Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Eighth HKIMR Summer Workshop: Recent Developments on Exchange Rate Economics

 

17 August 2010 (Tuesday)

 

 


08:30 - 09:00 Registration and Welcoming coffee

09:00 - 09:50 Global Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, and Currency Returns

by Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin

Discussant: David Cook, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

09:50 - 10:40 Exchange Rate Dynamics Under Alternative Optimal Interest Rate Rules

by Yin-Wong Cheung, UC Santa Cruz

Discussant: James Yetman, Bank for International Settlements

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50 Exchange Rate Policy and LDC Foreign Borrowing

by Vivian Zhanwei Yue, New York University

Discussant : Jenny Xu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

11:50 – 12:40 Exchange Rate Dynamics, Expectations, and Monetary Policy Fundamentals

by Qianying Chen, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Discussant : Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington