The 7th edition of the Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, known as "DebtCon," will be hosted on PSE's campus (48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris) from May 29th to May 31st.
29-31 MAY | PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
DAY 1: Wednesday 29th May 2024
Natalie A. Jaresko, EY-Parthenon Turnaround Strategy and Restructuring
David Ndii, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Kenya
Vera Songwe, Chair and Founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF)
Kemi Adeosun, DashMe Foundation, former Finance Minister of Nigeria
Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, EIB
Manuela Francisco, Global Director Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment at the World Bank
MORNING
- 9:30-10:00 - Welcome & Coffee
- 10:00-11.30 - Opening Panel: A Tribute to Daniel Cohen
- 11:40- 13:10 - Parallel Sessions 1
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Debt for nature swaps
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The challenge of reducing debt
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China as a creditor
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- 13:10-14:00 - Lunch Break
AFTERNOON
- 14:00-15:30 - Panel 2: Growth after crises
- 15:40-17:10 - Parallel Sessions 2
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Book Presentation
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Monetary and fiscal interaction
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Bilateral lending
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- 17:10-17:30 - Coffee Break
- 17:30-19:00 - Panel 3: Debt sustainability in a warming world: new instruments?
- 19:00 - 21:00 - Cocktail & Dinner Reception at PSE
DAY 2: Thursday 30th May 2024
Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Anaya, Former Minister of Finance of Mexico
Elena Duggar, Moody's Chief Credit Officer for the Americas
Martin Guzman, Professor, Columbia University SIPA
Ernest Addison, Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana
Ishac Diwan, Director of Research, Finance for Development Lab, Paris School of Economics
MORNING
- 8:00-9:30 - Emerging scholars' session
- 9:40-11:10 - Parallel Sessions 3
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Human rights and debt
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State contingent debt instruments
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Dealing with diverse creditors
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- 11:10-11:30 - Coffee Break
- 11:30-13:00 - Parallel Sessions 4
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Book presentation: “The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy.”
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Climate
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Enforcement
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- 13:00-13:45 - Lunch Break
AFTERNOON
- BANQUE DE FRANCE SESSIONS
- 14:30-16:00 - Panel 4: Solvency and liquidity at high nominal rates
- 16:30-17:30 - In conversation with Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - A dialogue with Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Odile Renaud Basso, EBRD
Ugo Panizza, Geneva Graduate Institute
DAY 3: Friday 31st May 2024
Sean Hagan, Georgetown/Sciences Po
Brad Setser, Brookings Institution
William Roos, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Development, Vice-president of the Club de Paris
Michel Aubenas, Blackrock
Mark Flanagan, Deputy Director, SPR, IMF
Layna Mosley, Princeton University
Ye Yu, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
MORNING
- 8:00-9:30 - Welcome & Coffee
- 8:00 - 9:30 - Parallel Sessions 5
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Local currency financing
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Coordination and comparability in restructurings
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Debt and taxes
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- 9:40-11:10 - Panel 6: Do we need an integrated sovereign debt restructuring framework?
- 11:10-11:30 - Coffee Break
- 11:30-13:00 - Parallel Sessions 6
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Debt restructuring history
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Domestic debt and defaults
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The politics and economics of sustainability
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- 13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break
AFTERNOON
- 14:00-15:30 - Closing Panel, 7: Geopolitics of
Sovereign Debt - 15:30-16:00 - Closing Session
