parallel sessions

Day 2: Thursday 30th May

EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION

Chair: François Bourguignon (PSE)

"Bargaining for Sovereignty: Explaining African Participation in the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments"
Nicolas Lippolis, Harry Verhoeven (Columbia University)
"Convenience yields in euros: investment mandates and conditional QE"
Giovanni Bonfanti (Columbia University)
"Food Crisis and Debt Distress"
Naomi Cohen, Diego de Sousa Rodrigues (Sciences Po)
"Sovereign debt sustainability, the carbon budget and climate damages"
Caterina Seghini (Swiss Finance Institute & University of Geneva)
"The Value of Government Debt with Domestic Arrears"
Nicola Benigni (University of Zurich)

R2-01

HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEBT

Daniel Bradlow (University of Pretoria), Surya Deva (UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Development) and Attiya Waris (UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights)
Penelope Hawkins (Debt and Development Finance Branch - UNCTAD)
Jason Braganza (AFRODAD)
Anne-Laure Kiechel (Global Sovereign Advisory)
Deborah Zandstra (Clifford Chance)
Mahinda Siriwardana (Secretary to the Treasury of Sri Lanka)

R2-21

STATE CONTINGENT DEBT INSTRUMENTS

Chair: Melissa Butler (White & Case)

"A Novel-Governance-Linked Bond: As a Pareto Improving Instrument for Debt Restructuring"
Nishan de Mel, Raj Prabu Rajakulendran (Verité Research)
"The state-contingent debt premium: evidence from French public bonds from the 1950s"
Gonçalo Pina (ESCP Business School), Kris J. Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
"Growth-indexed Bonds and Debt Distribution: Too Little, Too Costly"
Julien Acalin (IMF)
"State Contingent Debt Instruments"
Mark Walker (Lazard)

Collège Néerlandais

DEALING WITH DIVERSE CREDITORS

Chair: Rosa Lastra (Queen Mary Unviersity of London)

"Creditor Dispersion in Sovereign Debt Markets"
Clemens Graf vonLuckner (Sciences Po & Harvard University), Sebastien Horn (World Bank)
"Dealing with Heterogeneous Bondholders in Sovereign Debt Restructurings"
Stéphane Guibaud (Sciences Po), Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Modern China’s Three Sovereign Defaults and the Legal Endings"
Elya J. Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
"Sustainability of Lending Diversification of Sub-Saharan African Low-Income Countries"
Babacar Sene, Ismaila Souaré, Abdrahmane Wane (Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar)

R2-01

BOOK PRESENTATION: "The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law & Political Economy", By Jérôme Sgard

Chair: Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Collège Néerlandais

CLIMATE

Chair: Jesper Hanson (Dutch Ministry of Finance)

"Asymmetric Sovereign Risk: Implications for Climate Change Preparation"
Jorge M. Uribe (University of Barcelona) , Jose Gomez (University of New York- Lehman College), Oscar Valencia (Inter-American Development Bank)
"Are sovereign debts sustainable under energy transitions"
Stavros Zenios (Durham University & University of Cyprus), Veronica Mammetti (University of Sapienza), Giacomo Morelli (University of Sapienza):
"Sovereign Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing: chasing elusive sustainability"
Katya Gratcheva and Bryan Gurhy (IMF)
"The Green Transition and Public Finances"
Stéphane Dees (Banque de France), Caterina Seghini (Swiss Finance Institute & University of Geneva)

R2-21

ENFORCEMENT

Chair: Nicole Kearse (African Legal Support Facility)

"Investment treaty arbitration as forum for the enforcement of sovereign debt claims: insights from Gramercy v. Peru"
Livia Hinz (European University Institute)
"Information Clearinghouse: Market Implications of US Judicial Decisions"
Monica Widman (Princeton University)
"Law shaping the boundaries of sovereignty. The People's Republic of Congo confronts its creditors"
Benjamin Lemoine (CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure) and Olivier Vallée (GEG)
"Revisiting the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" Hypothesis: Bond Investors' Perceptions of Exchange Rate Policies of Emerging Markets"
Jana Grittersova (University of California, Riverside)

R2-01

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