25th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference.

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The 25th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference, "International Finance in the Global Markets," took place in Tokyo on December 16-17. This meeting was sponsored jointly by the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, NBER, the Tokyo Center for Economic Research, the Center for Advanced Research in Finance, and the Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy. Organizers Kosuke Aoki and Shin-ichi Fukuda of the Tokyo University; Takeo Hoshi of Stanford University and NBER; and Takashi Kano of Hitotsubashi University chose these papers to discuss:

* Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics, "Contagious Sudden Stops"

* Hiro Ito, Portland State University, and Masahiro Kawai, University of Tokyo, "Trade Invoicing in the Japanese Yen and the Deutsche Mark in the 1980s and 90s: Lessons for Renminbi Internationalization"

* Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago; Andrew Rose, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER; and Tomasz Wieladek, Bank of England, "Does Government Intervention Affect Banking Globalization?" (NBER Working Paper No. 21981)

* Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER, "Macroprudential Policy under High Capital Mobility: Policy Implications from an Academic Perspective" (NBER Working Paper No. 20951)

* Vahagn Galstyan, Philip...