Emerging and Frontier Markets: Capital Flows, Resiliency, Risks, and Growth.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Emerging and Frontier Markets: Capital Flows, Resiliency, Risks, and Growth took place May 9-10 in Cartagena, Colombia. Research Associates Mark A. Aguiar of Princeton University and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan of the University of Maryland, and Cristina Arellano of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, organized the meeting, which was supported by the NBER, the Latin American Reserve Fund, and Banco de la Republica (the central bank of Colombia). These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Enrique G. Mendoza, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, and Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California, "Global Demand for Financial Assets, Falling Real Interest Rates and Macroeconomic Instability"

* Manuel Amador, University of Minnesota and NBER, and Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Bank Runs, Fragility, and Credit Easing" (NBER Working Paper 29397)

* Haonan Zhou, Princeton University, "Open Economy, Redistribution, and the Aggregate Impact of External Shocks"

* Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics, "Optimal Exchange Rate Policy"

* Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis and NBER; Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia; and Bryan Hardy, Bank for International Settlements, "Economic Stabilizers in Emerging Markets: The Case for Trade Credit"

* Bryan Hardy; Karen K. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; and Xiang Fang, University of Hong Kong, "Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters"

* Liliana Varela, London School...