Economists and finance experts from over 30 countries attended the 78th International Atlantic Economic Conference held in Savannah, Georgia, October 12-15, 2014. Follow the links below to view photos taken throughout the conference and videos of the highlighted events. Special thanks to all who attended!
- Please click HERE to view the Savannah photos page.
- Please click HERE to view the Savannah videos page.
- Please click HERE to view the Savannah web program.
Highlights Included:
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Presidential Address
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt is Director of Research at the World Bank. She has been in different divisions of the Research Group, advising on financial and private sector development issues. She also created the World Bank’s Global Financial Development Report and directed issues on Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance (2013), and Financial Inclusion (2014). Her research has focused on links between financial development, firm performance, and economic development. Banking crises, financial regulation, access to financial services, including SME finance, are also areas of interest.
John Joseph Wallis, 2014 William S. Vickrey Address
John Joseph Wallis is a Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Wallis is an economic historian who specializes in the public finance of American governments, constitutional development, and more generally on the institutional development of governments and economies. Throughout his career, most of his work has been in American history, but over the last decade he has begun working on contemporary development problems around the world.
“Too Big To Fail” Plenary Symposium:
Chair: Richard Herring is Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He is a fellow of the Financial Economist Roundtable and has served on the editorial board of numerous financial organizations.
Nicola Cetorelli is Assistant Vice President in Financial Intermediation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a Wharton Financial Institutions Center fellow. Prior to joining the New York Fed, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research focuses on industrial organization, corporate finance characteristics of the banking industry and relationships with real economic activity.
Mark Flannery, Eminent Scholar Chair in Finance at the University of Florida, has also served on numerous regulatory boards and associations, including the advisory committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the New York Fed’s Financial Advisory Roundtable, and the FDIC Center for Financial Research. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina, and as a visiting professor at the London Business School.
Sir Paul Tucker is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He was Deputy Governor at the Bank of England from 2009 to 2013, having joined the bank in 1980. During his thirty years at the Bank of England, he managed the areas responsible for monetary policy strategy, market operations, and financial stability.
James Wigand is a partner at the financial advisory services firm of Millstein & Company. Prior to assuming this position Mr. Wigand served as the first Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Office of Complex Financial Institutions (OCFI) and as a senior advisor to the Chairman, FDIC.The OCFI was created to better position the FDIC to carry out its new resolution responsibilities for systematically important financial institutions under the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Best Undergraduate Paper Competition Finalist
Levi Boxell, Taylor University, Beyond In-Sample Significance: Using k-fold cross-validation to examine the out sample significance and specifications of the gravity model of bilateral trade
Michael Murphy O’Reilly, Nottingham Trent University, The negative impact of being landlocked on trade: An empirical analysis of Sub Saharan Africa
Mayia Samuilik, Lazarski University, The link between the exchange rate regime and the banking, currency and debt crises occurrence
Christo Tarazi, Hartwick College, The effect of insurance coverage on healthcare expenditures