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Sovereign Debt and Latin America: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

A Conference of the Social Science History Institute*
Stanford University

FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 2003

Graham Stuart Lounge
Encina West, 4th Floor



Hotel Information Conference Venue

Friday, February 28th

8:45 – 9:15 am	Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 9:30 am	Introduction and Opening Remarks
9:30 – 10:45 am	Andrew Rose (Berkeley, Haas School of Business) “One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade” “A Gravity Model of Sovereign Lending: Trade, Default, and Credit” Discussant: Mark Wright (Stanford, Economics)
10:45 – 12:00	Michael Tomz (Stanford, Political Science) “Does the Threat of Trade Sanctions Motivate Countries to Repay?” Discussant: Alan Taylor (UC Davis, Economics)
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm	Yishay Yafeh (Montreal & Hebrew University, Economics) “The Corporation of Foreign Bondholders” Discussant: Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley, Economics and Political Science)
2:15 – 3:30 pm	Rose Razaghian (Yale, Political Science) “The Impact of Institutions: Establishing Financial Credibility in Ante-Bellum United States” Discussant: Gavin Wright (Stanford, Economics)
3:30 – 3:45 pm	Coffee
3:45 – 5:00 pm	Peter Henry (Stanford, Graduate School of Business) “Debt Relief: What Do the Markets Think?” Discussant: Nick Hope (Stanford, Center for Research on Economic Development)
7:00 pm	Conference Dinner MacArthur Park, 27 University Ave, Palo Alto

Saturday, March 1st

9:00 – 9:30 am	Breakfast
9:30 – 10:45 am	Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna, Economics) “Comrades in Bonds: The Subsidized Sale of Confederate War Debt to British Leaders.” Discussant: Jeremy Bulow (Stanford, Graduate School of Business)
10:45 – 12:00	Layna Mosley (Notre Dame, Political Science) “Global Capital and National Governments ” Discussant: Steve Krasner (Stanford, Political Science)
12:00 – 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 pm	Niall Ferguson (New York University & Oxford, Financial History) “Globalization with Gunboats: The Costs and Benefits the British Empire Revisited” Discussant: Charles Lipson (Chicago, Political Science)
2:30 – 2:45 pm	Closing Discussion

* This conference was made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Hotel Information

The conference hotel is the Sheraton Palo Alto, right across from the Stanford campus. The address is 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA 94301, and the phone number is (650) 328-2800. For more information about the hotel, please click here.

Conference Venue

The conference will take place in the Graham Stuart room on the 4th floor of Encina Hall, West wing. Encina Hall is located at the intersection of Serra and Galvez streets. To see the exact location of the building, click here: Encina Hall Location. For a map of the entire Stanford campus, click here: Stanford Campus .

Conference Contact:

Mike Tomz
tomz@stanford.edu
(650) 725-4031