Pierre-Richard Agénor - Lectures

Conference Presentations

Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Financial Liberalization (in French)

Keynote presentation made at the IFID conference on financial liberalization,
Tunis, Tunisia, October 10-11, 2001, October '01
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Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility(by Robert Flood and Nancy Marion)

Comments given in response to presentation given at the Brookings Institution
Trade Forum 2001: Globalization: Issues and Implications, May 10-11, 2001,Washington, DC May 2001
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Benefits and Costs of International Financial Integration: Theory and Facts

Presentation at the ECCB training conference entitled "FinancialGlobalisation: The Issues and Challenges for Small States," Saint Kitts, March 27-28, 2001 September 2001
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Macroeconomic Causes of Banking Crises

Keynote Speech at the Washington Area Finance Association Conference, Catholic University, November 10, 2000 November 2000
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The Causes of Banking Crises: What do we know?

Plenary Presentation at the 4th Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis, University of Crete, May 25-28, 2000. Click here for link to Crete conference website May 2000
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Course Presentations

Lecture Notes on The Economics of Adjustment and Growth

• Chapter 1 - Consumption, Saving, and Investment
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• Chapter 2 -The Financial System, Money Demand, and Monetary policy
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• Chapter 3 - Fiscal Deficits, Public Debt, and the Current Account
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• Chapter 4 - Exchange Rate Regimes
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• Chapter 5 - Inflation and Disinflation
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• Chapter 6 - Capital Inflows: Causes and Policy Responses
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• Chapter 7 - Currency Crises and Financial Volatility
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• Chapter 8 - Aggregate Accounts, Budget Constraints, and Model Consistency
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• Chapter 9 - Policy Tools for Macroeconomic Analysis
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• Chapter 10 - Growth, Poverty, and Income Distribution: Some Basic Facts
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• Chapter 11 - Growth and Technological Progress: The Solow-Swan Model
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• Chapter 12 - Knowledge, Human Capital and Endogenous Growth
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• Chapter 13 -The Determinants of Economic Growth: An Empirical Overview
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• Chapter 14 - Structural Adjustment: Agriculture, Trade and the Labor Market
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• Chapter 15 - Fiscal and Financial Sector Reforms
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• Chapter 16 - Adjustment and External Debt in Low-Income Countries
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• Chapter 17 - Sequencing, Gradualism, and the Political Economy of Adjustment
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Lecture Notes on Development Macroeconomics

• Chapter 1 - Scope of Development Macroeconomics
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• Chapter 2 -Aggregate Accounts, Production, and Market Structure
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• Chapter 3 - Behavioral Functions
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• Chapter 4 - Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations
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• Chapter 5 - Fiscal Deficits, Public Solvency, and the Macroeconomy
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• Chapter 6 - Financial Markets, Capital Mobility, and Monetary Policy
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• Chapter 7 - Exchange-Rate Regimes: Evidence and Credibility Aspects
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• Chapter 8 - Exchange-Rate Management: Contractionary Devaluation and Real-Exchange-Rate Rules
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• Chapter 9 - Stabilization and the Labor Market
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• Chapter 10 - An Overview of Stabilization Programs
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• Chapter 11 - Inflation and Short-Run Dynamics
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• Chapter 12 - Analytical Issues in Disinflation Programs
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• Chapter 13 -Empirical Models of Stabilization
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• Chapter 14 - The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
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• Chapter 15 - Capital Inflows: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Responses
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• Chapter 16 - Speculative Attacks and Exchange-Rate Crises
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• Chapter 17 - Macroeconomic Policies and Long-Term Growth
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• Chapter 18 - Trade, Financial, and Exchange Market Reforms
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• Chapter 19 - The Political Economy of Stabilization and Adjustment
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• Chapter 20 - Sequencing and Speed of Reforms
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