8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:30 Welcome address
Governor Erkki Liikanen (Bank of Finland) Read opening remarks
9:30-10:30 Keynote address
Chair: Professor Pekka Sutela (Lappeenranta University of Technology)
Professor Gérard Roland (University of California, Berkeley): The Evolution of Postcommunist Economic Systems Download presentation
10:30-11.00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Policy Panel: Central banking in emerging markets
Chair: Head of Research Iikka Korhonen (Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition)
Deputy Governor Tiago Berriel (Central Bank of Brazil) Download presentation
Deputy Director of Monetary Policy Andrey Lipin (Bank of Russia) Download presentation
Head of Emerging Markets Christian Upper (Bank for International Settlements) Download presentation
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Banking in emerging markets
Chair: Senior Adviser Laura Solanko (Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition)
Professor Viral Acharya (New York University): Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability During a Crisis: Evidence from an Emerging Market (with Nirupama Kulkarni) Download presentation
Professor Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University and Bank of Finland): Political Pluralism and Innovation (with Haitian Lu, Tuomas Takalo and Mingming Zhou) Download presentation
Senior Adviser Zuzana Fungáčová (Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition): Trusting Banks in Emerging Markets (with Laurent Weill) Download presentation
Senior Research Fellow Andrei Vernikov (Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences): Government banking in Russia: A challenge to conventional wisdom? Download presentation
15:15-15.45 Coffee break
15:45-16:45 Keynote address
Chair: Member of the Board Seppo Honkapohja (Bank of Finland)
Professor Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University): The Sustainability of China's Growth