THE 61st INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Berlin, Germany
15-19 March 2006

International Trade and Finance
Friday 08h30 - 10h30

Chair: Michael Frenkel, WHU Koblenz

Hiroya Akiba, Yukihiro Iida, and Yoshirhiro Kitamura, Waseda University, Managed Floating as a De Facto Exchange Rate Regime

Alexei G. Orlov, Radford University, Can Capital Controls Reduce the High-Frequency Volatility of Exchange Rates?

Bichaka Fayissa Middle Tennessee State University and Paulos Gutema Negari, Addis Ababa University, Dependency Ratio and the Economic Growth Puzzle in Sub-Saharan Africa

Evangelia Papadaki, International Trade Canada, Marcel Merette, University of Ottawa, Jorge Hernandez, and Yu Lan, International Trade Canada, Prospects of a Canada-U.S. Customs Union: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Assessment

Discussants: Bichaka Fayissa, Middle Tennesee State University, Evangelia Papadaki, International Trade Canada, and Fabio Sdogati, Politecnico Di Milano