Economic Crisis Then and Now: A Comparison of Responses to the Mexican Crisis of 1994 and the Argentine Crisis of 2001

Panelists:

Joyce Chang
JP Morgan

Lacey Gallagher
Credit Suisse First Boston

Shari Spiegel
Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

This session will examine responses to Mexico's 1994 and Argentina's 2001 economic crises, in terms of what were the most effective policies of the governments involved, as well as the international financial community, together with the United States and other countries.

Joyce Chang is Managing Director and Global Head of Emerging Markets Research for JP Morgan. Previously, she was Managing Director and Head of the International Fixed Income Research Department for Chase Securities, where she oversaw fixed income research covering countries and corporations in Latin America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Chase Securities, Ms. Chang was Managing Director of the International Emerging Markets Fixed Income Research Department at Merrill Lynch.

Lacey Gallagher is Director of Emerging Markets Research at Credit Suisse First Boston. She and her New York-based team focus on economic and market analysis of Latin America, and have been ranked by Institutional Investor and other publications. Prior to joining CSFB in March 2000, she was Director of Latin America Sovereign Ratings at Standard & Poor’s. She headed the team responsible for assigning and maintaining ratings on eighteen sovereigns in Latin America. Prior to joining S&P, Ms. Gallagher was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Asian Development Bank in Manila. She holds a Masters in Public and International Affairs with a concentration in Development Economics from Princeton University and a B.A. degree from Wellesley College.

Shari Spiegel joined the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) in March of 2002. Ms. Spiegel is responsible for the overall development of IPD. She is involved in substantive issues on all IPD task forces and country forums and is the co-Director of IPD‘s task force and research program on Sovereign Debt Management. She is an adjunct professor in the Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Ms. Spiegel joined IPD from Lazard Asset Management, where she was a Director of Lazard LLC and the senior fixed income portfolio manager in charge of emerging market debt and foreign exchange. Prior to joining Lazard in 1995, Ms. Spiegel worked in Hungary, where she was one of the founders and CEO of Budapest Investment Management Company (a subsidiary of Budapest Bank), which launched the first domestic investment funds in Hungary. Before moving to Hungary, Ms. Spiegel worked at Citibank and Drexel Burnham Lambert in fixed income research, cross-currency interest-rate-swap trading, and credit research. Ms. Spiegel has a Master of Economics from Princeton University and a BA in applied mathematics and economics from Northwestern University.

When: Friday, October 3 4:30pm
Where: Room 9206
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(@34th Street)

To reserve, send e-mail to bildner@gc.cuny.edu or leave message at (212) 817-2096

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The Empty ATM - PBS special on Argentine Crisis of 2001