2013 Annual Monetary Trade Conference

The Global Interdependence Center and LeBow College of Business present the 31st Annual Monetary Trade Conference: Fixing the Banking System for Good.

Registration is required. Due to the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, no walk-ins will be allowed. All interested parties must register by April 14th.

Agenda: 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration and Coffee 9 – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome

• Herb Taylor, Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Board Member of the Global Interdependence Center • George Tsetsekos, Dean Emeritus of LeBow College of Business and Chair of the Global Interdependence Center

9:15 – 9:45 a.m. • David Kotok, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Cumberland Advisors and GIC Vice Chair of Central Banking Series

9:45 – 10 a.m. | Audience Q/A

10 – 10:45 a.m. | “The Chicago Plan Revisited” • Michael Kumhof, Deputy Division Chief, Modeling Unit, Research Department, International Monetary Fund

10:45 – 11:30 a.m. | “Limited Purpose Banking” • Laurence Kotlikoff, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University

11:30 –11:45 a.m. | Discussion and Audience Q/A

11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Lunch

1 – 1:45 p.m. | Implications for Global Development • Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University (speaking via video teleconference)

1:45 – 2 p.m. | Audience Q/A

2 – 2:30 p.m. | Implications for the Banking System and Capital Markets • Domenic D’Ginto, Senior Vice President, PNC Bank and GIC Board Member • William Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, NFIB and Chairman, Liberty Bell Bank

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. | “Money and Debt: Radical Solutions to the Challenge of Deleveraging” • Lord Adair Turner, Former Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (speaking via video teleconference)

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Audience Q/A 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:15 p.m. | A Free Market Perspective • William Poole, Former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and recipient of GIC Frederick Heldring Award

4:15 – 4:30 p.m. | Audience Q/A

4:30 – 5 p.m. | “Concluding Comments: Social Implications” • Uli Kortsch, President of Global Partners Investments