Schedule

08.30 - 08.45	Introduction to the Seminar	Prof. Ingo Walter, New York University
08.45 - 10.00	A Macroeconomic Framework for Assessing Emerging-Market Risk	Prof. Ingo Walter
10.00 - 10.20	Coffee break
10.20 - 12.00	Constructing Political-Economic Country Scenarios	Prof. Ingo Walter
12.00 - 1.30	Lunch
1.30 - 2.30	Alternative Risk-Tracking Approaches
2.30 - 3.30	Quantifying Sovereign Credit Risk	Mr. Anthony Morris, New York University and SBC Warburg Dillon Read & Co.
3.30 - 3.50	Coffee break
3.50 - 4.30	Country Risk, Currency Crises and Exchange Rate Forecasting in an Emerging Market Context	Prof. Richard Levich, New York University
4.30 - 6.00	A Practitioner’s Perspective on Emerging Market Risk Assessment	Dr. Larry Hays, J.P. Morgan & Co.

08.30 - 12.00	Emerging Market Equities	Prof. Roy C. Smith
[TO BE ADDED]
12.00 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:00	Introducing Emerging Market Debt	Prof. Edward I. Altman, New York University
2:00 - 3:00	Credit Scoring Models Applied to Emerging Market Debt Securities
3:00 - 3:20	Coffee break
3:20 - 3:45	Investment Implications of Emerging Market Models	Prof. Edward I. Altman
3:45 - 4:30	Default Rates on Bond Rating Equivalents	Prof. Edward I. Altman
4:30 - 5:00	Emerging Market Credit Derivatives And Credit Portfolio Techniques	Prof. Edward I. Altman

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