Debt, Risk and the Role of Government: The Bond Market in a Wider Context

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Welcome and Introduction
 
Dr Martin Parkinson
Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group, The Treasury

Session 1: The Government as a Risk Manager
 
Chair: Dr Martin Parkinson
Prof Ian Harper
Sydney Myers Professor of Commerce and Business Administration, Melbourne Business School 
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Dr Ric Simes
Chief Economist, ICAP
Dr Nick Gruen
Chief Executive Officer, Lateral Economics Consulting 
John Fallon
Principal, Network Economics Consulting Group 
Mr David Borthwick
Executive Coordinator, Economic, Industry and Resources Group, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

SESSION II: The Australian Capital Market without Commonwealth Government Securities
 
Chair: Dr Phil Lowe 
Head of Domestic Markets, Reserve Bank of Australia
Professor Paul Kofman
Professor of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne 
Professor Gordon de Brouwer 
Executive Director, Australia Japan Research Centre, ANU
Paul Bide
Executive Director, Debt Markets, Macquarie Bank
Mr Robert Elstone
Managing Director and CEO, SFE (Sydney Futures Exchange) Corporation

SESSION III: Risk Management without Commonwealth Government Securities
 
Chair: Mr John Lockhart 
Director, E-Trading, ICAP
Mr Warren Bird
Head, Fixed Interest and Foreign Exchange, Colonial First State 
Mr David Robinson 
Director, Risk Analytics and Research Group, Ernst and Young 
Mr Wayne Jarman
CEO NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp)
Professor Rob Brooks
Head, Research Development Unit, Faculty of Business, RMIT University

SESSION IV: The Government as an Owner of Assets
 
Chair: Dr Ian Watt
Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Finance and Administration
 
Dr Vince FitzGerald 
Allen Consulting Group 
Mr Ross Gittins
Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald
Dr David Chessell 
Director, Access Economics
 

SESSION V: Discussion and Summing Up

Professor Bob Gregory
Head, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Ms Laura Tingle
Australian Financial Review
 


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