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TOBIN TAX
CONFERENCE
DATE: Thursday, January 16, 2003
LOCATION: Washington,
DC (Carnegie Conference Center, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW)
Contact:
Jamie Baker, jbaker@new-rules.org
Organized by
the coalition 'New Rules for Global Finance' Supported by the MOTT Foundation
The New Rules for Global Finance Coalition is
sponsoring a conference on the Tobin Tax in Washington DC on Thursday January
16. There is at present no clear consensus in the NGO community concerned with
global finance on the desirability and practicality of the Tobin Tax. There are
also questions concerning whether it can be adopted, The purpose of this
conference is to educate ourselves the NGO community, researchers and
activists - on the Tobin Tax and to reach our own conclusions on the wisdom of
the proposal.
The conference will deal with the macro issues of the Tobin Tax. And it
will deal with three micro issues: will it reduce international financial
instability, what are the implementation issues, and what are the revenue
implications of the tax. We will discuss the politics of the Tobin tax and
will conclude the conference with a wrap up session covering the areas of
consensus and the areas of disagreement.
Representatives of NGOs, activists, researchers
and other interested people are welcome! Register as soon as possible and ask
for your copy of the 10 page policy memos which each speaker will be asked to
prepare and which will be distributed by Email before the conference.
New Rules for Global Finance is an informal
coalition of human rights, labor, environmental, development and religious
organizations, activists, and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global
financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty
and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment
TOBIN TAX CONFERENCE AGENDA
Thursday January 16, 2003
8:30 9:15
Registration and continental breakfast
9:15
9:30
Welcome - Jim Weaver, American University
9.30
10.45
Session 1: The Tobin Tax
The
Case for the Tobin Tax - Tom
Palley, Open Society Institute
The
Case Against the Tobin Tax - Randall
Dodd, Derivatives Study Center
10.45
11.00
Morning break
11:00
12:45
Session 2: Can currency transaction taxes stabilize financial markets?
How
A Tobin Tax Could Stabilize Markets - Bruno Jetin, ATTAC
France
Securities
Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets - Karl Habermeier and Andrei
Kirilenko, IMF
What The Tobin Tax Can Do and What It Cannot Do - Ilene Grabel, Denver University
12.45
1.45
Lunch
1.45
3:30
Session 3: Implementing Currency
Transaction Taxes
Is
a Tobin Tax Enforcable? - Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy
Research
Overcoming
the Tobin Taxs Implementation Problems: Tax Capital, Not Currencies -
Howell Zee, IMF
Applying
a Securities Transactions Tax to the US: Design Issues, Market Impact, Revenue
Estimates - Bob Pollin,
University of Massachusetts
3:30
3:45
Afternoon break
4:00 5:00
Session 4: A View From the South
Understanding
the Silence Amid Turmoil: The Tobin Tax and East Asia - Prof
Young Chul Kim, Keimyung University, Korea
5:00 5:30
Session 5: Closing Session
Where do we go from here? What were points of consensus and disagreement?
- Jo
Marie Griesgraber, OXFAM America, Chair, New Rules for Global Finance
5:30
Reception
To
view research papers prepared for this conference click here!
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