Euro 50 Group Roundtable: June 11-12 2003

"Monetary and Financial Cooperation in Asia :
Lessons of the European Achievements"

Sponsored by
The Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance, Japan
Morgan Stanley Japan
and the Bond Market Association

-- Tokyo



Draft Agenda

Proceedings

Roundtable Sponsors

"A Framework For European Securitisation"
The Bond Market Association

"First Lessons of the European Monetary Union"
Eric Chaney
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

"Financial Cooperation in East Asia and Japan's Role"
Junichi Goto
Professor of Economics, Kobe University

"Financial Market Development in East Asia"
Speech by Haruhiko Kuroda
Special Adviser to the Cabinet, Government of Japan
--appendix

"Regional Monetary and Financial Cooperation in Asia"
Takatoshi Ito
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

"Lessons of Euro Area for Asia"
Jim O Neill
Head of Global Economic Research, Goldman Sachs

"The Foundations of Monetary Union"
Richard Portes
London Business School, EHESS and CEPR

Remark on the Asian Bond Fund
Mr. Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala
Deputy Governor of the Bank of Thailand

"Regional Monetary and Financial Cooperation in Asia"
Mr. Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala
Deputy Governor of the Bank of Thailand

The speech by Toshihiko Fukui, the Governor of Bank of Japan

"Lessons of the Euro for Asia"
Professor Norbert Walter
Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank

"Progress of Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia"
Hiroshi Watanabe