TIME

ACTIVITY

Master of Ceremonies
TERESO TULLAO, JR.
De La Salle University-Manila

08:00 AM

Registration

09:00 AM

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Remarks
HON. AMANDO M. TETANGCO, JR.
Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Opening Remarks
FERNANDO T. ALDABA
President, Philippine Economic Society

09:30 AM

Keynote Address

Introduction
WINFRED VILLAMIL
Vice President, Philippine Economic Society

AMB. CESAR BAUTISTA
National Competitiveness Council
Keynote Address

10:00 AM

Coffee Break

10:15 AM

Plenary Session 1

Competitiveness, Growth and Equity

Chair
MYRNA AUSTRIA
De La Salle University-Manila

Panelists
ERIC LE BORGNE
World Bank Philippines
Catalysts and Constraints to Philippine Competitiveness

SHIGEYUKI ABE
Doshisha University
Philippine Competitiveness vis-a-vis East Asian Integration

RAUL FABELLA
University of the Philippines School of Economics
Regulation through Competition & Entry in Weak States

11:45 AM

Lunch hosted by
Freidrich Naumann Foundation

Introduction
WINFRED VILLAMIL
Vice President, Philippine Economic Society

Luncheon Speaker
SIEGFRIED HERZOG
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Competitiveness - some lessons from Germany

01:00 PM

Parallel Panels - Set A

A-1 Strengthening Institutions 1

Chair
MELY PARAISO
Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Panelists
ROMEO BERNARDO
Lazaro, Bernardo, Tiu & Associates
MARIE-CHRISTINE TANG
Lazaro, Bernardo, Tiu & Associates
The Political Economy of Reform Under the Ramos Administration (1992-1998)

TOBY MONSOD
University of the Philippines School of Economics
Government Bureaucracies & Human Development: Country & Cross-Country Evidence

EPICTETUS PATALIHUG
University of the Philippines College of Business Administration
The Effect of Unemployment on Crime

A-2 Meeting Globalization’s Challenges

Chair
JOSEF YAP
Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Meeting Globalization’s Challenges: The Role of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Panelists
ERLINDA MEDALLA
Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Rules of Origin: Regimes in East Asia & Recommendations for Best Practice

MARI-LEN REYES-MACASAQUIT
Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Industrial Agglomeration in the Philippines

RAFAELITA ALDABA
ADB-ARIC Consultant, PIDS Fellow (on-leave)
SMEs in the Philippine Manufacturing Industry & Globalization: Meeting the Development Challenges

A-3 Health, Education and Inclusive Growth A

Chair
ROUSELLE LAVADO
Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Panelists
ALELI KRAFT
University of the Philippines School of Economics
Insurance Access Interventions & Delays in Health Seeking

HYUN SON
Asian Development Bank
Simulation of Impacts of Cash Transfers for School-Age Children on Poverty & School Attendance in the Philippines

CLARENCE PASCUAL
Labor Education & Research Network
Industry Churning, the Labor Market, & Workers’ Welfare

A-4 Health, Education & Inclusive Growth B

Chair
MELLY PARAISO
Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Panelists
TERESO TULLAO, JR./ JOHN PAOLO RIVERA
De la Salle University-Manila
The Impact of Temporary Labor Migration on the Demand for Education: Regional Similarities & Differences

MITZIE CONCHADA
De la Salle University-Manila
Revisiting the Situation of State Universities & Colleges in the Philippines

GERARDO SICAT/ MARIAN PANGANIBAN
University of the Philippines School of Economics
The Quality of High School Background as Determinants of Student Academic Performance in the University of the Philippines

A-5 Money, Banking & Finance

Chair
RACHEL REYES
De la Salle University-Manila

Panelists
VERONICA BAYANGOS/ DANVEE FLORO/ JOSELITO BASILIO/ ELOISA GRINDO
Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Quantifying the Inflation Expectations Channel in the Philippines: Some Preliminary Results

ANDREW ADRIAN PUA/ STEPHANIE CHAN
De la Salle University-Manila / Price Waterhouse Coopers Financial Advisors
Is the Special Purpose Vehicles Act Responsible for the Decline in the Non-performing Loan Ratios in the Philippines?

A-6 Empirical Methodologies

Chair
CARLOS ABAD SANTOS
Asia-Pacific Policy Center

Panelists
LAWRENCE DACUYCUY
De la Salle University-Manila
The empirical representations of the human capital earnings function: examining the merits of parametric, semiparametric & nonparametric modeling

LEONARDO LANZONA, JR.
Ateneo de Manila University
Human Capital, Population & Agricultural Productivity

SHARON PIZA
Asia-Pacific Policy Center
Measuring the True Impact of Progams