Programme
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
07:45 Registration and welcome breakfast
08:15 Welcome and opening remarks
Michala Marcussen, SUERF Vice President I Société Générale
Jan Svejnar, Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia I SIPA
08:30 SESSION 1 - HOW TO COPE WITH CYCLICAL DOWNTURN? THE QUEST FOR POLICY SCOPE
What role for fiscal vs monetary policy? Which has more scope left? How to combine them?
Keynote Addresses
Klaas Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank
Speech
Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
Presentation M. Buti
09:40 Panel 1 - How to cope with cyclical downturn? The quest for policy scope
Chair: Ernest Gnan, SUERF Secretary General I Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Patricia Mosser, Founding Director, Initiative on Central Banking, Columbia University
Angel Ubide, Managing Director, Citadel LLC
Presentation
Boris Vujcic, Governor, Central Bank of Croatia
Presentation
10:50 Coffee
11:20 SESSION 2 - TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND DIGITALIZATION: THE ULTIMATE BATTLEGROUND
Innovation, digitalization and economic transformation. Impact of technology leadership on the real economy. Laggards and leaders, constraints and social implications.
Keynote Addresses
Lars Rohde, Governor, Danmarks Nationalbank
Speech
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman, Société Générale
12:15 Panel 2 - Technological change and digitalization: the ultimate battleground
Chair: Debora Revoltella, Director of the Economics Department, European Investment Bank I SUERF
Presentation of key results of the EIB survey on “Europe vs US digitalisation”
Susan Athey, Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Peterson Institute for International Economics
13:30Lunch
14:15SESSION 3 - COMPETING CURRENCIES
Fireside Chat on the role of the UK in the transatlantic economy
Chair: Michala Marcussen, SUERF Vice President I Société Générale
Andrew McDowell, Vice President, European Investment Bank
Edward Price, Head of Economic & Financial Sector Policy, Department for International Trade| British Consulate-General
Chair: Jan Svejnar, Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia I SIPA
Can the Euro challenge the USD"s leading global role? Or rather the renminbi?
Stijn Claessens, Head of Financial Stability Policy, Bank for International Settelments
Presentation
Jean-Pierre Danthine, President of the Board of directors, PSE
Presentation
Romain Ranciere, Chair, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
Presentation
16:00 Coffee
16:20 SESSION 4 - DEBT VS EQUITY: WHERE IS THE OPTIMAL BALANCE?
We have seen a number of blue-chip companies simply “hollowed out” through leverage and equity buybacks. This not only raises concerns from a financial stability point of view, but is also the political arena are increasingly debating tax treatment of debt vs equity, etc
Chair: Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I De Nederlandsche Bank
Patrick Bolton, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Olivier Garnier, Director General for Economics and International, Banque de France
Presentation
Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Chief Economist, European Investment Fund
Presentation
Markus Rodlauer, Head of Economic and Market, ESM
17:30 Closing Remarks
Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I De Nederlandsche Bank
Programme
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
07:45 Registration and welcome breakfast
