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Racing for Economic Leadership: EU and US Perspectives
Racing for Economic Leadership: EU and US Perspectives
Racing for Economic Leadership: EU and US Perspectives

SUERF • CGEG|COLUMBIA|SIPA • EIB • SOCIETE GENERALE Conference

Racing for Economic Leadership: EU and US Perspectives


Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Venue:
Société Générale"s U.S. Headquartes
245 Park Avenue (btw 46th & 47th Streets)
New York, NY 10167
Town Hall, 5th Floor

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. ButiPresentation 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
PresentationPresentation

Boris Vujcic, Governor, Central Bank of Croatia
PresentationPresentation

 
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
SpeechSpeech


Challenges of digitalisation for the banking industry
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman, Société Générale
SpeechSpeech

 
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

 
13:30 Lunch
14:15 SESSION 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
PresentationPresentation

Jean-Pierre Danthine, President of the Board of directors, PSE
PresentationPresentation

Romain Ranciere, Chair, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
PresentationPresentation

 
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
PresentationPresentation

Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Chief Economist, European Investment Fund
PresentationPresentation

Markus Rodlauer, Head of Economic and Market, ESM

 
17:30 Closing Remarks

Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I De Nederlandsche Bank

 


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