
SUERF • CGEG|COLUMBIA|SIPA • EIB • SOCIETE GENERALE Conference
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 |
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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? |
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Keynote Addresses Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission |
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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 Boris Vujcic, Governor, Central Bank of Croatia |
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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. |
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Keynote Addresses
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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 |
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13:30 | Lunch |
14:15 | SESSION 3 - COMPETING CURRENCIES |
Fireside Chat on the role of the UK in the transatlantic economy
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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 Jean-Pierre Danthine, President of the Board of directors, PSE Romain Ranciere, Chair, Department of Economics, University of Southern California |
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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 |
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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 Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Chief Economist, European Investment Fund Markus Rodlauer, Head of Economic and Market, ESM |
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17:30 | Closing Remarks |
Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I De Nederlandsche Bank |
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