Racing for Economic Leadership: EU and US Perspectives

Michala Marcussen, SUERF Vice President I Société Générale

Jan Svejnar, Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia I SIPA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I De Nederlandsche Bank