The ECB and Its Watchers XIX

March 14, 2018
Hörsaalzentrum, Campus Westend
Goethe University Frankfurt (map)


Program

8:30 – 8:55

Registration and Coffee

8:55 – 9:00

Welcome
Volker Wieland (Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability) (speech)

9:00 – 9:40

President's Address
Mario Draghi
(President of the European Central Bank) (speech)

9:45 – 11:15

Debate 1: Assessment of Quantitative Easing and Challenges of Policy Normalization

Chair: Volker Wieland (Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability)

Speakers:

Peter Praet (Member of the Executive Board of the ECB) (speech)
Elga Bartsch (Morgan Stanley) (presentation)
Daniel Gros (Centre for European Policy Studies) (presentation)

Lead questions:

Ulrich Kater (Deka)
Claudia Broyer (Allianz SE)
Casper de Vries (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:15

Debate 2: The Pursuit of Financial Stability and Tasks for Monetary, Regulatory, and Macro-Prudential Policies

Chair: Luisa Lambertini (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Speakers:

Vítor Constâncio (European Central Bank) (speech)
Elena Carletti (Bocconi University) (presentation)
Poul Thomsen (International Monetary Fund) (speech)

Lead questions:

Frank Engels (Union Investment)
Natacha Valla (European Investment Bank)
Hermann Remsperger (Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability) (PDF)

13:15 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Debate 3: The Sustainability of European Monetary Union and Institutional Reform

Chair: Michael Binder (Goethe University)

Speakers:

Francois Villeroy de Galhau (Banque de France) (presentation)
Varadarajan V. Chari (University of Minnesota) (presentation)
Lars Feld (German Council of Economic Experts) (presentation)

Lead questions:

Ester Faia (Goethe University)
Dirk Schumacher (Natixis)
David Marsh (OMFIF)

16:00 – 16:10

Closing Remarks