The ECB and Its Watchers XXIV

March 20, 2024

Casino Festsaal
Campus Westend
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (map)


Program

08:30 – 09:30

Registration
09:30 – 09:45

Welcome

Volker Wieland, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (Speech)
09:45 – 10:30

President’s Address

Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank (Speech)
10:30 – 12:00

Debate 1: Is the Inflation Surge Over and What Are the Lessons for Monetary Policy?

Chair:

Volker Wieland, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability

Speakers:

Philip Lane, European Central Bank (Slides)
Richard Clarida, Columbia University (Slides)
Evi Pappa, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Slides)

Lead Questions:

Ulrich Kater, DekaBank
Michael Krause, University of Cologne
Beat Siegenthaler, Rokos Capital
Marco Stringa, Element Capital
12:00 – 13:00

Lunch
13:00 – 14:30

Debate 2: Monetary Policy Transmission and the Banking System

Chair:

Rainer Haselmann, Goethe University Frankfurt

Speakers:

Pablo Hernández de Cos, Banco de España (Slides) (Speech)
Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics (Slides)
Axel A. Weber, Center for Financial Studies (Slides)

Lead Questions:

Andreas Billmeier, Brevan Howard
Jens Eisenschmidt, Morgan Stanley
Dirk Schumacher, Natixis
Jari Stehn, Goldman Sachs
14:30 – 14:45

Break
14:45 – 16:15

Debate 3: Geopolitics and Structural Change: Implications for Real Activity, Inflation and Monetary Policy

Chair:

Petra Geraats, University of Cambridge

Speakers:

Isabel Schnabel, European Central Bank (Speech)
Vítor Gaspar, International Monetary Fund (Slides)
Clemens Fuest, ifo Institute (Slides)

Lead Questions:

Jörg Krämer, Commerzbank
Fritzi Köhler-Geib, KfW
Carola Schroeder, Union Investment
16:15

Concluding Remarks