ECB conference and policy workshop: Debt overhang, macroeconomic adjustment and EMU economic governance: challenges ahead for the euro area, Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt, Duitsland
© Anton Bussemaker
datum 19 november 2015 - 20 november 2015
plaats Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
organisatie Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) i

ECB conference and workshop

Frankfurt am Main, 19 and 20 November 2015

Sonnemannstrasse 20, Frankfurt am Main

  • Participation upon invitation only -

Programme

Thursday, 19 November 2015 - Conference

Press Conference Room

8:30

Registration and coffee

9:00

Welcoming remarks

Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Session 1

Debt overhang, structural reforms and competitiveness

Chair: Isabel Vansteenkiste, European Central Bank

9:15

Paper 1

Structural reforms in a debt overhang

Javier Andrés, University of Valencia

Óscar Arce*, Banco de España

Carlos Thomas, Banco de España

Discussant: Máté Tóth, European Central Bank

10:00

Paper 2

Financial heterogeneity and monetary union

Simon Gilchrist, Boston University

Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University

Jae Sim, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Egon Zakrajšek*, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Discussant: Federica Romei, European University Institute

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Invited speaker:

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University

Discussant: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Session 2

Private sector indebtedness and investment

Chair: Günter Coenen, European Central Bank

12:00

Paper 3

Debt overhang, rollover risk and investment in Europe

Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland

Luc Laeven*, European Central Bank

David Moreno, University of Maryland

Discussant: Benoît Mojon, Banque de France

12:45

Lunch

13:45

Paper 4

The gains from resolving debt overhang: evidence from a structural estimation

Robert Kurtzman*, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

David Zeke, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Luca Fornaro, CREi

Session 3

Private and public indebtedness

Chair: Francesco Drudi, European Central Bank

14:30

Paper 5

The legacy debt and joint path of public deficit and debt in the euro area

Alberto Caruso, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Lucrezia Reichlin*, London Business School

Giovanni Ricco, University of Warwick

Discussant: Bartosz Maćkowiak, European Central Bank

15:15

Coffee break

15:45

Invited speaker:

Philip Lane, Trinity College Dublin

Discussant: Livio Stracca, European Central Bank

16:30

Paper 6

Interlinkages between private and public debt overhangs

Nicoletta Batini, International Monetary Fund

Giovanni Melina*, International Monetary Fund

Stefania Villa, KU Leuven and University of Foggia

Discussant: Jacopo Cimadomo, European Central Bank

17:15

Paper 7

Fiscal policy and the distribution of consumption risk

Mariano Massimiliano Croce, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thien T. Nguyen, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Lukas Schmid*, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Discussant: Ivan Jaccard, European Central Bank

18:00

End of conference

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Friday, 20 November 2015 - Workshop

Conference centre C 2.01

8:30

Registration and coffee

9:15

Session 1

Achieving a genuine Economic and Monetary Union

Chair: Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Discussants: Pervenche Berès, European Parliament

Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Martin Selmayr, European Commission

Vittorio Grilli, J.P. Morgan

10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Session 2

Public and private debt overhang: possibilities and impossibilities

Chair: Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Discussants: Lorenzo Codogno, London School of Economics and Political Science

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University

Raquel Fernández, New York University

Jean Pisani-Ferry, France Stratégie

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Session 3

Capital Markets Union: what could it look like?

Chair: Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank

Discussants: Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Société Générale

Isabel Schnabel, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Huw Pill, Goldman Sachs International

Sean Berrigan, European Commission

16:00

End of workshop

General information

Conference venue

European Central Bank

Sonnemannstrasse 20

60314 Frankfurt am Main

+49 69 1344 0

Fax: +49 69 1344 6000

info@ecb.europa.eu

Conference language

English

Transfers

Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers from and to the airport, unless indicated otherwise.

Contacts

DGE-DGI-Conference-2015@ecb.europa.eu

David Sondermann

Directorate General Economics

+49 1525 3055 044

David.Sondermann@ecb.europa.eu

Demosthenes Ioannou

Directorate General International and European Relations

Demosthenes.Ioannou@ecb.europa.eu

Annekatrin Bergmann

Directorate General Economics

+49 174 340 9797

Annekatrin.Bergmann@ecb.europa.eu

Jutta Auth

Directorate General Communications - Outreach Division

+49 69 1344 7417

DGC-Events@ecb.europa.eu


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