“The ECB and Its Watchers XXVI”

Today, at Goethe University, from the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability:

Program

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome
Volker Wieland, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (Speech)
09:45 – 10:15 President’s Address
Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank (Speech)
10:15 – 11:45 Debate 1: Monetary Policy Amidst Trade Shock, Rising Debt and Diverse Drivers of Inflation

Chair:
Michael Krause, University of Cologne

Speakers:
Philip Lane, European Central Bank (Slides)
James Bullard, Purdue University (Slides)
Frank Smets, Bank for International Settlements (Slides)

Lead Questions:
Katharine Neiss, PGIM
Sarah Schmidtke, Bankenverband Mitte
Julian Callow, Rokos Capital
Sylvain Broyer, S&P Global
13:00 – 14:30 Debate 2: The Global Environment for Central Banking: Economic Spillovers, Geopolitics and Diverging Economic Trends

Chair:
Michael Binder, Goethe University Frankfurt

Speakers:
Olli Rehn, Bank of Finland
Tao Wang, UBS
Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin

Lead Questions:
Thomas Möllers, Stiftung Geld und Währung
Andreas Billmeier, Bruegel
Jens Eisenschmidt, Morgan Stanley
Stefan Kipar, Union Investment
14:45 – 16:15 Debate 3: European Integration and Growth Strategy: Product, Labor & Financial Markets and New Technologies

Chair:
Natacha Valla, Sciences Po

Speakers:
Martin Kocher, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Veronika Grimm, University of Technology Nuremberg and German Council of Economic Experts
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics

Lead Questions:
Christian Keller, Barclays
Jari Stehn, Goldman Sachs
Marco Stringa, Element Capital
Alain Durré, Natixis
16:15 Closing Remarks

One thought on ““The ECB and Its Watchers XXVI””

  1. Macroduck

    “My presentation here.”

    Lede buried. Worth a look.

    You have a slide representing reserve holdings, which reflects public sector behavior, though not all aspects of public sector behavior. I realize that reserve holdings are updated more often than private sector fx transactions and the currency element of trade transactions. However, private activity is considerably larger, especially as a flow. Probably needs attention, too.

    If Iran’s oil tolls and oil sales (not entirely a private sector matter, I realize) were to be mostly denominated in yuan, that might move the needle on fx flows. Every move of the needle makes the next move easier, assuming nobody messes up the institutional structure.

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