THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY

AND FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE

27-29 June 2016 Sintra Portugal

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
MONDAY, 27 JUNE 2016

18:30 Opening reception and dinner

Welcome address
Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank
Dinner hosted by the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Dinner speech: The domain of central bank independence
Alan S. Blinder, Professor, Princeton University

WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2016

09:00 Session 2: Financial regulatory challenges

Chair: Benot Cur, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Financial regulatory reform after the crisis: an assessment
Discussant: Charles Goodhart, Professor em., London School of
Economics

TUESDAY, 28 JUNE 2016

09:00 Introductory speech

Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank

Stijn Claessens, Senior Adviser, Board of Governors of the Federal

Reserve System

09:30 Session 1: Macroeconomic and monetary challenges

Chair: Benot Cur, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Discussant: Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research,

Bank for International Settlements

Global monetary order

Barry Eichengreen, Professor, University of California at Berkeley

11:00

Discussant: Guillermo Calvo, Professor, Columbia University

11:30 Panel: Financial regulatory challenges

Chair: Vtor Constncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank

Real interest rates, imbalances and the curse

of regional safe asset providers at the zero lower bound
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor, University of California at Berkeley;
Hlne Rey, Professor, London Business School

Claudia M. Buch, Deputy President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow, Fung Global Institute
Adair Turner, Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking

Discussant: David Vines, Professor, University of Oxford

11:30

13:00 Lunch

12:00 Panel: Macroeconomic and monetary challenges

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

14:30 Concluding panel

Anne O. Krueger, Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Maurice Obstfeld, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research
Department, International Monetary Fund
Shang-Jin Wei, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank

Charles Bean, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Vtor Constncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank
Andr Sapir, Professor, Universit libre de Bruxelles
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

13:30 Lunch

16:00 Award ceremony - young economists posters

Chair: Jean-Claude Trichet, Former President, European Central Bank

Closing remakrs
18:30 Reception and dinner

Group photo

Young economists poster session: posters produced by young

economists presenting their research will be on display until 13:30
on Wednesday, 29 June*

18:30 Dinner hosted by the Banco de Portugal

*Participants are invited to talk to the students individually about their research and to rate
the posters using the electronic facility provided. Participants raitings will serve as input for
the selection of the best paper, which will be awarded a prize at the end of the Forum.

Conference dates Monday, 27 to Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Conference venue Penha Longa Hotel, Estrada da Lagoa Azul, Linh, Sintra, Portugal, Tel.: +351 219 249 011 Fax: +351 219 249 007
Conference language English
Contacts
Tel.: +49 69 1344 7523, Mobile: +49 174 172 4642, Email: ecb.forum.sintra@ecb.europa.eu
Website www.ecbforum.eu
Please note that this programme may be subject to change without notice