Central Banking Series: Frankfurt: Monetary and economic policies on both sides of the Atlantic

GIC is returning to Frankfurt this Fall for the continuation of our International Central Banking Series at the Deutsche Bundesbank. We invite you to join us for our two-day conference, which will take place on September 30 and October 1, 2019 and includes a keynote address from Charles Evans, President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Please note that the deadline to register to join us in Frankfurt is August 22, 2019.

Dual-city registration options are available to extend your trip to join us in Madrid on the days following the conference on October 3-4, 2019.

 

Agenda

GIC Members Roundtable Discussion | Monday, September 30, 2019 
Guesthouse of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse 14, 60431 Frankfurt am Main

1:30 p.m. | Registration and Coffee

2:00 p.m. | Economic Outlook

• Felix Hüfner, UBS
• Sylvain Broyer, Standard and Poors
• Dirk Schumacher, Natixis
• Martin Moryson, DWS
• Michael Drury, McVean Trading & Investments
• Manuel Balmaseda, CEMEX

3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. | Financial Market Developments

• Jörg Zeuner, Union Investment
• Peter Brezinschek, Raiffeisen Bank International
• Heidi Schauman, Swedbank
• Jeremy Schwartz, WisdomTree

 

Public Conference | Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Regional Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Hesse
Taunusanlage 5, 60329 Frankfurt am Main

9:00 a.m. | Registration and Coffee

9:30 a.m. | Opening and Welcome

• Don Rissmiller, Strategas Research Partners & GIC Chair
• Ernest Gnan, Oesterreichische Nationalbank & SUERF

9:45 a.m. |  Keynote Speech
Current issues in macroprudential policies

• Claudia M. Buch, Deutsche Bundesbank

10:15 a.m. | Keynote Speech
Monetary policy issues in a US contexts

• Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break

11:30 a.m. | Keynote Speech
The view from academia

• Klaus Adam, University of Oxford & Nuffield College

12:00 p.m. | Panel: Global Monetary Policies – Lessons of the Recent Past
Chairperson: Jens Ulbrich, Deutsche Bundesbank & SUERF

• Frank Smets, ECB
• Elga Bartsch, Blackrock
• David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

1:15 p.m. | Lunch

3:00 p.m. | Panel: Economic Effects of Digitalisation
Chairperson: Don Rissmiller, Strategas Research Partners & GIC Chair

• Jens Südekum, University of Düsseldorf
• Lori Rennison, Bank of Canada
• Yael Selfin, KPMG LLP

4:45 p.m. | Concluding Remarks

• Don Rissmiller, Strategas Research Partners & GIC Chair

5:00 p.m. | End of Conference