The conference is held under the Chatham House Rule and will focus on the ongoing challenges facing Europe against the backdrop of the current European policy agenda. Panel Session I - Investment in EuropeParticipation is by invitation only; Panel Session II - Investment finance in...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

The world is changing fast and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic face a wide range of challenges; be it pushing at bay the spectra of secular stagnation, lowering inequality, defining frameworks to manage new technologies or tackling climate change and migration. In this fourth edition...

Preliminary Programme: Session 1 - Monetary policy modelling in low interest rate and low inflation environment ; Session 2 - Models for macroprudential analysis ; Session 3 - Forecasting models – Nowcasting with rich datasets.

This conference focuses on the core questions facing the insurance industry today, as the sector undergoes changes which will fundamentally transform the behaviour of providers, brokers and consumers alike. Looking at how digital disruption and innovation will impact insurance going forward,...

The conference deliberations will deal with the following themes: - Cash: inefficient, outdated and a facilitator of crime? - Cash: still used vastly, not at the heart of current low inflation rates and keeper of civil rights? - Central Bank Digital Money and e-Krona: the future?

This conference will provide both a historical and a forward looking perspective on EMU. After a brief look into its general history, we will discuss more specifically how EMU brought about the level of monetary financial and fiscal stability that allowed Europe to master adversarial events as...

Conference Programme: - Keynote Speech "Moving forward with macroprudential frameworks" Stijn Claessens, Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, BIS; - Session I - Policy Interactions: Different points of view; - Session II - Macroprudential...