46th OeNB Economics Conference 2019 | Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches | 2 May 2019 | Marriott Hotel, Parkring 12a, 1010 Wien, Vienna, Austria

CONFERENCE ASPECTS

When the European Central Bank was created on June 1st 1998 and the euro was introduced on January 1st 1999, the project of a European Economic and Monetary Union finally became reality after a long process of monetary cooperation and unification. Now at its 20 birthday, it is time to take stock of this major institutional reform and look into 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 big as the Great Finanicial Crisis and its aftermath. We will discuss the role EMU plays in the larger European project. A look into the future will discuss how to cope with technological changes in money and finance and analyze the steps which will still be needed to fully complete this historical project.

2019 Speakers

Ewald Nowotny
Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Jakob de Haan
President, SUERF

Hartwig Löger
Austrian Federal Minister of Finance

Jean Claude Trichet
Chairman, Bruegel

Ewald Nowotny
Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Luiz de Mello
Director, Policy Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD

Peter Mooslechner
Executive Director, Oesterreichische Nationallbank

Andreas Ittner
Vice Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Ed Sibley
Deputy Governor, Prudential Regulation, Central Bank of Ireland

Martin Wolf
Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Ernest Gnan
Head, Economic Analsysis Division, Oesterreichische

Gottfried Haber
President, Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council

Ludger Schuknecht
Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Martin Summer
Head, Economic Research Division, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Kerstin Jorna
Deputy Director General, DDG2, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

Arnaud Mehl
Principal Economist, European Central Bank

Ewald Nowotny
Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Peter Praet
Member of the Executive Board and Chief Economist, European Central Bank

Ulrich Bindseil
Director General, Market Operations, European Central Bank

Kurt Pribil
Executive Director, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Andrei Kirilenko
Director, Centre for Global Finance and Technology, Imperial College

Doris Ritzberger
Director, Economic Analysis and Research Department, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Bruno Cabrillac
Deputy Director General Statistics, Economics and International, Banque de France

Isabel Schnabel
Professor of Financial Economics, University of Bonn, German Council of Economic Experts and SUERF Fellow