On February 12, 2010 SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year’s subject of “Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the Crisis” turned out to be particularly topical, as fi rst lessons from the financial crisis and global recession were being drawn, while concerns about Greece’s government debt problems were threatening to spread to other countries within the euro area, with potential negative repercussions for the euro area as a whole being feared by observers.
