SUERF

Program

Time

Tuesday, 26 November 2019

13:30

Registration and Welcome Coffee

14:15

Panel Session I - Investment in Europe

Presentation of the key results of the EIB 2019-2020 Investment Report

Chair: Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, EIB

Pier Carlo Padoan, former Minister of Finance, Italy

Daniel Gros, Director, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Vítor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School

16:00

Keynote speech

Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics, Collège de France and London School of Economics

16:30

Coffee Break

17:00

Panel Session II - Investment finance in Europe

Chair: Laurence Boone, Chief Economist, OECD

Catherine Mann, Global Chief Economist, Citigroup

Boris Vujcic, Governor, Croatian Central Bank

Peter Praet, former Member of the Board, European Central Bank

Jordi Gual, Chairman, CaixaBank

18:25

First day stock-taking

Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

19:30

Speakers dinner (by invitation only)

Time

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

08:45

Welcome Coffee

09:30

Opening Remarks

Werner Hoyer, President, EIB

09:45

Keynote Address

Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences 2010, Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Q&A session

10:30

Fireside policy chat

Moderator: Andrew McDowell, Vice President, EIB

Philip Lane, Board Member, European Central Bank (ECB)

Klaus Regling, Managing Director, European Stability Mechanism (ESM)

Q&A session

11:30

Coffee Break

11:45

Parallel Sessions

Session A1: Competitiveness and competition in times of disruptive technological change – do we have to fear the “winners take it all?”
Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Professor of Managerial Economics, Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, KU Leuven
Ufuk Akcigit, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Jan de Loecker, Professor of Economics, KU Leuven
Bart van Ark, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, The Conference Board

Session B1: Skills and policies? Ex ante vs ex post inclusiveness
Chair: Jan Svejnar, Director of the Centre on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University
Stefano Scarpetta, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Yann Algan, Professor of Economics, Sciences PO and Dean of School of Public Affairs
Jeong-pyo Choi, President, Korea Development Institute (tbc)

Session C1: Finance for innovation and intangibles
Chair: Pedro de Lima, Head of Economic Studies, EIB
Gilles Moëc, Group Chief Economist, AXA
Olivier Khayat, Co-CEO Commercial Banking Western Europe, Unicredit
Jean-Christophe Laloux, Director General, Head of Operations, EIB
Jon Frost, Senior Economist, BIS

12:45

Lunch Break

14:00

Parallel Sessions

Session A2: Firms dynamism – start-up, scaling up, diffusion of innovation and reallocation of resources
Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Head of Division on Structural Policy Analysis, OECD
Eric Bartelsmann, Professor of Economics, Vrije Universiteit (VU)
Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School (tbc)
Roger Havenith, General manager, European Invesrtment Fund (EIF)

Session B2: Technological and climate change
Chair: Jan Svejnar, Columbia University
Pantelis Capros, Professor of Energy Economics and Operational Research, National Technical University of Athens
László Varró, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Gunnar Muent, Deputy Director General, Projects Department, EIB

Section C2: Technological change and the government sector
Chair: Pedro de Lima, EIB
Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
Christopher Ferguson, Director National, International & Research group, UK Government Digital Service

15:00

Coffee Break

15:15

Keynote speech: The public sector: market fixing or market shaping?

Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Innovation and Public Value, University College London, Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

15:45

Panel Session III - The EU – striving for competitiveness and inclusion

Chair: Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, EIB

Jan Svejnar, Director Centre on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University

Robert Koopman, Chief Economist, WTO

Mahmood Pradhan, Deputy Director European Department, IMF

Laurence Boone, Chief Economist, OECD

Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, EBRD

17:20

Policy stocktaking

Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

17:40

Closing Remarks

18:00

Tech Fair

Hands-on experience of new technologies & Closing Drinks

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AI, digitalisation and innovation Climate change, Energy and Finance Corporate finance Economic policy and Political economy International Trade and Globalization Macroeconomics, Growth and real economy

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