Banco de España and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) organized a Conference on “Global Imbalances and Capital Flows in the Era of New Technologies” on September 10th & 11th 2019 at Banco de España’s Headquarters in Madrid.
A number of high-level speakers, including governors, deputy governors and senior officials from various international organisations, as well as top economists from academia and various think-tanks participated. Governor Hernández de Cos gave the Opening Remarks.
10 September 2019 - 11 September 2019
Banco de España, Madrid
Agenda ( 244 KB )
Speakers
10 September
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- 09:00h - 09:30h
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Opening remarks
Pablo Hernández de Cos
(1 MB), Governor, Banco de España
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- 09:30h - 11:00h
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Session I. G20 @ 20. The Debate on Global Imbalances: Past, Present, Future
Chair: Óscar Arce, DG Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de España
Speakers:
- Kristin J. Forbes (643 KB), Professor of Management and Global Economics, MIT’s Sloan School of Management
- Brad Setser (712 KB), Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
- Alain Gabler (356 KB), Head of International Policy Analysis, Swiss National Bank
- Livio Stracca (140 KB), Deputy Director DG International and European relations, ECB
- Kristin J. Forbes
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- 11:30h - 13:00h
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Session II. China: 40 Years of Opening Up. New Challenges ahead for the World Economy
Chair: José Viñals, Group Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank
Speakers:
- Alicia García Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Natixis
- Zheng Liu (837 KB), Senior Research Advisor and Director of the Center for Pacific Basin Studies, Federal Reserve of San Francisco
- Jacob A. Frenkel (1 MB), Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International
- James Daniel, Assistant Director and Mission Chief for China, IMF
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- 14:45h - 16:15h
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Session III. Emerging Economies: Managing the Permanence of Spillovers.
Chair: Julio Velarde, Governor, Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
Speakers:
- Alejandro Díaz de León (2 MB), Governor, Banco de México
- Liliana Rojas-Suárez (858 KB), Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative, Center for Global Development
- Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor, Bank of Thailand
- Alejandro Díaz de León
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- 16:30h - 18:15h
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Session IV. G20 @ 20. Reforms for Global Financial Resilience in the EPG Report
Chair: Margarita Delgado, Deputy Governor, Banco de España
Speakers:
- Andrés Velasco, Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy and Member of the EPG Group
- Elena Flores (317 KB), Director International Economic and Financial Relations; Global Governance, European Commission
- Otávio Ribeiro Damaso, Deputy Governor for Regulation, Banco Central do Brasil
- Turki Almutairi, Deputy Governor for Research and International Affairs, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authorit
- Carlos San Basilio, Secretary General of the Spanish Treasury
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- 20:00h - 22:00h
- Dinner Keynote Speech: Yi Gang, Governor, People’s Bank of China
11 September
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- 09:15h - 10:45h
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Session V. Central Bank Digital Currencies.
Chair: Ousmène Jacques Mandeng
(172 KB), Senior Advisor, AccentureSpeakers:
- Cecilia Skingsley, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank
- Hyun Song Shin (304 KB), Economic Adviser and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements
- Jorge Ponce (1 MB), Manager of Economic Research, Banco Central de Uruguay
- Tobias Adrian, Financial Counselor, IMF
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- 11:15h - 12:45h
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Session VI. Capital Flows: Risks and Opportunities in a Digital Context
Chair: José Manuel González-Páramo, Head of Global Economics & Public Affairs, BBVA
Speakers:
- Dan Morgan, Head of Regulatory Relations for Europe, Ripple
- Jean-Pierre Landau, former Deputy Governor of Banque de France; Head of French Government special mission on cryptocurrencies
- Luiz de Mello, Director of the Policy Studies Branch at the Economics Department, OECD
- Qimiao Fan, EFI Director of Strategy & Operations, World Bank
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- 12:45h - 13:00h
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Closing Remarks
Marc Uzan, Executive Director and founder, RBWC