The ECB hold a forum on central banking in Portugal. Here's the schedule
Mario Draghi, Mark Carney, Stanley Fischer and Huruhiko Kuroda hold top billing at the ECB forum on central banking in Sintra, Portugal
The event kicks off tonight 17.30 gmt with a welcome address my Mario Draghi and then an after dinner speech by the Fed's Stanley Fischer.
I've spoken to the ECB and Draghi's opening remarks are apparently going to be very brief, so we shouldn't expect any big headlines from it. Aside from Fischer's speech after, the bulk of speeches are tomorrow and Saturday with Draghi opening with an introductory speech at 08.00 gmt
There's plenty of other bigwigs on the menu so it looks like headline city all day tomorrow and Saturday
Here's the full schedule (times are gmt+1);
Thursday, 21 May 2015
6.30 p.m. | Opening reception and dinner |
Welcome address Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank | |
Dinner hosted by the Executive Board of the European Central Bank | |
Dinner speech Stanley Fischer,Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
Friday, 22 May 2015
9 a.m. | Introductory speech Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank |
9.30 a.m. | Session 1: Current perspectives on infl ation and unemployment in the euro area and advanced economies |
Chair:Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank | |
Inflation and activity - two explorations, and their monetary policy Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, International Monetary Fund (with Eugenio Cerutti, Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund andLawrence H. Summers, Professor, Harvard University) | |
Discussant: Laurence Ball, Professor, Johns Hopkins University | |
Hysteresis and the European unemployment problem revisited Jordi Galí, Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, CREI | |
Discussant: Robert J. Gordon, Professor, Northwestern University | |
11.30 a.m. | Coffee break |
12 a.m. | Panel: Current perspectives on in flation and unemployment in the euro area and advanced economies Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, Citi Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England Dennis Snower, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy Lawrence H. Summers, Professor, Harvard University |
1.30 p.m | Lunch |
7.30 p.m. | Reception and dinner |
Saturday, 23 May 2015
9 a.m. | Session 2: Structural perspectives on European employment, productivity and growth in a global context |
Chair: Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank | |
11 a.m. | Unemployment in Europe: what does it take to bring it down? Tito Boeri,Professor, Bocconi University (with Juan-Francisco Jimeno, Head of Research Division, Banco de España) |
Discussant: Gilles Saint-Paul, Professor, Paris School of Economics | |
Innovation and growth SirChristopher Pissarides, Professor, London School of Economics | |
Discussant: John Fernald, Senior Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | |
Coffee break | |
11.30 a.m. | Panel: Structural perspectives on European employment, productivity and growth in a global context Patrick Honohan, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland Catherine Mann, Chief Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Jean Pisani-Ferry, Commissioner General, France Stratégie Christoph M. Schmidt, Chairman, German Council of Economic Experts |
1 p.m. | Lunch |
2.30 p.m. | Policy panel Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank Stanley Fischer, Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan |
Moderator:Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist | |
4 p.m. | Award ceremony - young economists' posters |
| Closing remarksFamily photo | |
7 p.m. | Dinner hosted by the Banco de Portugal |