CESifo International Spring Conference 2010
"Getting the Global Economy Unstuck"

Thursday and Friday 18-19 March 2010
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin

Programme
18 March 2010
11:00	Press conference
12:00	Cold buffet lunch
12:45	Welcome and Introduction
13:00	Welcome in the World of Chaos – Impact of Financial Markets on Economic Perspectives Freddy van den Spiegel, BNP Paribas Fortis, Bruxelles
13:30	How to Re-establish the Capital Market Hans-Werner Sinn, Ifo Institute, Munich
14:00	US Imbalances and Global Rebalancing Alan Ruskin, Royal Bank of Scotland, New York
14:30	Discussion
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Divergence and Deficits: Challenges to the European Monetary Union Kai Carstensen, Ifo Institute, Munich
16:00	Relative Endurance of Latin America to the Crisis – Don’t Rest on your Laurels Enrique Alberola Ila, Banco de Espana, Madrid
16:30	China – An Economic Power Becomes a Political Challenger Markus Taube, University of Duisburg, Duisburg
17:00	General discussion
17:30	End of session
19:00	Dinner
19 March 2010
09:30	Welcome and Introduction Hans-Günther Vieweg, Ifo Institute, Munich
09:40	Industrial Recovery – Motor Vehicles and Steel Lead the Way Rhys Herbert, Oxford Economics, London
10:10	Steel Industry – Globalisation, Regionalism and the End of Recession Tony Cockerill, University of Cambridge,Cambridge
10:35	Value Creation in the Chemical Industry – Past, Present, Future Klaus Griesar, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
11:00	Discussion
11:15	Coffee break
11:30	European Supply Industry – Trends and Challenges Max Schumacher, CAEF – The European Foundry Association, Düsseldorf
11:55	When Governments Come into Play – Why the Auto Industry Continues to Destroy Value Arndt Ellinghorst, Credit-Suisse, London
12:20	Aerospace Industry – Flying through Turbulence to a Bright Future? Hans-Günther Vieweg, Ifo Institute, Munich
12:45	General discussion
13:00	End of session
	Hot buffet lunch
14:00	End of conference

CESifo International Spring Conference 2010 "Getting the Global Economy Unstuck"

Programme

CESifo International Spring Conference

CESifo International Spring Conference 2010
"Getting the Global Economy Unstuck"