Official website: www.munich-economic-summit.com
Programme (pdf - 0.05 MB)
The Munich Economic Summit, a joint initiative of CESifo and the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, organised in partnership with The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and Handelsblatt is aimed at bringing together academic scholars and decision-makers in politics, industry and finance to discuss vital European issues. The Summit convenes annually and involves only a limited number of invited participants to allow for a private atmosphere.
The first Summit in 2002 focused on Europe after Enlargement. The second Summit drew attention to the challenges Europe faces in the world economy. The third Summit dealt with the economic challenges implicit in the drafting of the European Constitution. The fourth Summit was held on 9 and 10 June 2005 and focused on Europe's global competitiveness, conducting a critical assessment of the achievements attained so far towards the goal of the Lisbon Summit 2000 to establish Europe as "the world’s most competitive and dynamic economy by 2010”. The fifth Summit, held on 4 and 5 May 2006, delved into the question of how the massive changes in the global division of labour – characterised above all by outsourcing and offshoring – affect the global economy in general and the European economy in particular. The sixth Summit – under the title Europe and the Demographic Challenge– was held on 21 and 22 June 2007. It delved into one of the more problematic issues facing industrialised countries in the coming decades: the rapid ageing of their population. See a short video introduction of the 6th Summit. The seventh Summit, Europe in the Global Competition for Talent, was held on 5 and 6 June 2008 and explored how to gain and how to retain one of the most crucial assets in an era of globalisation: brains and the talents they bring with them. The eighth Summit was held on 28 and 29 May 2009 and delved into the things we are doing right and wrong in the quest for reliable energy supplies and curbing global climate warming. The ninth Summit, under the title The Financial Crisis: The Way Forward, was held on 29 and 30 April and examined the roots of the near-meltdown of the financial system and delineate a possible new global financial architecture to prevent a recurrence.
The 2011 Summit will focus on Europe at a Crossroads: The Role of the State in a Globalised Economy. The financial and economic crises have thrown all certainties about the role of the state in both society and the economy into doubt. From state-heavy approaches through dirigisme to the social market economy, which model makes countries – or economic regions such as the EU – fitter for the future?
In 2009, the CESifo Group and the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt launched a Munich-Summit-associated seminar series entitled “Summit Lectures”, to be held before the Summit itself and aimed at discussing the main theme of the year’s Summit in a smaller, more intimate circle.
The first Summit Lecture took place on 5 May 2009. For details, click here. The second Summit Lecture was held on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and provided insights gained from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s that could prove useful in mending the world’s ailing financial markets. You will find more details here.
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