Transatlantic Economic Interdependence and Policy Challenges

A Conference Jointly Organized by the Bank of New York and the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN)

April 22, 2013

Venue: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, USA

Preliminary Program [as of February 11, 2013]

07:45-08:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

08:30-08:45 Opening Remarks by William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks by H.E. Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States

09:00-10:30 Session I - Transatlantic Macro-Financial Linkages: The Ties that Bind

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

Panelists: - Richard Clarida, - John Lipsky, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies - Athanasios Orphanides, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 Session II - Macroeconomic Developments and Policy Challenges in the United States and Europe

Chair: Donald Kohn, Brookings Institution

Panelists: - Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge - Mickey Levy, Economic Advisor - Jean Pisani-Ferry, Bruegel - Vincent Reinhart,

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Keynote Speech by Olli Rehn, Vice-President, European Commission

14:30-16:00 Session III - Transatlantic Dimensions of Financial Reform

Chair: Paul Volcker, Former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Panelists: - Sheila Bair, Systemic Risk Council - Sarah Dahlgren, Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Andrea Enria, European Banking Authority

16:00-16:30 Closing Remarks (TBA)

16:30 Adjourn

Organizers:

Moreno Bertoldi, European Commission

Valerie Rouxel-Laxton, European Commission

Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York