Sep 2018 - Ten years after the start of the crisis: contours of a new normal

Conference of the Belgian Financial Forum (BFF) in cooperation with SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

Friday 14 September 2018

Auditorium of the National Bank of Belgium, Brussels.

Welcome by Jakob De Haan, President of SUERF
Keynote address: "The future of central banking" by Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium 
Panel 1: Scars or scratches: how damaging is the fall-out from the crisis for the real economy and the natural rate of interest?
Panel 2: The financial sector and prudential policies in the new normal
Panel 3: Monetary policy beyond normalisation: objectives and instruments
Keynote address: "How much deepening of the Economic and Monetary Union is needed?" by Poul Thomsen, Director of the IMF's European Department