Dear colleague,

May I draw your attention to a SUERF BAFFI Bocconi webinar on “Robert Triffin’s life and research: Takeaways for the current and future international monetary order”
which will take place next week on Wednesday, 13 September from 16:00 to 17:30 CET.  

 

In case you are not able to attend or want further colleagues to also listen in, please feel free to forward this e-mail invitation. For registration, please use this link.

 

Kind regards

Ernest Gnan

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Prof Dr Ernest Gnan

Secretary General, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum

Honorary Economic Advisor to the OeNB Governor

 

ernest.gnan@oenb.at
+43 664 4333384 • @dr_gnan • LinkedIn • www.suerf.org

 

 

Invitation www.suerf.org/RobertTriffin We have the pleasure of inviting you to the SUERF BAFFI Bocconi webinar “Robert Triffin’s life and research: Takeaways for the current and future international monetary order” to be held on 13 September 2023, 16:00-17:30 CET. Motivation: Robert Triffin, a Belgian-American scholar and policy advisor, was a defining voice in economics and international politics in the twentieth century. He is best known for his analysis of the vulnerabilities of the international monetary system—the “Triffin dilemma”—, but he also played a key role in the debates on European monetary integration, especially as the monetary advisor of Jean Monnet. With his proposals for a European Reserve Fund and a European currency unit, he became one of the intellectual fathers of Europe"s single currency, the euro. The biography “Robert Triffin: A Life” by Ivo Maes and Ilaria Pasotti evaluates what made Triffin a crucial figure in modern economic history. With an emphasis on the ideas that shaped the postwar international system, the book explores both the man and the mission. In addition to analyzing his work in economics and policymaking, the authors trace Triffin"s story from a very modest background, as the son of a butcher in Flobecq, who grew up through the interwar period, to a singularly influential economist in the late twentieth century.   Ivo Maes (University of Louvain, ICHEC Brussels Management School) will present key findings from the biography, highlighting what we can learn from Robert Triffin for today’s challenges. Renowned experts including Harold James (Princeton University I SUERF Fellow), Robert McCauley (Boston University I University of Oxford), and André Sapir (Bruegel I Universite libre de Bruxelle) will discuss these findings and offer insights of their own. The event will be moderated by Ernest Gnan (SUERF). There will be ample time for Q&A with the authors and discussants.   Wednesday, 13 September 2023 | 16:00-17:30 CET | online via Webex Register here Feel free to share this invitation with colleagues who might be interested to attend!   We look forward to your participation! Yours sincerely, SUERF Secretariat Upcoming Events ·         NBS I Bank of Finland I SUERF Research Conference 20 years of Macroprudential Policy in Europe – looking back and looking ahead 21-22 September 2023. Venue: Bratislava or online (hybrid) I Register here. ·         SUERF I NBS I BAFFI Bocconi workshop Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) Thursday, 28 September 2023 I 14:00-16:30 CET I online via Webex I Register here. Call for Papers European Network for Research on Investment (ENRI) Conference: Investment and Competitiveness in a Changing World - Submission deadline: 10 September 2023 (see pdf). Conference co-hosted by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Banca d’Italia, the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Money and Finance Forum (SUERF) SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum c/o OeNB, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, A-1090 Vienna Tel: +43 1 40420 7216 - E-mail: suerf@oenb.at.