The Bank of Finland will organise a 200th Anniversary Conference "Monetary policy under resource mobility" in Helsinki 5–6 May 2011.
The international conference will cover three key policy issues concerning central banks: "Global shifts – lessons from the past", "Monetary Policy" and "Financial Markets". At the end of the event there will be a panel discussion around the theme "Finance and Economic Growth".
Participants at the conference include internationally renowned central bankers as well as leading academics.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, will address the conference on Thursday while Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, will deliver a speech on Friday. The keynote speech will be held by Janet Yellen, vice chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Central bank governors acting as session chairs, presenters of papers, discussants or panellists include Jens Weidmann (Deutsche Bundesbank), Christian Noyer (Banque de France), Mario Draghi (Banca d'Italia), Masaaki Shirakawa (Bank of Japan), Sergey M. Ignatiev (Bank of Russia), Augustin Carstens (Banco de Méxiko), Athanasios Orphanides (Central Bank of Cyprus), Mark Carney (Bank of Canada), Stefan Ingves (Sveriges Riksbank), Nout Wellink (De Nederlandsche Bank) and Stanley Fischer (Bank of Israel).
Academic participants in the conference programme include professors Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley), Carl E. Walsh (University of California, Santa Cruz), Bengt Holmström (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT), Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) and Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods).
The concluding panel discussion will be chaired by Steve Liesman, senior economics reporter, CNBC.
The conference will be hosted by Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland. Professor Seppo Honkapohja, Bank of Finland board member, will chair the first conference session.
Participation in the event is by invitation only.
For additional information, please contact: Seppo Honkapohja, Member of the Board of the Bank of Finland, tel. +358 10 831 2005 or Jouko Vilmunen, Head of Research, tel. +358 10 831 2594.