5th ECB Conference on Statistics on "Central Bank statistics: What did the financial crisis change"

Time: 22-23 April 2010
Venue: Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank

Session 1:

What is new in the demand for ESCB statistics, for financial stability and macro-prudential purposes?
Chair: Nout Wellink, President, De Nederlandsche Bank, and Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
New demands for central bank statistics in macro-prudential policy analysis
Lucas D. Papademos, Vice-President, European Central Bank
The new EU framework for macro-prudential oversight: what information is needed and how can they ensure it reaches the ESRB in the most efficient way?
Jörgen Holmquist, Director General, Internal Market and Services, European Commission
Discussant: Christian Noyer, Governor, Banque de France

Session 2:

Central banks’ statistical initiatives to meet new challenges
Chair: George Provopoulos, Governor, Bank of Greece
Changes in reporting, data collection and decision-support systems
Marko Kranjec, Governor, Banka Slovenije
Macro-prudential and financial stability statistics to improve financial analysis of exposures and risk transfers
Peter Praet, Chairman, ESCB Banking Supervision Committee and Executive Director, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique
Discussant: Manuel Marfán, Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile, and Chairman, Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics

Session 3:

G-20 initiatives on financial statistics: the way forward Chair: Otmar Issing, President, Center for Financial Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
What are the data requirements of a global risk map or early warning system?
Stephen Cecchetti, Economic Adviser, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements
Financial statistics in the crisis: what did they get right, what did they miss and how should they change?
Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Michael Palumbo and Matthew J. Eichner, Deputy Associate Directors, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Vítor Constâncio, Governor, Banco de Portugal

Session 4:

The role of statistics in central bank communication Chair: Steven Keuning, Director General Human Resources, Budget and Organisation, European Central Bank
Communicating central bank statistics to the general public
Wolfgang Duchatczek, Vice Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Talking numbers: central bank communications on monetary policy and financial stability
Dr Petra Geraats, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Discussants: François Lenglet, La Tribune Elga Bartsch, Morgan Stanley

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