Sovereign Debt in the European Union
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 15.00-18.00 CEST
Webinar part of Distributed Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference — D-DebtCon
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Webinar programme
PART I – RESEARCH 15.00 – 15.05 | Welcome and Introduction Elena Carletti (Professor of Finance, Bocconi University)Paper presentations Chair: Ramon Marimon (Professor of Economics and Pierre Werner Chair at the European University Institute) 15.05 – 15.30 | Sovereign Debt Maturity Structure and its Costs Flavia Corneli (Senior Economist, Bank of Italy) Slides – Paper 15.30 – 15.55 | Debt Crises Fast and Slow Giancarlo Corsetti (Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge) Slides – Paper 15.55 – 16.20 | The Bright Side of the Doom Loop: Banks Exposure and Default Incentives Dominik Thaler (Research Economist, Bank of Spain) and Luis Rojas (Research Fellow, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Slides – Paper
16.20 – 16.35 break
PART II – POLICY 16.35 – 16.50 | Keynote Speech “A Fresh Look at Debt Sustainability in the Euro Area” Rolf Strauch (Chief Economist, European Stability Mechanism)
16.50 – 17.50 | Policy Debate on the “Future challenges of sovereign debt in the European Union” Moderator: George Papaconstantinou (School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute) Speakers:
- Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics and Chief Economist, French Treasury)
- Marco Buti (Head of Cabinet of EC Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)
- Pablo de Ramón-Laca Clausen (Spanish General Director of the Tesoro and Financial Policy)
- Isabelle Mateos Y Lago (Managing Director and Deputy Head of BlackRock’s Official Institutions Group)
17.50 – 18.00 | Concluding remarks Jean Pisani-Ferry (Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po)
About D-DebtCon![]() |
About DebtConThe Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, or DebtCon, was launched at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown in January 2016. Its mission is to engage scholars and practitioners across geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries to help solve pressing sovereign debt problems. DebtCon brings cutting-edge research to bear on policy and market practice, and helps make research more impactful with exposure to real-world policy and market experience. D-DebtCon will carry on the mission and expand the reach of the DebtCon project at this critical time. DebtCon4 will return in person at the European University Institute (EUI) in 2021. Since 2019, DebtCon has been part of the Sovereign Debt Forum, a collaboration among Georgetown IIEL, Queen Mary University London and EUI, to encourage and disseminate policy-relevant research, and help improve government debt management capacity, particularly in vulnerable economies. Past programs in Washington and Geneva may be found at this link. |