Challenges for a Stability-oriented Fiscal Policy

Welcome address

Esther Gordo Mora, Director of the División of Economic Analysis - AIReF, Vice-Chair of the Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions 

Thiess Büttner, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Stability Council

Opening remarks

Christian Lindner, German Minister of Finance

Panel 1 – Fiscal policy and financial stability

Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Finance

Benjamin Weigert, Deutsche Bundesbank

Klaus Adam, University of Mannheim, Scientific Advisory Board

Moderated by Thiess Büttner, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Stability Council

Panel 2 – Fiscal policy in crises

Veronika Grimm, University of Technology Nuremberg, German Council of Economic Experts

Friedrich Heinemann, ZEW Leibniz-Centre for European Economic Research

Volker Wieland, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability of Goethe University Frankfurt, Scientific Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Finance

Moderated by Silke Übelmesser, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Advisory Board of the Stability Council

Closing speech

Thiess Büttner, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Stability Council