Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 2018 29th edition - Villa d’Este (Cernobbio)
The Outlook for the Economy and Finance 2018
The Outlook for the Economy and Finance is the workshop held every year in the spring at Villa d’Este in Cernobbio. After its September Forum, this is the most prestigious event organized by The European House-Ambrosetti and its scope is to examine and explain economic and financial scenarios—the current situation, new trends and prospects for the future, both conjunctural and structural, and potential areas of crisis—in Italy, Europe and the world.
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Documentation and Speaking Points from the Workshop
- Growth and debt: an oxymoron or a possible challenge? How to grow despite the weight of public debt – Valerio De Molli
- Lettera club 90 – Cashless society: where we stand and what remains to be done for Italy
- Some economic forecasts: a comparative analysis
- The consequences of protectionism, Panel contribution by Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB
- The numbers of the Finance Workshop 2018 – Infographic
- Vice-President Dombrovskis speech: “Europe7 Aprile 2017an Banking and Capital Markets Union”
- Luigi Zingales slideshow
Papers and studies
- Ambrosetti Club Economic Indicator - Si è già esaurita la spinta positiva in Italia, o siamo solo di fronte a un assestamento?
- Position paper 2018 - Brexit, one year to go: state of negotiations and impact analysis to support business leaders in the transition ahead
- Cashless revolution: where we stand and what remains to be done for Italy - Report 2018
- Community Cashless Society 2018 - Press Release
- “Cashless Florence”: the roadmap to a cashless Florence - Presentation by Lorenzo Tavazzi
- Ambrosetti Club 2018 - The end of quantitative easing in Europe and the impact on Italy
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National and International Press Review
A prestigious event
This workshop’s prestige is due both to the importance of the issues examined and the array of speakers and attendees from around the globe that includes experts, Nobel laureates, presidents, CEOs, top managers of major corporations and representatives from leading political, economic and financial institutions, from both Italy and abroad.
The workshop has a strongly interactive nature with ample opportunity for debate and exchange, including outside the scheduled sessions.
Speakers
The last edition – the 28th – included among its speakers: Benoît Cœuré (Membro del Board Esecutivo della Banca Centrale Europea) Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice Presidente, Commissione Europea), Jyrki Katainen (Vice Presidente, Commissione Europea), Mervyn King (già Governatore, Bank of England), Elke König (Presidente, Single Resolution Board), Andrew Sheng (Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission), Yngve Slyngstad (CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management, Norvegia), Jes Staley (CEO, Barclays, UK), Duvvuri Subbarao (già Governatore, Reserve Bank of India), Andrés Velasco (già Ministro delle Finanze, Cile).
Over the years, also hosted at Cernobbio have been Josef Ackermann, Joaquín Almunia, Giuliano Amato, Gary Becker, Fred Bergsten, Howard Davies, Wim Duisenberg, Stanley Fischer, Fan Gang, Enrico Giovannini, Otmar Issing, Mervyn King, George Mathewson, William McDonough, Robert Mundell, Christian Noyer, Edward Prescott, Alessandro Profumo, Raghuram Rajan, Eiusuke Sakakibara, Myron Scholes, William Sharpe, Vernon Smith, Pedro Solbes Mira, Michael Spence, Joseph Stiglitz, Domenico Siniscalco, Peter Sutherland, John Tiner, Michael Treschow, Giulio Tremonti, Jean-Claude Trichet, Paul Volcker e James Wolfensohn.