programme - CFO Insight

6
17 OCTOBER
Welcome Address from CFO Insight
Opening Keynote Speech 10.30 a.m.-11.15 a.m.
Steering Emerging Europe into a Post-Crisis Future
10.15 a.m.-10.30 a.m.
by Armin Häberle, Executive Editor, CFO Insight
The present situation in Europe bears all the hallmarks of the financial, debt-related and structural aspects of current account crises. In emerging
Europe in particular, there is a need to correct imbalances and excessive private sector debt. For a long time to come, private consumption
and investment will be low, given high levels of corporate debt, weak banks and low credit growth. What will this mean for growth, labour
and export markets and the banking sector in emerging Europe? What macroeconomic environment do CFOs need to prepare for in 2013? Is
this the end of convergence, or could it be the beginning of a new dynamism that frees the region from its dependence on western Europe?
SPEAKER
Michael Landesmann,
Director of Research,
Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw),
Austria
Michael A. Landesmann is Research Director
of the Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw) and Professor of
Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria, where he is also the head of the department
of economic theory and quantitative economics.
His research focus is, inter alia, on East-West
economic integration, structural change and economic
growth. Michael Landesmann is a member of
various international study groups and committees.
He holds a Master's degree from the University of
Vienna and a PhD from Oxford University. The
wiiw is one of the leading centres for research on
Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe with more
than 35 years of experience and a team of more
than 40 professionals.