January 19, 2007 Conference on Inflation Targeting

Conference on Inflation Targeting Organized by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB)

Conference on

Inflation Targeting

Organized by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB)

Friday, January 19, 2007

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Conference room, 2nd floor

(Address: 1051 Budapest, Rooselvelt tér 9.)

9:00	Registration
	Session I: Objectives and Challenges of Monetary Policy
	Chair: Jacques de Larosiere Speech
9:30-10:00	Zsigmond Járai, Governor, MNB
10:00-10:30	Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank Speech
10:30-11:00	Malcolm Knight, General Manager, BIS, former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada Speech
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
	Session II: Inflation Targeting
	Chair: Zsigmond Járai
11:30-12:00	Stefan Ingves, Governor, Sveriges Riksbank Paper Presentation
12:00-12:30	Charles Bean, Chief Economist, Executive Director, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England Presentation
12:30-13:30	Discussion
13:00-14:30	Lunch
	Session III: Inflation Targeting in Hungary
	Chair: Ivan Sramko, Governor, National Bank of Slovakia
14:30-15:00	István Hamecz, Director, MNB Paper Presentation
15:00-15:30	Stephen Gilmore, AIG Paper Presentation
15:30-16:00	Péter Duronelly, Budapest Bank Paper Presentation
16:00-16:30	Discussion
16:30-16.45	Concluding remarks György Szapáry, Deputy Governor, MNB

Vissza a tetejére

The primary objective of the MNB shall be to achieve and maintain price stability. (...) Without prejudice to its primary objective, the MNB shall support the maintenance of the stability of the system of financial intermediation, the enhancement of its resilience, its sustainable contribution to economic growth; furthermore, the MNB shall support the government’s economic policy and its policy related to environmental sustainability, using instruments at its disposal.

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