. Speech - Opening speech: Fiscal policy in times of Covid-19 by Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice President, European Commission) . Speech - Keynote address: Unconventional fiscal and monetary policy at the zero lower bound Isabel Schnabel | Member, Executive Board of the ECB . Presentation - Paper - Nicolas Carnot (Chief Auditor, French High Council of Public Finances): The public debt outlook in the EMU post-Covid: A key challenge for the EU fiscal framework Presentation - Discussant Thiess Büttner (Chair of Public Finance, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) . Presentation - Paper - Lucía Rodríguez Muñoz (Deputy Director of Public Debt, Economic Analysis Division, Spanish Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility):How to strengthen fiscal surveillance towards a medium-term focus? Presentation - Discussant Gilles Mourre (Head of Unit, Fiscal policy and surveillance (ECFIN), European Commission) . Presentation - Paper - Eddie Casey (Chief Economist and Head of Secretariat, Irish Fiscal Council): The role of the Independent Fiscal Institutions in assessing the sustainability of high public debt in the post-Covid era. Presentation - Discussant Claudia Braz (Chairperson, Working Group on Public Finances of the European System of Central Banks) . Paper - Presentation - Kenneth Rogoff (Professor, Harvard University): Is Higher Debt an (Almost) Free Lunch? Discussant Giancarlo Corsetti (Professor, Cambridge University) . Presentation - Jonathan D. Ostry (Acting Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF):Worse Than You Think: Public Debt Forecast Errors in Advanced and Developing Economies. Presentation - Discussant Junji Ueda (Director for Economic and Fiscal Policy Coordination, Ministry of Finance of Japan) . Presentation - Charles Goodhart (Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics: The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival . Speech - Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner, European Commission): Keynote speech: The role of fiscal policy in the wake of Covid-19 .
