The Euro 50 Group, sometimes Euro50, is a group of individuals that organizes non-public meetings to debate European economic and financial policy themes, with an emphasis on monetary policy and the euro area.[1] It is led by Edmond Alphandéry, who created it in 1999 with the help of Alexandre Lamfalussy.[2]

Edmond Alphandéry, founder of the Euro 50 Group

Activity

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The Euro 50 Group's activity is not public, and the group does not maintain a website. It organizes several meetings every year in locations around Europe and in Washington, D.C., the latter on the occasion of Spring meetings and Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Participants to Euro 50 Group meetings include "high level economists, bankers and officials from different countries."[3]

The Euro 50 Group meetings are occasionally organized in partnership with other think tanks. Such partners have included the China Finance 40 Forum,[4] the Centre for International Governance Innovation,[5] the Peterson Institute for International Economics,[4] and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.[6]

Leading public policy officials who have participated in Euro 50 Group meetings have included Alan Greenspan,[7] Mario Draghi,[8] Malcolm Knight,[5] Jyrki Katainen,[9] and François Villeroy de Galhau.[10]

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Edomond Alphandéry". Columbia University Center on Capitalism and Society.
  2. ^ "Professor Lamfalussy Commemorative Conference" (PDF). Magyar Nemzeti Bank. 1 February 2016. p. 63.
  3. ^ "Professor Tsoukalis was keynote speaker on Greece during a dinner organised by Euro50 Group in Frankfurt". ELIAMEP. 30 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b "CF40 - Euro 50 - PIIE Joint Conference on COVID-19". China Finance 40 Forum. 19 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Euro50 Group & CIGI Breakfast Meeting – Capital flows and their impact: a focus on Latin America and Europe". Center for International Governance Innovation. 11 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Roundtable of the Euro50 Group and RBWC on the Eurozone Crisis and the International Monetary System". Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee. 9 December 2011.
  7. ^ Conor O'Clery (1 December 2001). "Greenspan favours dollar over euro as being the 'most attractive international currency'". Irish Times.
  8. ^ "Speech by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, at the Euro50 Group Roundtable on "Monetary Policy in Times of Turbulence", Frankfurt am Main". European Central Bank. 31 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Euro 50 Group meeting: ' Seizing the Momentum for Strengthening the Economic and Monetary Union: a Contribution from the Euro 50 Group '- EC Jyrki Katainen delivers a keynote speech". European Parliament. 10 April 2018.
  10. ^ ""Exiting unconventional monetary policies in an uncertain world" Speech by François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France" (PDF). Banque de France. 25 October 2018.