Central European Business and Social Initiative (CEBSI) and The F. A. Hayek Foundation Bratislava

in partnership with
Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik

organized in Bratislava on May 15, 2009
an international conference within

Free Market Road Show

Financial crisis:
State failure vs. Market failure

Program:

Panel 1: Economic Crisis – Markets and Morals

Introduction:
Ondrej Sočuvka, CEBSI
Ivan Švejna, F. A. Hayek Foundation

Welcome:
H. E. Helmut Wessely, Austrian Ambassador

Chair:
Joseph Wood, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Free Market Road Show /Sočuvka, Švejna, Wessely, Wood/

Speaker:
Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute

Free Market Road Show /Gregg/

Speaker:
Marcel Guarnizo, EICEE

Free Market Road Show /Guarnizo/

Speaker:
Michael Jäger, Taxpayers’ Association of Europe

Free Market Road Show /Jäger/

Speaker:
Daniel Mitchell, Cato Institute

Free Market Road Show /Mitchell/

Speaker:
Ján Oravec, Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia

Free Market Road Show /Oravec - Slovak language/

Discussion:

Free Market Road Show /Discussion I/

Panel 2: The Future of the Finance Industry

Chair:
Richard Rahn, Cato Institute

Free Market Road Show /Rahn/

Speaker:
Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate /Economics/

Free Market Road Show /Scholes/

Speaker:
Ivan Mikloš, ex-Minister of Finance, Slovakia

Free Market Road Show /Mikloš - Slovak language/

Speaker:
Juraj Kotian, Erste Bank

Free Market Road Show /Kotian/

Speaker:
Vladimír Vaňo, Volksbank

Free Market Road Show /Vaňo - Slovak language/

Speaker:
Barbara Kolm, Hayek Institute, Vienna

Free Market Road Show /Kolm/

Discussion:

Free Market Road Show /Discussion II/

Press Conference:
Ondrej Sočuvka, CEBSI
Ján Oravec, Hayek Founfation and Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia
Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate /Economics/
Marcel Guarnizo, EICEE
Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute

Free Market Road Show /Press Conference/