Jean-Claude Trichet: The role of research in central banks and at the ECB Speech by Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, at the ceremony for the Award of the Germán Bernácer Prize, Madrid, 21 May 2007.
*  *  *  Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege and a pleasure for me to award today the 2006 Germán Bernácer Prize to Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, for her outstanding research on financial globalization, exchange rates and capital markets.