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The OeNBÕs Information Policy —<br />
Conveying Stability and Security<br />
In <strong>2004</strong> the Money Museum recorded<br />
around 10,500 visitors, 29%<br />
of whom were not with a group.<br />
58% participated in one of the 237<br />
guided group tours offered by Money<br />
Museum employees.<br />
Important additions to the Money<br />
Museum in <strong>2004</strong> included the<br />
ÒSammlung Leypold,Ó a remarkable<br />
collection of coins currently on view<br />
at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in<br />
Vienna, and a Vienna Philharmonic<br />
gold bullion coin with a face value<br />
of EUR 100,000 acquired by the<br />
OeNB with the consent of the General<br />
Council. With its weight of<br />
31 kg and a diameter of 37 cm, the<br />
EUR 100,000 Vienna Philharmonic<br />
is the worldÕs largest gold coin. There<br />
are only 15 EUR 100,000 Vienna Philharmonic<br />
gold coins altogether, and<br />
the OeNBÕs Money Museum owns<br />
the only one in Austria.<br />
The OeNB as a National<br />
and International Forum<br />
for Dialogue<br />
Over the years, the OeNB has developed<br />
into a nationally and internationally<br />
recognized platform for dia-<br />
logue. The varied events the OeNB<br />
organizes provide economic policymakers<br />
with a forum for the exchange<br />
of ideas and foster economic<br />
discourse in general. In <strong>2004</strong>, the<br />
OeNB hosted events on a total of<br />
288 days, welcoming around 12,000<br />
participants. The OeNBÕs major conferences,<br />
the Economics Conference<br />
and the Conference on European Economic<br />
Integration, figure most prominently.<br />
The OeNBÕs 32 nd Economics Conference,<br />
which took place in Vienna<br />
on May 27 and 28, <strong>2004</strong>, again dealt<br />
with a highly topical issue: ÒGrowth<br />
and Stability in the EU: Perspectives<br />
from the Lisbon Agenda.Ó All conference<br />
participants agreed that to reach<br />
the goals set forth in the Lisbon<br />
agenda, further structural reform<br />
and investment were crucial, in particular<br />
in areas such as innovation<br />
and education.<br />
The Conference on European Economic<br />
Integration (CEEI, the successor<br />
to the OeNBÕs East West Conference)<br />
took place on November 29<br />
and 30, <strong>2004</strong>. As indicated in the title,<br />
ÒSouth Eastern EUROPEAN<br />
Challenges and Prospects,Ó the first<br />
CEEI focused especially on this area,<br />
thus constituting one of the OeNBÕs<br />
first concrete contributions to analyzing<br />
developments in Southeastern Europe.<br />
The conference mainly concentrated<br />
on areas of major importance<br />
from a central banking perspective:<br />
monetary and exchange rate policies<br />
as well as the banking sector in Southeastern<br />
Europe, a region in which<br />
Austrian banks have been particularly<br />
active.<br />
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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2004</strong>