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Thursday 31 May 2007
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José Manuel Barroso, President, European Commission |
Keynote address.
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SESSION I
UNWINDING GLOBAL IMBALANCES
Chair: Klaus Regling, Director General, DG ECFIN, European
Commission
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Part 1: Dollars,
deficits and distress: regional perspectives |
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John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
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The multilateral approach to unwinding global
imbalances -
Presentation
(pdf file 240 kb)
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Wu Xiaoling, Deputy Governor, The People's Bank
of China, People's Republic of China |
Global imbalances and China's macro control |
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Jean-Philippe Cotis, Chief
Economist, OECD |
Unwinding global imbalances: how much can we expect
from structural reforms in financial, product and labour markets?
Presentation
(pdf file 48 kb) Speech
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Muhammad Al-Jasser, Vice Governor, Saudi-Arabian
Monetary Authority |
Global imbalances: the role of oil exporters |
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Part 2: The state
of the global economy: risks and challenges |
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Klaus Regling, Director General, DG ECFIN,
European Commission |
Introduction -
Presentation
(pdf file 79 kb) |
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Panel discussion introduced by Klaus Regling, speakers
from Part 1, questions from the floor. |
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SESSION II
ADJUSTMENT AND INTEGRATION DYNAMICS IN EMU
Chair: Marco Buti, Deputy Director General, DG ECFIN, European
Commission
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Joaquin Almunia, Commissioner for Economic and
Monetary Affairs |
Keynote address - Making EMU fit for the 21st century.
(pdf file 82 kb) |
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Part 1: Growth
dynamics, inflation differentials and fiscal adjustment |
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Christopher Allsopp, New
College, Oxford |
Intercountry adjustment, fiscal policy and the real
exchange rate - Presentation
(pdf file 215 kb)
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Willem H. Buiter, London School of Economics |
Mundell on his head: Asymmetric shocks are good for you – thanks
to Economic and Monetary Union in Europe -
Presentation
(pdf file 52 kb)
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Giuseppe Bertola, Universita di Torino |
Structural and institutional change in EMU labour
markets -
Presentation
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Philip R. Lane, Trinity
College, Dublin |
Implications of financial integration for adjustment dynamics -
Presentation
(pdf file 182 kb)
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Jean Pisani-Ferry,
Director, BRUEGEL |
Who should care about divergencies? -
Presentation
(pdf file 270 kb)
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Panel discussion introduced by Marco Buti, speakers
from Part I, questions from the floor |
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Part 2: Growth
dynamics, inflation differentials and fiscal adjustment |
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Peer Steinbrück, Minister of Finance, Presidency
of the European Union, Germany |
Keynote address - Safeguarding the success of EMU and
the economic prosperity of Europe. |
Giorgios Alogoskoufis, Minister of Finance,
Greece
Pervenche Berès, MEP, Chairwoman, Committee on Economic and
Monetary Affairs
Ernest-Antoine Seillière, President, BusinessEurope
Reiner Hoffmann, Deputy Secretary General, ETUC |
Panel interventions:
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Friday 1 June 2007
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SESSION III
FOSTERING CATCHING-UP AND COHESION IN THE EU
Chair: Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy
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Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy |
Introduction - Fostering Catching-up and cohesion in
the EU
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Part 1:
Phases of integration |
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Mitja Gaspari, former governor, Banka Slovenjie |
From EU accession to euro adoption -
Presentation
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Plamen Oresharski,
Minister of Finance, Bulgaria |
Bulgaria and Romania after accession: the next steps -
Presentation
(pdf file 1710 kb)
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Sebastian Vladescu,
Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Romania |
Bulgaria and Romania after accession: the next steps -
Presentation
(pdf file 146 kb)
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Part 2: Successes
and tensions in the catching-up process: a few lessons so far |
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Marek Belka, Executive Secretary, UN
Commission for Europe |
Problems with EMU enlargement |
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Erik Berglöf, Chief
Economist, EBRD |
Catching-up and the fear of being left behind -
Presentation
(pdf file 83 kb)
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Vitor Gaspar, Director General, BEPA,
European Commission |
Adjusting to the euro: contrasting responses in
Portugal and Spain -
Presentation
(pdf file 330 kb)
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Michael Landesmann,
Scientific Director, WIIW, Vienna |
Structural and labour market adjustments in the
catching-up process -
Presentation
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SESSION IV
GLOBASLISATION AND TRADE
Chair: Joaquin Almunia,
Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs
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Pascal Lamy, General Director, WTO |
Keynote address: Spreading the benefits of trade
opening |
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