10th Anniversary of the Euro
Friday, November 14 – Saturday, November 15, 2008
Middlebury College
Friday
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Heikki Oksanen "Population Ageing and Pension Reforms in Europe - the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?" European Commission, Belgium. Please RSVP to Martha Baldwin: baldwin@middlebury.edu
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Keynote speech by Mr. Peter Kenen "Ten Years of European Monetary Union: What's Gone Right and What's Gone Wrong?" [ Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Emeritus, Princeton University, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York]
6:00 departure to the Swift House Inn
7:00 dinner at Swift House
Saturday, 8:00 – 8:30 – gather at Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Daniel Barbezat "The intertwined path of European Financial and market integration: the Euro ten years after" / Discussants: Kirsten Wandschneider -- Caroline Kirkendoll & Conor Lyons
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM Kirsten Wandschneider (with NiKolaus Wolf) "Shooting on a moving target: Explaining European bank rates during the interwar period" / Discussants: Robert Prasch -- Kiko Velgue & Sebastian Paulsson
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Thierry Warin "Fiscal convergence and debt's burden" / Discussants: Amy Verdun -- Prerna Seth & Hasibulla Humayoon
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Heikki Oksanen "Setting medium-term objectives for government budgets under the EU Stability and Growth Pact and ageing populations" / Discussants: Peter Matthews -- Daniela Fiedler, Divvya Dasan & Julio Navarro
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Lunch at Ross dining hall
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Martin Schain "Schengen, Amsterdam and the shaping of European immigration policy during the past decade" / Discussants: Peter Matthews -- Ann Garcia, Chencheng Xu & Flora Campbell
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Andrew Martin "EMU's flawed economic constitution: Macroeconomic policy disabled" / Discussants: Robert Prasch -- Jennie Goldstein, Sieuwerd Gaastra & Maya Kushmaul
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM George Ross "France vs the Euro: A decade of mutual frustration" / Discussants: Thierry Warin -- Julie Ellenbeger, Sophie Thompson, Joel Valverde & Jeremy Martin
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Amy Verdun "Ten years EMU: An assessment" / Discussants: Daniel Barbezat -- Abigail Mayer, Francis Silva & Dilanthi Ranaweera
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM Panel "The future of Europe: multispeed integration?"
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM Conclusion
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Free time
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM Meet at Inn and drive to Café Provence
7:30 PM Dinner at Café Provence
Sunday, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM – gather at the Inn on the Green for a farewell breakfast