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Program
Paris,
France, June 5-6, 2003
University of Paris 1 – Pantheon-Sorbonne – France
(with the support of ROSES,
CNRS and
University
of Paris 1)
Each
participant will be given 20 minutes presentation time, followed
by 10 minutes comment by the discussant and a short reply by the
speaker. A general discussion will allow comments and questions
by the audience.
Thursday,
June 5th
8:45 Registration
9:15 Opening
Address, Pierre-Yves Hénin, President of the Scientific Committee
of University Paris I, Director of CEPREMAP
Session 1
Factor Mobility within Enlarged E.U. : Labour and Capital
Chaired by Gérard Duchêne, ROSES
9:30-11:00
- "East-West migration
in Europe, 2004-2015 : Conclusions from Southern Enlargement"
Jana Bruder (Rostock University)
Discussant : Boris Najman, ROSES
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"Unemployment
Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives"
Axel Heitmueller (CERT, Edinburgh; IZA, Bonn)
Discussant : Valentine Henrard, TEAM-University Paris1
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"The Location of German Multinationals in Eastern European
Countries"
Farid Toubal (Kiel University)
Discussant : Olivier Lamotte, ROSES
11:00 Coffee
Break
11:30-12:30
Key Speaker : Tito Boeri, Professor at Bocconi University, Milano
Comments and general discussion
12:30 Lunch
Session 2
Convergence and Growth in the Enlarged European Union
Chaired by Jean-Pierre Laffargue, University Paris I and CEPREMAP
14:30-16:30
- "Nominal and
Real Convergence in Estonia: the Balassa-Samuelson (Dis)connection"
Balazs Egert (National Bank of Austria and MODEM- Paris X University)
Discussant : Julie Lochard, ROSES
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"Catching Up : The Role of Demand, Supply and Regulated Price
Effects on the Real Exchange Rates of Four Accession Countries"
Ronald MacDonald (Strathclyde University, Glasgow), Cezary Wojcik
(Warsaw Economic School)
Discussant : Cuong Le Van, CERMSEM-University Paris 1
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"Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing
Performance with an EU Benchmark"
Jan De Loecker (LICOS, Leuven University)
Discussant : Jan Babeckij, ROSES and CERGE
16:30 Coffee
Break
17:00-18:30
Key Speaker : Fabrizio Coricelli, University of Siena, CEU Budapest
and CEPR
Comments and general discussion
19:30 Dinner
organised for the invited participants
Friday,
June 6th
Session 3
Monetary Policies in an Enlarged E.U.
Chaired by Mathilde Maurel, ROSES and CEPR
09:30-11:00
- "Exchange Rate Pass-Through
in Candidate Countries"
Fabrizio Coricelli (Siena University, CEPR), Bostjan Jazbec (Ljubljana
University) Igor Masten (EUI, Firenze)
Discussant : Jérôme Sgard, CEPII
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"How Would a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime Fit the Transition
Economies? The Case of Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland"
Jérôme Créel ; Sandrine Levasseur (OFCE)
Discussant : Hubert Kempf, EUREQUA-University Paris 1
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"EU Enlargement and Endogeneity of OCA Criteria Evidence from
the CEEC's"
Jan Babetski (ROSES, CERGE)
Discussant : Jan Fidrmuc, ULB and CEPR
11:00 Coffee
Break
11:30-13:00
- "How
Symmetric are the Shocks and the Shock Adjustment Dynamics between
the Euro Area and the Central and Eastern European Countries"
Michael Frenkel (WHU, Vallendar); Christiane Nickel (European Central
Bank)
Discussant : J.-P. Laffargue, University Paris 1 and CEPREMAP
Key Speaker
: Daniel Gros, CEPS and Conseil d'Analyse Economique
Comments and general discussion
13:00 Lunch
Session 4
Institutions and Performance
14:30-16:00
Chaired by Claude Ménard, ATOM-University Paris I
- "Can
EU Conditionality Remedy Soft Budget Constraints in Transition Countries"
Herbert Bruecker, Phillipp J.H. Schroder, Christian Weise (DIW,
Berlin)
Discussant : Gérard Duchêne, ROSES
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"Foreign Bank Ownership: A Bonus or Threat for Financial Stability"
Claudia Buch, Jorn Kleinert (Kiel University), Peter ZAJC (Ljubljana
University)
Discussant :Xavier Greffe, University Paris 1
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"EU Enlargement, Exchange Rate Variability and Labor Market
Performance"
Ansgar Belke (Hohenheim University)
Discussant : Fabrizio Coricelli, University of Siena and CEPR
16:00 Coffee
Break
16:30-18:00
Conclusions, Wrap-Up and Future Directions :
Jan Fidrmuc (ULB, CEPR), Patrick Lenain (OECD)
18:00 Reception offered by the "Ecole doctorale d'économie
politique", University Paris 1
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