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Economic Policy

Forty-Ninth Panel Meeting

Supported by the European Commission
Brussels, 24-25 April 2009

 

Programme
(25 minutes author/s, 15 minutes x 2 discussants, 25 minutes panel discussion)

 

Friday 24th April

 

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:20 Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs Public Banks in Germany

Harald Hau (Insead)
Marcel Thum (TU Dresden)

 

Discussants: Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics)
David Thesmar (HEC School of Management)

 

15:20 - 15:35 Coffee Break

 

15:35 - 16:55 The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries

Federico Cingano (Bank of Italy)
Marco Leonardi (University of Milan)
Julian Messina (University of Girona)
Giovanni Pica (University of Salerno)

 

Discussants: Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po)

 

16:55 - 17:10 Coffee Break

 

17:10 - 18:30 Budgeting versus implementing fiscal policy in the EU

Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam)
Massimo Giuliodori (University of Amsterdam)
Peter Wierts (De Nederlandsche Bank)

 

Discussants: Robin Boadway (Queen's University, Ontario)
Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota)

 

20:00 Dinner

 

Saturday 25th October

 

09:00 - 10:20 Reforms and Re-Elections in OECD Countries

Marco Buti (European Commission)
Alessandro Turrini (European Commission)
Paul Van den Noord (European Commission)
Pietro Biroli (Chicago University)

 

Discussants: Mathias Thoenig (University of Geneva)
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School and CEFIR)

 

10:20 - 10:35 Coffee Break

 

10:35 - 11:55 Oil and the Euro Area Economy

Gert Peersman (Universiteit Gent)
Ine Van Robays (Universiteit Gent)

 

Discussants: John Hassler (Institute for International Economic Studies)
Mark P Taylor (University of Warwick)

 

11:55 - 12:10 Coffee Break

 

12:10 - 13:30 What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts?

Stijn Claessens (IMF)
M. Ayhan Kose (IMF)
Marco E. Terrones (IMF)

 

Discussants: Vítor Gaspar (European Commission)
Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bocconi)

 

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

 

14:30 - 15:50 Drugs Policy - What Should We Do About Cannabis?

Stephen Pudney (University of Essex)

 

Discussants: Jerome Adda (University College London)
Jan Boone (Tilburg University)

 

15:50 - 16:05 Coffee Break

 

16:05 - 17:25 The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the US

Philippe Aghion (Harvard University)
Mathias Dewatripont (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University)
Andreu Mas-Colell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
André Sapir (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

 

Discussants: Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
TBC

 

19:30 Dinner

 

 

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