Workshops & Papers

19th Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, 20-22 September 2013 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, organised by the EuroMemo Group

The second day of the EuroMemo Group conference (Saturday, 21 September) was dedicated to key themes of EU policy within within five different workshops (Workshop Programme as pdf-file).

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Workshop 1 - Economic and financial policy

Coordinator: Trevor Evans

9:00 - 10:30

• Erixson, Lennart / University of Stockholm
  
Can fiscal austerity be expansionary in present Europe? The lessons from Sweden

• Onaran, Ozlem / University of Greenwich
  
How to create more and better jobs via a wage-led recovery in Europe?

• Tomidajewicz, Janusz / Poznan University of Economics
  
What type of European economic policy is necessary for stopping the crisis?

• Acocella, Nicola / Sapienza University
  
A tale of two cities: Exit policies in Washington and Frankfurt

10:45- 12:15

• Soy, Antoni / University of Barcelona
  
The euro crisis and its future

• Mazier, Jacques / University Paris 13
  
In search of sustainable paths for the eurozone in the troubled post-2008 world
The future of the euro (in French)

• Plihon, Dominique / Paris Nord University
  
The European banking Union

• Sterdyniak, Henri / OFCE
  
Banking union: a solution to the euro zone crisis?

12:15 - 1:00

Policy proposals for afternoon plenary

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Workshop 2 - Governance and democracy in the EU

Coordinator: John Grahl

9:00 - 10:30

• Grahl, John / Middlesex University
  
The European semester & institutional reform in the EU

• Kompsopoulos, Jannis / University of Tübingen
  
The EU´s crisis policies that work - but for whom?

10:45 - 12:15

• Mathieu, Catherine / OFCE
  
Redemption

• Reiners, Suleika / World Future Council
  
Making central banks serve the real economy

12:15 - 1:00

Policy proposals for afternoon plenary

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Workshop 3 - Tax policy, employment and social inequalities

Coordinators: Jeremy Leaman & Mahmood Messkoub

9.00 - 10.30 Tax policy

• Picciotto, Sol / Tax Justice Network & Lancaster University
  
Transnational Corporations and International Taxation

• Ioannidis, Yiorgos / Labour Institute of the Greek Confederation of Workers
  
The peculiar distributional character of Greek taxation system (1995-2008) and the necessary reform that never happened

10.45 - 12.15 Employment and social inequality

• Česen, Tanja, formerly Ministry of Labour, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
Social contract and social progress in modern Europe

• Herrmann, Peter / EURISPES - Instituto di Studi Politici, Economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità Sociale
  
Precarity - An Issue of Changed Labour Market and Employment Patterns or of Changed Social Security Systems?

• Tridico, Pasquale / University Roma Tre
  
Italy: From Economic Decline to the Current Crisis. A comparison with France and Germany

12.15 - 1.00

Policy proposals for afternoon plenary

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Workshop 4 - Industrial policy and social-ecological transformation

Coordinator: Frieder Otto Wolf

9:00 - 10:30

• Pianta, Mario / University of Urbino
  
What’s to be produced? Ideas for a new industrial policy in Europe

• Botta, Alberto / Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and University of Pavia
  
The Road to Structural Convergence in the Eurozone. Industrial Policies in a future Eurozone Federal State

10:45 - 12:15

• Dellheim, Judith / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Frieder Otto Wolf / Free University Berlin
  
Industry Policy pro or contra Socioecological Transformation?

• Dymski, Gary / Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
  
Financing Mechanisms for Local and Regional Development: Lessons from History and from the global-South

12:15 - 1:00

Policy proposals for afternoon plenary

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Workshop 5 - The EU-US free trade agreement and EU external relations/ Eastern Europe

Coordinators: Werner Raza/ Wlodzimierz Dymarski

9:00 - 11:00 The EU-US free trade agreement and EU external relations

• Bartl, Marija / University of Amsterdam and
Fahey, Elaine / University of Amsterdam
Political-legal issues of the transatlantic partnership

Background reading: Pianta, Mario: Slowing trade: Global activism against trade libera lization

Policy proposals for plenary

11:00 - 1:00 Eastern Europe

• Bobkov, Vyacheslav / PJSC "All-Russian Centre of Living Standard" and Veredyuk, Olesya / St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Economics
  
Social Vulnerability as a Result of Inequality of Living Standards

• Csoba, Judit / University of Debrecen, Hungary
  
From Welfare to Workfare

• Dymarski, Wlodzimierz / Poznan University of Economics
  
Impact of the global crisis on economic performance of Central and East European countries

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Background papers

• Baldocchi, Umberto / University of Pavia
  
Rule of law and "rule of debt”: the crucial challenge facing EU in the beginning of XXI century

• Bejakovic, Predrag / Institute of Public Finance Zagreb
  
The importance of social transfers in reducing poverty in Croatia

• Best, Michael
  
Productive Structures and Industrial Policy in the EU

• Bömer, Hermann / formerly TU Dortmund
  
Productive Resources, Productive Structures, Product- and Process Innovations - Experiences of Germany´s industrial and regional policies for crises regions and leading export-areas

• Doukas, Yannis / University of Athens
  
WTO negotiations on Agricultural Products: The Political Economy of the EU’s position

• Esposito, Giovanni / Solvay Brussels School Economics and Management, ULB and Carobolante, Anna / Si può fare, ora!
  
Corporate Social Responsibility: status quo and prospective developments

• Filipenko, Anton / Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
  
Ukraine at the crossroads: between the EU and Russia

• Giannone, Carlo / Università del Sannio - Benevento
  
Common Market and the Need for Fiscal Federalism in the EU

• Godin, Antoine / University of Pavia
  
Production Functions at the Business End: the Case of the European Fiscal Compact

• Husar, Jaroslav / University of Economics Bratislava
  
Is the Fiscal Union the Principal Problem in the EU?

• Koutentakis, Franciscos / University of Crete
  
Unemployment Dynamics in the Greek Crisis

• Laukkanen, Erkki / SAK, the central organisation of Finnish trade unions
  
Detected corruption in the Nordic countries and elsewhere: How do we stand out?

• Lawson, Neal / Compass
  
Europe as a Good Society - The joint transformation of the social democratic and European projects

• Mouhoud, E.M. / University of Paris Dauphine, LEDa-DIAL and GDRI DREEM CNRS
  
Offshorability and reshorability of services and manufacturing jobs : the French case

• Nielsen, Klaus / Birkbeck, University of London
  
The Eurozone Crisis - Contribution and Reinterpretation of Varieties of Capitalism

• Pasimeni, Paolo / European Commission - DG Employment and Social Affairs
  
An Optimum Currency Crisis

• Supinska, Jolanta / Warsaw University, Institute of Social Policy
  
The Portrait of Polish Neoliberals - revised

• Tolios, Yiannis / Special State Financial Institution of Athens
  
The neo-liberal "prescriptions" to save the Eurozone and the need of refundation it in the interests of peoples and workers