Workshops & Papers

24th Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, on 27-29 September 2018, organised by the EuroMemo Group and jointly hosted with the University of Helsinki

The second day of the EuroMemo Group conference (Friday, 28 September) was dedicated to key themes of EU policy within six different workshops (Workshop Programme as pdf-file).

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Workshop 1 - Macroeconomic policies and EMU reform

Coordinator: Achim Truger

• Jacques Mazier / University Paris 13
  
The Euro zone: from impossible reform to bifurcation

• Hubert Hieke
  
Financial Imbalances and the instability of the EU/Euro-Zone

• Christoph Paetz / University Duisburg-Essen; Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK)
  
Have fiscal rules made discretionary policy more countercyclical? Evidence from fiscal reaction functions for the Euro area

• André W. Heinemann and Leonie Backeberg / University of Bremen, Institute Labour and Economy (iaw)
  
Corporate Taxation, Economic Growth, and Inequality: Implications of Tax Competition within the European Monetary Union

• Sarah Godar / Berlin School of Economics and Law
  
The way forward: Taxing multinationals in the EU

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Workshop 2 - Monetary and financial policies

Coordinators: Marica Frangakis/ John Grahl

• Vanessa Redak / Oesterreichische Nationalbank
  
Is the financial system safer ten years after the crisis?
Presentation

• George Perendia
  
Why Are Real Interest Rates So Low? Or, are we suffering a delusion of interest rates ...

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Workshop 3 - The productive structure of the EU: analysis and policy proposals for productive transformation

Coordinator: Joachim Becker

• Davide Antonioli, Claudio Di Berardino and Gianni Onesti / University of Chieti-Pescara
  
Specialization in the Euro Area: A Vertically Integrated Sector Perspective and the Role of Knowledge Intensive Business Service

• Antje Bollen / University of Bremen, Institute Labour and Economy (iaw)
  
The Rise of Platform Economies: Analysis of Regulatory Requirements in Europe and Implications for Employment Relationships

• Scott Lavery and Patrick Kaczmarczyk / Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield
  
German Hegemony, FDI flows and Eastern European Supply Chains in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis

• Joachim Becker and Koen Smet / Vienna University of Economics and Business
  
The Socio-Economic Programmes and Praxis of the Nationalist Right in the EU: the Core-Periphery Divide

• Zhen Im / University of Helsinki
  
Automation and the Gender Gap: the compounding effect on labour market stratification on welfare preferences

• Joanna Mazurkiewicz and Piotr Lis / Poznan University of Economics and Business
  
Diversification of energy poverty in Central and Eastern European countries

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Workshop 4 - Social policies in the EU and the Nordic Welfare model: assessment and future prospects

Coordinator: Laura Horn

• Ernst Hollander / University of Gaevle
  
European lessons from Nordic Model Changes

• Eirikur Bergmann / Bifröst University
  
Iceland’s procyclical political economy and the new critical order

• Stein Reegård / LO-Norway
  
Norwegian perspective: State Aid Rules- Restricting room for social policy and public service?

• Laura Horn / Roskilde University
  
Beyond utopia? Basic income in the Nordic countries

• Bernhard Zeilinger / UAS BFI Vienna
  
Trajectories of dismantling the welfare state under the new socio-economic governance regime

• Pascal Petit / CEPN Centre d'économie de Paris Nord
  
Distribution policies to help a challenged European Union

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Workshop 5 - New democratic challenges and alternative conceptualizations for a popular political economy

Coordinator: Werner Raza

• Martin Pachel / UAS BFI Vienna
  
A sad-go-round: The austere radicalization of society

• Marcella Corsi / Sapienza University Rome, and Fabrizio Botti / Guglielmo Marconi University
  
Gender and populism in Europe

• Jorge Buzaglo
  
From Pareto economics, to Pareto politics, to fascism: A Rochambeau model of elite circulation
Presentation

• Ronan O'Brien
  
What might a socio-ecological transformation look like in a reconstructed project of European integration?

• Filippos Proedrou / University of South Wales
  
A public policy approach to climate policy: the case for a de-centralized model of energy transition in the residential sector
Presentation

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Workshop 6 - Politics of structural reforms: critique and alternatives

Coordinator: Teppo Eskelinen
in cooperation with the Finnish Society for Political Economy Research

• Olli Herranen / University of Tampere
  
Towards a consolidation Empire?

• Pia Ljungman / SOAS
  
Remodelling the EMU area: re-reading policy causes, rethinking alternatives

• Heikki Patomäki / University of Helsinki
  
Alternative approaches to structural reform

• Antti Alaja / Sorsa foundation
  
Structural reform policies in Finland - evolutionary perspectives

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Background paper

• Carlo Giannone / Università degli Studi del Sannio, Benevento
  
Interest Groups and Redistributive Choices in the EU

• John Weeks / SOAS
  
Economic rules for a better Union: facilitating policies that enhance not constrain economic policy

• Károly Lóránt
  
The bottlenecks of the European integration