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21st Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe - Addressing Europe's Multiple Crises: An agenda for economic transformation, solidarity and democracy Workshop Programme (as of 20/09/2015) ************************************************************************************************** WORKSHOP 1 – Macroeconomic policies Chair: Achim Truger Schmidt, Ingo / Athabasca University If there are alternatives, why don’t more people believe in them? Jespersen, Jesper / Roskilde University The death of Fiscal policy? Truger, Achim / Berlin School of Economics and Law New ‘growth champions’ and new ‘sick men’ in Europe: A macroeconomic perspective Paetz, Christoph / Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) The wrong role model: The Swiss Debt Brake after one decade Tipaldi, Marco New economic policies, end of austerity and ecological transition Vassiliadis, Vassilis How to survive in jungle without tools-the Greek problem Erkki Laukkanen / SAK, the central organisation of Finnish trade unions Expected years in employment and unemployment over the life-cycle: What has changed in EU28 during the 2000s
WORKSHOP 2 – A critical assessment of the project of European Monetary Union Chair: Trevor Evans Appelqvist, Örjan / IDHES, Paris 1 Sorbonne On ECB as blackmailer-of-last resort and on the consequences of German-led destruction of economic solidarity within the European Union Lopes, Luís / Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra The european crises and a need for a euro reconfiguration Elisabeth Springler / UAS bfi Vienna Johannes Jäger Heterodox scenarios in debating European Integration
WORKSHOP 3 – Labour markets, demographic change and migration Chair: Marcella Corsi and Mahmoud Messkoub Hartmann, Eva / Copenhagen Business School The emerging European solidarity: Enabling conditions and their limits Cirillo, Valeria / Scuola Superiore St. Anna Naletto, Grazia / Lunaria, Roma Italy’s labour market reform: Jobs Act vs. Workers Act Giannone, Carlo / University of Sannio Some Economics of Immigration within the EU Eydoux, Anne / Centre d’études de l’emploi (Centre for employment studies) and University of Rennes 2 Migrations and the “race to the bottom” of European labour standards and social states
WORKSHOP 4 – Youth unemployment, precarity and poverty Chair: John Grahl Pye, Robbie / University of Sheffield Parker, Owen / University of Sheffield The Unfulfilled Promise of Social Rights in Crisis EU Filinis, Kyriakos / Crisis Observatory, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy Redefining the youth unemployment in Europe Mrnjavac, Zeljko / Faculty of Economics, Croatia The Implementation and problems of youth guarantee model in Croatia Bejaković, Predrag / Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb Problems with personal over-indebtedness and measures for their reduction: the case of Croatia Stigendal, Mikael / Malmö University Prospects for Combatting Causes of Inequality
WORKSHOP 5 – EU external relations and the new trade agenda Chair: Ronan O’Brien and Catherine Sifakis Siles-Brügge, Gabriel / University of Manchester De Ville, Ferdi / Ghent University The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and ‘normative’ trade conflict: a Polanyian moment in trade? Haar, Kenneth and Wesselius, Erik / Corporate Europe Observatory Cooperating to deregulate O'Brien, Ronan / Independent researcher, Brussels How international trade deals affect domestic regulation: The TTIP regulatory activities in their wider context and likely consequences Prausmüller, Oliver / Chamber of Labour Vienna (AK Wien), BEIGEWUM From GATS to TISA and TTIP: Contested state formations in the field of trade in services Bieler, Andreas / University of Nottingham Contesting ‘Free Trade’: Proposals for collective demands towards an alternative trade regime Raza, Werner / ÖFSE Austrian Foundation for Development Research The Treatment of NTMs in Trade Analysis: A Critique of the Mainstream Approach and an Outline for an Alternative Methodology Bartl, Marija / University of Amsterdam Socialising into the TTIP: The Consequences for the EU Regulatory Culture Dellheim, Judith / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Wolf, Frieder Otto / Free University of Berlin On the Eastern Partnership as an strategic area of neoliberal EU policy and development
Background paper Filipenko, Anton / Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv Ukrainian alternative: The solidarity, national economy Lorant, Karoly Fiscal prerequisites for an integrated Europe Perraton, Jonathan / Sheffield University What Happened to The Return of Keynesianism? Real and Imagined Constraints on Reflation Czeskleba-Dupont, Rolf / CNAS Subprime carbon credits should not be part of a green economy
