Fall, 2005 Conferences

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Friday, November 11

Political Economy and Social Policy of Western Europe
Wylie Hall - Room 005
This one-day conference is being sponsored by the College of Arts
and Sciences; West European Studies; Department of Economics; Department of Political Science; Department of Business Economics
and Public Policy; School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Office
of International Programs.
The conference organizers are:
Roy Gardner, Chancellor’s Professor of Economics and Remak Professor of West European Studies (gardner@indiana.edu);
Gerhard Glomm, Professor of Economics (gglomm@indiana.edu); and Jeffrey Hart, Professor of Political Science (hartj@indiana.edu).

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8:45 a.m. Welcoming remarks  
9:00-10:15 a.m. Tito Boeri 
(Bocconi University, Milan)		 The Lisbon Process and European Women at Work

PowerPoint slides
Discussant: Jeff Hart,
Indiana University, Political Science
10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break  
10:30-11:45 a.m. Neil Gilbert (University of
California, Berkeley)		 Transformation of the Welfare State

PowerPoint slides
Discussant: Gerhard Glomm,
Indiana University, Economics
12:30-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break  
1:30-2:45 p.m. Janet Gornick
(City University of New York)		 Welfare Regimes in Relation to Paid Work and Care
Discussant: David Audretsch,
Indiana University, SPEA
2:45-3:00 p.m. Coffee Break  
3:00-4:15 p.m. Patrick Minford
(University of Cardiff)		 Europe’s Unemployment: Can the Vicious Circle be Broken?
Discussant: Michael McGinnis,
Indiana University, Political Science
4:30-5:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion
Moderator: Roy Gardner,
Indiana University, Economics, and West		 Lessons Learned - What the Western European Experience Teaches Us
Going Forward
Panelists: David Audretsch (Indiana University, SPEA), Michele Fratianni (Indiana University, Business Economics and Public Policy),
and George von Furstenberg
(Indiana University, Economics)

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