2001

The European Macroeconomy: Integration, Employment and Policy Coordination

9th and 10th November 2001 – University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics, UFSIA-RUCA, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

Organized by Faculty of Applied Economics UFSIA-RUCA (University of Antwerp - UA) and Center for Empirical Macroeconomics (CEM, University of Bielefeld)

Organizers: Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO (University of Antwerp - UA), Joseph PLASMANS (University of Antwerp - UA), Willi SEMMLER (University of Bielefeld)

Program

Friday, November 9

Conference location: Room C001 for inscription and all lectures with the exception of the plenary one, which will be held in Room C002.

14.00 Welcome by André VAN POECK, Dean of the Faculty (Antwerp), and Willi SEMMLER, Director of CEM (Bielefeld)

14.05-15.00 Plenary lecture: Marco BUTI (European Commission), “Setting fiscal targets and formulating fiscal policy in the EMU”

15.00-15.30 Jérôme HENRY (European Central Bank), “Model uncertainty and the equilibrium value of the real effective Euro exchange rate” (with C. Detken, A. Dieppe, C. Marin and F. Smets)

15.30-16.00 Jacob DE HAAN (University of Groningen) , “A non-transparent European Central Bank? Who is to blame?” (with F. Amtenbrink)

16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea Break

16.30-17.00 Nicola ACOCELLA (University of Rome La Sapienza), “Public expenditure and wage setting in a monetary union” (with G. Di Bartolomeo)

17.00-17.30 Reinhard NECK (University of Klagenfurt), “Monetary and fiscal policy rules in the European economic and monetary union: A simulation analysis” (with G. Haber and W.J. McKibbin)

17.30-18.00 Michel BEINE (University of Lille 2 and Free University of Brussels), “Should Canadian regions adopt the U.S. Dollar?” (with S. Coulombe)

19.30 Workshop reception and dinner

Saturday, November 10

9.00-9.30 Gert PEERSMAN (Bank of England), “The transmission of monetary policy in the Euro area: Are the effects different across countries?”

9.30-10.00 Peter FLASCHEL (University of Bielefeld), “The European macroeconomy. A structural framework for future research” (with C. Chiarella and W. Semmler)

10.00-10.30 Reiner FRANKE (University of Bremen), “Stepwise calibration of a higher-order Keynes-Metzler-Goodwin model”

10.30-11.00 Patrizio TIRELLI (University of Milan Bicocca), “Who’s afraid of the big bad central bank? Union-firm-central bank interactions and inflation in a monetary union” (with F. Carmignani and V.A. Muscatelli)

11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea Break

11.30-12.00 Christian R. RICHTER (University of Strathclyde and University of Klagenfurt) , “A comparative dynamics analysis of British and German monetary policy in the 1990s: A spectral analysis approach” (with A. Hughes Hallett)

12.00-12.30 Luca ONORANTE (European University Institute, Florence), “Interaction of fiscal policies on the Euro area: How much pressure on the ECB?”

12.30-13.00 Linda A. TOOLSEMA (University of Groningen) , “Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU: New evidence” (with J.E. Sturm and J. De Haan)

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.00 Piotr WDOWINSKI (University of Lodz), “EU enlargement and trade balance effects in the Polish economy – Simulations with the model of regional trade” (with W. Milo)

15.00-15.30 Gabriela FLORESCU (ICI Bucharest), “The European employment and newly associated states strategies - The Romanian case” (with V. Florescu)

15.30-16.00 Jesús CRESPO-CUARESMA (University of Vienna), “Growth, convergence and EU membership” (with M.A. Dimitz and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald)

16.00 Workshop Closing by Joseph PLASMANS, Organizer (UA), and Drinks