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SPRING SEMINAR 1999 PROGRAMME
Morning Session |
10.00 hrs. |
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Session I: |
The economic consequences of population ageing and the macroeconomics of pension reform |
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Keynote speaker: |
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- John EATWELL, (Member of the House of Lords, Professor of Economics and President of Queen's College, Cambridge) |
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Discussants: |
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- Colin GILLION, (Director, Social Security Dept., ILO)
- Domenico Mario NUTI, (Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza" and London Business School)
- Tomas WEISS, (Deputy Head of Economics Division, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bonn) |
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11.30 hrs. |
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Session II: |
Pension reform in market economies |
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Keynote speaker: |
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- Lawrence THOMPSON, (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.) |
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Discussants: |
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- Johann K. BRUNNER, (Professor, University of Linz)
- Joakim PALME, (Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm)
- Andras UTHOFF, (Regional Adviser, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) |
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13.00 hrs. |
Lunch break |
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Afternoon Session |
15.30 hrs. |
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Session III: |
Reforming pension systems in the transition economies: problems and policies within a broader programme of transformation |
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Keynote speaker: |
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- Maria AUGUSZTINOVICS, (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
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Discussants: |
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- Jerzy HAUSNER, (Professor, Academy of Economic Science, Cracow)
- Romas LAZUTKA, (Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Vilnius)
- Paul WACHTEL, (Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University) |
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16.30 hrs. |
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Session IV: |
Panel discussion: What are the implications for pension reforms of the global financial and economic crisis? |
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Chairman: |
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- Jean-Michel CHARPIN, (Commissaire, Commissariat Général du Plan, Paris) |
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Panelists: |
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- Jiri RUSNOK, (Deputy Minister of Labour, responsible for Social Insurance and Income Policy, Czech Republic)
- Brigitte GRANVILLE, (Head, International Economics Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, and Centre for Advanced International Studies, Moscow)
- Tatyana MALEVA, (Bureau of Economic Analysis, Moscow)
- Daniel WYDLER, (Director, Banque Pictet et Cie., Geneva) |
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