Session 3: The Outlook for Europe, New Members, and International Competitiveness
Has Europe, particularly Germany, finally come to a more sustainable recovery? Has the EU finally raised the potential rate of growth of output? What are the implications for global competitiveness, on the one hand, and the divergence among member states on the other?
Sponsor: Swedbank
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Speakers
Hubert Fromlet
Swedbank
Hubert Fromlet is chief economist at Swedbank, Stockholm, and professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Wurzburg. Prior to joining Swedbank, he was chief economist at Co-operative Bank, Stockholm and responsible for macro research at the SAAB-SCANIA, Sweden.
Joachim Scheide
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Joachim Scheide has been the head of the Business Cycle Department of the Kiel Institute for World Economics since February 1999. He represents the Kiel Institute at the joint economic forecast of the six leading research institutes in Germany which is presented to the public twice a year. His main research areas are the analysis and the forecast of the world economy, in particular the US, Euroland and Germany, the role of monetary policy for output and inflation, and issues of national and international macroeconomic policy in general. Furthermore, he has been teaching at the University of Kiel and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada for one year.
Jürgen Kröger
European Commission
