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The Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics invite you to the conference

Greece and the Euro From Crisis to Recovery

April 12, 2019, 9:00am-18:30pm, Asean Auditorium, Cabot Builiding, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford 02155 MA

The conference is organised by Prof. George Alogoskoufis, Karamanlis Chair, Fletcher School, and Prof. Kevin Featherstone, Venizelos Chair, London School of Economics. The conference has been organized with financial support from the Onassis Foundation. The purpose of the conference is to assess the causes of the Greek crisis and the prospects for the Greek economy after the conclusion of the economic adjustment programs in 2018.

The morning plenary sessions are open and do not require registration. There will be two parallel series of more specialised afternoon sessions on the economics and politics of reform in . Those interested in registering for all sessions may do so through the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greece-and-the-euro-from-crisis-to-recovery- registration-59782800967?aff=affiliate1

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Greece and the Euro: From Crisis to Recovery

Asean Auditorium, Fletcher School, Tufts University, April 12, 2019

Plenary Sessions Program

9:00am-9:15am, Introductory Remarks

Ian Johnstone (Acting Dean, Fletcher)

9:15-10:00am, Keynote Address Chair: Steve Block (Academic Dean, Fletcher)

Lucas Papademos (Former Prime Minister of Greece) Greece and the Euro

10:00am-10:15am, Coffee Break

10:15am-12:30pm, Greece and the Euro Area: Overview Panels

Economic Overviews, 10:15am-11:45am Chair: Yannis Ioannides (Tufts)

George Alogoskoufis (Fletcher and AUEB), George Chouliarakis, (Ministry of Finance, ) Nicos Christodoulakis (AUEB),

Political, Historical and Cultural Overviews, 11:45am-12:45pm Chair: Constantine Arvanitopoulos (Panteion University)

Kevin Featherstone (LSE) Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford) Panayiotis Roilos (Harvard)

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1:30pm-2:45pm, The Euro Area After the Crisis Chair: George Chouliarakis

Yannis Ioannides Reforms, Deficits and Debt: a Unifying Framework for a Fiscal and Monetary Union Athanasios Orphanides Overcoming the Euro Crisis. George Alogoskoufis and Laurent Jacque Economic and Financial Asymmetries in the Euro Area George Pagoulatos The Euro Area after the Crisis: An Economic and Political Stocktaking

2:45pm-3:45pm, Fiscal, Financial and Labor Market Reforms Chair: Ploutarchos Sakellaris

Apostolis Philippopoulos, George Economides Fiscal and Institutional Preconditions for a sustained recovery Eleni Louri Financial Preconditions for a Sustained Recovery Vassilis Monastiriotis The Labor Market and Greece’s Unemployment Problem

3:45pm-4:00pm, Coffee Break

4:00pm-5:00pm, Productivity, Income Redistribution and Growth Chair:

Nikolaos Leounakis and Ploutarchos Sakellaris, Greek Economic Growth: Past and Future Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa and Panos Tsakloglou, Income Re-Distribution: From Crisis to Recovery

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1:30pm-2:45pm, Institutional Reforms for a Sustained Recovery Chair: Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos

Stella Ladi and Manto Lampropoulou Market Regulation via Independent Agencies in Post-Crisis Greece Calliope Spanou Competing Frames and Domestic Discretion: Public administration reform in Greece Georgia Kaplanoglou Fiscal Institutions and the Monitoring Public Finances: The case of Greece

2:45pm-3:45pm, Political Reforms for a Sustained Recovery Chair: Stathis Kalyvas

Spyros Kosmides Public attitudes towards domestic reform: Continuity and Change Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos State-society relations and Domestic Reform Coalitions in Greece in Comparative Perspective Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou External Discipline and the Greek bailouts: Process makes Politics

3:45pm-4:00pm, Coffee Break

4:00pm-5:00pm, Greece’s Foreign Relations after the Crisis Chair: Stratos Efthymiou

Katerina Sokou Fast Forward: The Return of Geopolitics in US-Greece Relations Spyros Economides Greece’s Foreign Relations after the Crisis

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Rapporteur’s Reports General Discussion

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