Friday May 9-10, 2008

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am. Welcome
Trisha Craig, Executive Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University Andrew Martin, Harvard University, and Jon Erik Dølvik, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research Oslo

9:40 am.
Introduction: Framing the Issues
Chair: Andrew Martin

John Stephens, University of North Carolina

10:00 am. What’s Wrong with the Continental Social Models? I

Chair: Uwe Optenhögel, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

Germany: Wendy Carlin, University College London "German Economic Performance: Disentangling the Role of Supply-side Reforms, Macroeconomic Policy and Coordinated Market Economy Institutions" (written with David Soskice)

France: Éloi Laurent, OFCE, Sciences Po, Paris "North by Northwest: What's Wrong with the 'French Model' and How Can the Nordic Model Help?" (written with Jean-Paul Fitoussi)

Discussant: Pepper D. Culpepper, Harvard University

11:15 am. Coffee Break

11:30 am. What’s Wrong with the Continental Social Models? II

Chair: Michele Lamont, Harvard University

Italy: Marino Regini, University of Milan
"The Uneasy Co-Existence of Different Models" (written with Sabrina Colombo

Spain: Ana M. Guillén, Universidad De Oviedo, Spain
"Welfare Capitalism Spanish Style: A Balance and an Interpretation"

Discussant: Sofia Pèrez, Boston University

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm. Lunch

2:00 pm. How Far Does the Nordic Model Reconcile Efficiency and Equity? I

Chair: Martin Rhodes, University of Denver

Joakim Palme, Center for Future Studies, Stockholm
"The Enabling Welfare State and the Credo of Work"

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Center for Social Research
"The Nordic Model and the Challenges of Gender and Immigration"

Discussant: Nathalie Morel, Center for European Studies, Sciences Po

3:15 pm. Coffee Break

3:30 pm. How Far Does the Nordic Model Reconcile Efficiency and Equity? II

Chair: Jelle Visser, University of Amsterdam

Jon Erik Dølvik, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research ,Oslo
"The Negotiated Nordic Labor Market – from Bust to Boom"

Karl Ove Moene, University of Oslo
"Equal and Efficient: The Equality Multiplier" (written with Erling Barth)

Discussant: Torben Iversen, Harvard University

5:00 pm. The Nordic Model in a Globalizing World: General Discussion

5:45 pm. Reception

Saturday May 10, 2008

9:00 am. Continental Breakfast

9:30 am. Reforming the Continental Social Models: Is the Nordic Model Relevant I

Chair: Andrew Martin

Germany: Anke Hassel, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
"Liberalizing a Coordinated Market Economy: The Transformation of the German Welfare and Employment Regime"

France: More Liberalized than Social Democratized?
Bruno Palier, Sciences Po, Paris

Discussant: George Ross, Brandeis University

10:45 am. Coffee Break

11:00. Reforming the Continental Social Models: Is the Nordic Model Relevant? II

Chair: Wendy Carlin, University College, London

Italy
Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna
"Italy: No Policy Stability, No Model"

Spain
Luis Moreno, Centre for Social and Human Sciences, Spain "The Nordic Path of Spain's Mediterranean Welfare State"

Discussant: Sebastian Royo, Suffolk University

12:15 pm. Lunch

1:30 pm. Round Table: Prospects, Problems and Pathways for the Reform of the European Social Models

Chairs: Andrew Martin and Jon Erik Dølvik

John Stephens, University of North Carolina
Ana M. Guillén, Universidad De Oviedo, Spain
Anke Hassel, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Karl Ove Moene, University of Oslo
Jelle Visser, University of Amsterdam

3:00 pm Closing Reception