16h00 – 16h10
Welcome remarks
Herman Daems, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas Fortis
16h10 – 16h40
Thoughts on the European Fiscal and Financial Crises
Edward Prescott, W. P. Carey Professor of Economics at Arizona State
University, 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient
16h40 – 17h10
Crises of Governments
Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University
17h10 – 17h40
Markets with Search Friction and the Great Recession
Dale Mortensen, Ida C. Cook Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient
17h40 – 18h10
Coffee break
18h10 – 18h40
What Future for European Labour Markets?
Christopher Pissarides, Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient
18h40 – 19h10
Economic Policy Challenges for Belgium
Gert Peersman, Professor of Economics, Ghent University and
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Associate Professor of Finance, New York University
19h10
Reception