The Way Back: How to Restore the Global Economy?

If finance was the first casualty of the global crisis, trade was certainly the second. Global trade has contracted sharply in the past year and has not started to recover yet. Many governments have also imposed protectionist measures during the crisis. While a 1930 style scenario of tit-for-tat tariff protectionism has not been triggered, the scale and profile of many trade-restrictive measures might damage trade to such a degree that a return to pre-crisis levels of trade might take many years.

As world economies are on the path to recovery, what needs to be done to restore the global economy – to make trade and global competition vehicles for growth? What are the challenges confronting the global economy in a post-crisis environment? And what needs to be done, beyond exit strategies, to kick-start the agenda for liberalization of global commerce?

You are cordially invited to an ECIPE conference on the future of the global economy. 

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Presentations From the Conference

Conference Programme

09:30 Registration

10:00 Emerging Protectionism and a Deglobalizing World

      Chair: Fredrik Erixon 

      Panel:

      Razeen Sally, Director, ECIPE

      Patrick Messerlin, Professor, Sciences Po

      Vivian Davies, COO, CEPR/Global Trade Alert

11:30 Break

11:45 Will the Single Market Survive the Crisis?

Keynote address: Hans Stråberg, Chief Executive Officer, Electrolux 

      Panel:

      Fredrik Erixon, Director, ECIPE

      Simon Tilford, Chief Economist, CER

      Representative, European Commission, DG Comp 

13:30 Lunch

14:30 A New Deal for Global Trade

Keynote address: Ewa Björling, Minister for Trade, Sweden

          Panel:

          Lucian Cernat, Chief Economist, European Commission (tbc)

          Guy de Jonquières, Senior Fellow, ECIPE

          Roderick Abbott, Senior Adviser, ECIPE

16:30 End note