The Failure of the Euro? Causes and Consequences for Europe and Beyond
April 10, 2012
Experts from academia, finance, regulation media and policy will come together at Brown University on Tuesday, April 17, for a series of discussions about the global financial crisis, the European Union and the future of the euro. Co-sponsored by Brown, the Watson Institute and The Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, “The Failure of the Euro? Causes and Consequences for Europe and Beyond” has been organized by Watson Institute faculty fellow Mark Blyth and Ross Levine, the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics in Brown’s Economics Department.
The daylong conference will feature five, 75-minute panels, each of which will be presented as conversation among three presenters, two discussants, and a moderator. Panels topics will include “The Euro Crisis in Markets, in Politics and in the Media” and “The European Project: Can Europe Survive the Euro?” Lively debate is expected from such varied participants as Alfred Gusenbauer, former chancellor of Austria, Amar Bhidé, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Bethany McLean, contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, and Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
The conference will also feature a keynote speech from Martin Wolf, chief economics correspondent for the Financial Times.
A complete schedule and a full list of participants can be found at watsoninstitute.org/euro
The conference is open to the public, and begins at 8:45 a.m. at the Martinos Auditorium at The Granoff Center on Angell Street. The entire day’s events will be streamed live online at brown.edu/web/livestream All are encouraged to follow along on Twitter (@watsoninstitute), and the event’s hashtag will be #browneuro.
By Watson Student Rapporteur Lauren Fedor '12