The Development of the U.S. and European
Economies in Comparative Perspective
First Annual Berkeley-Vienna Conference
University of California, Berkeley
September 9-10, 2004, 223 Moses Hall
September 9, 2004
9:30 am - Opening Remarks
Barry Eichengreen and Dieter Stiefel
10:00 am - Europe´s Welfare State
Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis; Discussant:
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Université ParisDauphine
10:45 am - Migration, Labor Market
and Migrants´ Integration in Europe:
A Comparison with the US
Rainer Münz, Vienna and Hamburg Institute of International
Economics (HWWA); Discussant: Giovanni Peri, UC Davis
11:30 am - Coffee Break
12:00 pm - The Evolution of Corporate Ownership in the United
States
Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley; Discussant:
Klaus Gugler, University of Vienna
12:45 pm - Lunch
2:15 pm - Development of
European Competition Policy
Andreas Resch, University of Economics
and Business Administration, Vienna; Discussant: Dan Rubinfeld,
UC Berkeley
3:00 pm - A Comparative Perspective on Technology Regimes
and Productivity
Growth in Europe and the US
Bart van Ark, University of Groningen; Discussant: Bronwyn
Hall, UC Berkeley
3:45 pm - Coffee Break
4:15 pm - Capital Deepening
and Productivity Growth in Early Manufacturing: The American
Case
Bob Margo, Vanderbilt; Discussant:
Michael Landesmann, wiiw Vienna
September 10, 2004
9:30 am - Industrialization
and Urbanization in the US
Sukkoo Kim, Washington University and NBER; Discussant: Jan
Pieter Smits, University of Groningen
10:15 am - Economic Policy
Contrasts Across the Atlantic
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Université ParisDauphine; Discussant:
Jonah Levy, UC Berkeley
11:00 am - Coffee break
11:30 am - Old and New Conflicts of Interest Between the US
and Europe, 1945-2003
Michael Gehler, University of Innsbruck; Discussant: Ron Hassner,
UC Berkeley
12.:30 pm - End of Conference
