THE STATE | NEW PARADIGM WORKSHOP

New Roles for the State: Rethinking Government at the Turning of Ages

24/05/2022 – 25/05/2022

PLACE

Hybrid Event ALICE Rooftop & Garden, Kantstraße 17, Berlin and via Zoom

LANGUAGE

English

X New Paradigm Workshop: New Roles for the State – Rethinking Government at the Turning of Ages

After decades of market liberalization, in which the prevailing leitmotif was for the state to increasingly withdraw from as many areas of the economy and society as possible, the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 acted as a catalyst for questioning the dictum of the efficient market. Since then, the primordial confidence in the market’s healing power has clearly waned, making way for more frequent state intervention.
However, this change still lacks a coherent new guiding principle – and a better understanding of when exactly state action is economically justifiable necessary – and when it is not. What should a new balance between the state and the market look like? How can state action be organized more efficiently? What alternative actors beyond the traditional administration can play a role in this? These and other fundamental questions will be discussed at the X New Paradigm Workshop on May 24-25.

1:30 pm

INTRODUCTION

THOMAS FRICKE (FORUM NEW ECONOMY)

1:50 pm

Searching for a New Paradigm on Markets and the State – Where Do We Stand?

PAUL DE GRAUWE (LSE)

WENDY CARLIN (UCL)

XAVIER RAGOT (OFCE)

HENNING VÖPEL (CEP)

MODERATION: TOM KREBS (UNI MANNHEIM & FORUM NEW ECONOMY)

3:15 pm

COFFEE BREAK – with view over Berlin

3.45 pm

More? Less? Better? – Designing a Modern Pro-Active State

THURID HUSTEDT (HERTIE SCHOOL)

WOLFGANG DRECHSLER (UCL INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND PUBLIC PURPOSE)

MAX KRAHÉ (DEZERNAT ZUKUNFT)

FRITZI KÖHLER-GEIB (KFW)

5:15 pm

NEW PARADIGM SPEED DATING: A New Washington Consensus? – On How to Rethink the Worldbank’s Doing Business Index

ALAN AUERBACH (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)

5:45 pm

BREAK

6 pm

We Are the State – Actors Beyond the Government

KEYNOTE AND TALK WITH:FRANCESCA BRIA (ITALIAN NATIONAL INNOVATION FUND) & CHRISTIAN KASTROP (FORMER STATE SECRETARY FOR DIGITiZATION AND PARTICIPATION)

MODERATION: GEORG DIEZ (THE NEW INSTITUTE)

7 pm

Neither Market nor State – The Impact and Limits of Civil Society Actors

GERHARD SCHICK (FINANZWENDE) – TALK WITH THOMAS FRICKE (FORUM NEW ECONOMY)

7:45 pm

DINNER SESSION* A New Government’s Agenda in Troubled Times

*by invitation or on confirmed request only

AGNÈS BÉNASSY-QUÉRÉ (CHIEF ECONOMIST AT THE FRENCH TREASURY)

MAJA GÖPEL (LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG)

TIMO LOCHOCKI (BARD COLLEGE)

ARMIN STEINBACH (HEC PARIS, FORMERLY FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE)

ACHIM TRUGER (UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG-ESSEN, GERMAN COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EXPERTS)

MODERATION: NICOLA BRANDT (OECD, BERLIN)

9 am

INTRODUCTION

9:30 am

Regional Disruptions – A Pro-Active Government Beyond Redistribution

PRESENTATION: JENS SÜDEKUM (DICE, DÜSSELDORF)

THIEMO FETZER (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)

ENZO WEBER (IAB NÜRNBERG)

MONIKA SCHNITZER (LMU MÜNCHEN)

MODERATION: CHRISTIAN BREUER (ZBW)

10:30 am

SPEED DATING: On the impact of sanctions -The Case of Putin’s Russia

INPUT: ROBERT GOLD (IFW KIEL)

DISCUSSANTS:

KLAUS-JÜRGEN GERN (IWF KIEL)

ERDAL YALÇIN (HTWG KONSTANZ)

11 :15am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am

Fighting Inflation – A Case for the Government?

PETER BOFINGER (UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG)

SEBASTIAN DULLIEN (IMK DÜSSELDORF)

ISABELLA WEBER (UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST)

GUNTRAM WOLFF (BRUEGEL, BRUSSELS)

MODERATION: SHAHIN VALLEE (DGAP)

1 pm

LUNCH BREAK

2:00 pm

Modern Climate Policy Beyond Carbon Pricing

PRESENTATION: TOM KREBS (FORUM NEW ECONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM)

BRIGITTE KNOPF (MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE)

ERIC LONERGAN (M&G INVESTMENTS LONDON)

JÖRG PETERS (RWI – LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH)

4 pm

Strategic partners meeting – State of new thinking

On invitation only