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SPRING SEMINAR 2000 PROGRAMME

From Plan to Market: the transition process after ten years

Morning Session
10.00 hrs.
Session I:	From Plan to Market, From Regime Change to Sustained Growth in Central and Eastern Europe *(to be chaired by Mr. Y. Berthelot, Executive Secretary, ECE)*
	Author:
	- Ivan Berend, *(Hungarian Academy of Sciences and UCLA, Los Angeles)*
	Discussants:
	- Erik Berglöf, (Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics) - Jan Svejnar, (Executive Director, William Davidson Institute and Professor, University of Michigan Business School) - Paul Welfens, (Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration, University of Potsdam)

11.30 hrs.
Session II:	The Social Costs and Consequences of the Transformation Process *(to be chaired by Mr. Y. Berthelot, Executive Secretary, ECE)*
	Author:
	- Michael Ellman, *(Professor, University of Amsterdam)*
	Discussants:
	- Alexandru Athanasiu, (Professor, University of Bucharest; Minister of Labour, 1997-1999; Prime Minister ad interim, December 1999) - Martina Lubyova, (Institute for Forecasting, Bratislava) - Alena Nesporova, (Senior Specialist, Employment Strategy Department, International Labor office, Geneva )

13.00 hrs.	Lunch break

Afternoon Session
15.30 hrs.
Session III:	Macroeconomic Policies and Achievements in the Transition Economies, 1989-1999 *(to be chaired by Mr. P. Rayment, Director, EAD/ECE)*
	Author:
	- Stanislaw Gomulka, *(London School of Economics and Adviser to Minister of Finance, Poland)*
	Discussants:
	- George Kopits, (Assistant Director, Fiscal Policy Dept., IMF, Washington) - Sylvana Malle, (Head, Non-Member Economies Division, OECD, Paris) - Joze Mencinger, (Professor, Ekonomski Institut Pravne Fakultete, Ljubljana)

16.30 hrs.
Session IV:	Structural Change in the Transition Economies since 1989 *(to be chaired by Ms. D. Hübner, Deputy Executive Secretary, ECE)*
	Author:
	- Michael Landesmann, (Research Director, WIIW, Vienna)
	Discussants:
	- Leonid Grigoriev, (Director General, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Moscow) - Paul Hare, (Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) - Andras Nagy, (Professor, Institute of Economics, Budapest)