83rd International Atlantic Economic Conference

March 22 - 25, 2017 | Berlin, Germany

141 PLENARY PANEL: THE MACROECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BREXIT

Thursday, 23 March 2017: 14:30-16:00
Chair:
Ansgar Belke,
Organizer:
Ansgar Belke,
Speakers:
Ansgar Belke,

Michael Burda, Humboldt University of Berlin—Germany

Presentation Title: EU and European disintegration: A house of horrors

Biography: Dr. Michael Burda is a Professor of Economics at Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 1993 he has served as Director of the Institute of Economic Theory II at Humboldt University and since 2007 he has been a visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT). His research centers on macroeconomics and the economics of labor markets. In 1998, he received the Gossen Prize of the German Social Policy Association. In 2009 he coauthored the textbook Macroeconomics: A European Text, Oxford Press. Professor Burda is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.

Michael Wohlgemuth, Open Europe Berlin—Germany

Presentation Title: After Brexit: Europe à la carte?

Biography: Dr. Michael Wohlgemuth is Director of Open Europe Berlin and Professor of International Governance in the Law and Economics department at the University of Bayreuth. He is also managing Research Associate at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg and Research Associate at the Center for European Studies in Brussels. His major fields of research are in new institutional economics, economic theory of politics, economic systems theory, evolutionary economics, social and legal philosophy, and history of ideas.

Henrik Enderlein, Jacques Delors Institute and Hertie School of Governance—Germany

Presentation Title: Unscrambling scrambled eggs: Why the Brexit negotiations will be long and difficult

Biography: Henrik Enderlein is the Founding Director of the Jacques Delors Institute and Professor of Political Economy and Associate Dean at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Since 2013, he has been a member of the independent board to the German fiscal council ("Stabilitätsrat"). Dr. Enderlein is the Co-Editor of the Handbook of Multi-Level Governance with Routledge and Oxford University Press. He was previously the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Duke University’s Political Science Department and worked as an economist at the European Central Bank. His research focuses on economic policymaking, European monetary integration, fiscal federalism, financial markets and financial crises. In 2003, Henrik Enderlein was awarded the Max Planck Society’s Otto-Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements by young scientists.