Which Capitalisms for the XXIth Century ?

The  7th Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence happened the 6th, 7th and 8th of July 2007

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 PROGRAM

Friday, 6th (Aix – Marseille Law and Political Science School, Paul Cezanne University, 3 avenue Robert Schuman)

 9:00 am The Lawyer’s Workshop.

1. Law and regulations in the perspective of economic efficiency, growth and development (Differences and interaction between Law and regulations – Rigidity of the Law vs economic dynamism – Financial markets as regulating factors: the Law of mergers and acquisitions).
2. The various forms of capitalism vs the different legal systems (Corporate law and the protection of minority shareholders – Bankruptcy Laws)
3. Competition Laws and the protection of the parties involved (CEOs and clemency programs – The protection of minority shareholders – Class actions and the protection of consumers).
4. Are legal systems a support for innovation? The law and economy of knowledge – Intellectual property rights and innovation (The eBay and Internet trademarks) – Sanctions by compensation of damage incurred.
5. The unity of economic and civil rules in an unequal world

 speakers:

• Guy Canivet (Constitutional Council)
• Paul Joskow (MIT)
• Frédéric Jenny (Cour de Cassation)
• Claude Lazarus (Conseil de l’ordre des avocats)
• Philippe Li (Kim & Chang)
• Damien Neven (Directorate General for Competition, Brussels)
• Jean-Claude Paye (former OECD Secretary-General)
• Marc Pena (Dean, Law and Political Science School, Paul Cezanne University)
• Catherine Prieto (Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille)
• Didier Poracchia (Université de Droit, d’Economie et des Sciences d’Aix-Marseille)
• Pierre Raoul-Duval (Gide Loyrette Nouel)
• Andrei Shleifer (Harvard)
• Georges Terrier (JeantetAssociés)

Coordination: Bertrand Jacquillat with the participation of Anne Perrot, Benoit Coeuré, Dominique Roux and Christian Stoffaës (Cercle des Economistes)

2:00 pm: Opening of the Aix-en-Provence Economic Forum

Welcome by Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (President of Le Cercle des économistes)

Opening by Roberto Lavagna(former Minister of Economy – Argentina)

Host: François Roche (Foreign Policy)

2:30 pm Session 1: The Diversity of Capitalisms

Speakers:

• Michel Aglietta (Université Paris-X Nanterre)
• Jeffry  A. Frieden (Harvard)
• Peter A. Hall (Harvard)
• Yixiang LIN (TX Investment Consulting Co)
• Alexander Medvedev (Gazprom)
• Edmund Phelps (Nobel Prize for economics)

Coordination:Patrick Artus, Christian de Boissieu (Cercle des économistes)

Host: François Roche (Foreign Policy)

3:45 pm Session 2: Financial globalization, a force of convergence?

Speakers:  

• Frank Dangeard (Club des Trente)
• Christian Noyer (Banque de France)
• Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago)
• Myron S. Scholes (Nobel Prize for Economics)
• Michel Tilmant (ING)
• Ted Tokuchi (Citic)
• Rémy Weber (CIC – Lyonnaise de Banque)

Coordination:Anton Brender, Jean-Paul Pollin with the contribution of André Cartapanis (Cercle des économistes)

Host: Philippe Mabille (La Tribune)

5:00 – 6:15 pm Session 3: Globalization and Diversity of Social Structures

Speakers:

• François Bourguignon (World Bank)
• Pierre Gadonneix (EDF)
• Roberto Lavagna (former Minister of Economy – Argentina)
• Eric Lombard (BNP Paribas Assurance)
• Philippe Mellier (Alstom Transports)
• Axel Miller (Dexia)
• Alain-Gérard Slama (IEP Paris)
• Yoshinori Yokoyama (Social System Design Institute)

Coordination: Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Jacquet with the contribution of Jean-Michel Charpin (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Gérard Bonos (Radio Classique)

  First day’s conclusions:

• Guy Canivet (Conseil Constitutionnel)
• Andrei Shleifer (Harvard)

Coordination: Bertrand Jacquillat (Cercle des économistes)

Saturday, 7^th(Institute of Political Science, 25 rue Gaston de Saporta)

9:00 am Session 4: Corporations at the Heart of Capitalism and Economic Growth

Speakers:

• Philippe Aghion (Harvard)
• Léo Apotheker (SAP)
• René Carron (Crédit Agricole)
• Oleg Deripaska (Rusal)
• Christophe de Margerie (Total)
• Gérard Mestrallet (Suez)
• Augustin de Romanet (Caisse des dépôts)
• Jean-François Théodore (Euronext)

Coordination:Jean-Paul Betbèze, Christian Saint-Etienne with the contribution of Daniel Vitry (Cercle des économistes)

Host:François-Xavier Pietri (La Tribune)

10:30 am Session 5: What Kind of Capitalism for what Kind of Economic Development?

Speakers (two stage sessions)

• Afif Chelbi (Minister of Industry, Tunisie)
• Soumaïla Cissé (UEMOA)
• Eric Labaye (McKinsey)
• Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon (Yale)
• Lionel Zinsou (Rothschild et Cie Banque)

• Jacques Attali (PlaNet Finance)
• Thierry de Longuemar (African Development Bank)
• Bruno Lafont (Lafarge)
• Anne Lauvergeon (Areva)
• Pedro Lichtinger (Pfizer)
• Stéphane Salord (Mairie d’Aix-en-Provence)

Coordination:Agnès Benassy-Quéré, Jean-Marie Chevalier (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Frédéric Lemaître (Le Monde)

2:30 pm Session 6: The Spirit of Capitalism, Cultures and Religions.

Speakers:

• Mohammed Arkoun (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)
• Gilles Benoist (CNP Assurances)
• Monseigneur Jean-Charles Descubes (Archbishop of Rouen)
• Bruno Etienne (IEP Aix-en-Provence)
• Francis Fukuyama (Johns Hopkins)
• Philippe Lemoine (LaSer)
• Peter Sloterdijk (Hochschule für Gestaltung de Karlsruhe)
• Immanuel Wallerstein(Yale)

Coordination:Pierre Dockès, Marc Guillaume with the contribution of Elie Cohen (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Dominique Rousset (France Culture)

3:45 – 5-15 pm Session 7: Capitalism, Nationalism and Economic Warfare

Speakers:

• Gilles Duranton (Toronto University)
• Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen)
• Paul Joskow (MIT)
• Dalia Marin (University of Munich)
• Mario Monti (Università Bocconi)

Coordination:Lionel Fontagné, Anne Perrot (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Christine Ockrent (France 3)

Sunday 8^th(Aix – Marseille Law and Political Science School, Paul Cezanne University, 3 avenue Robert Schuman)

9 am Discussion: Is the principle of the freebe the ultimate stage of capitalism?

Speakers:

• Didier Lombard (France Telecom)
• Erik Orsenna (Académie française)

Coordination: Christian Stoffaës (Cercle des économistes)

9:30 am Session 8: France and Capitalism

Speakers:

• Christine Lagarde (Minister for the Economy, Finance and Employment)
• Michel Cicurel (Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild Banque)
• Jacques-Henri David (Deutsche Bank)
• Alain Dinin (Nexity)
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi (IEP Paris)
• Pascal Lamy (OMC)
• Serge Villepelet (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
• Serge Weinberg (Weinberg Capital Partners)

Coordination: Daniel Cohen, with the contribution of Michel Didier (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Jean-Marc Sylvestre (TF1)

10:45 am Session 9: Europe: one Capitalism, for diversity of nations

Speakers:

• Michel Barnier (Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries)
• Sergio Cofferati (Mayor of Bologna))
• Joschka Fischer (Princeton University)
• Philippe Herzog (Confrontations Europe)
• Sir Callum McCarthy (Financial Services Authority)
• Eric Le Boulch (CM-CIC Securities)
• Wanda Rapaczynski (Agora Group, Gazeta Wyborcza)

Coordination:Catherine Lubochinsky, Jean Pisani-Ferry with the contribution of Jean-Dominique Lafay (Cercle des économistes)

Host:Eric Le Boucher (Le Monde)

11:30 – 1:15 pm Session 10: How to Manage the Diversity of Models?

Speakers:

• Jean-Marie Guéhenno (Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations of UN)
• Angel Gurría (OCDE)
• Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal (Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas)
• David Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group)
• Guy Ryder (International Trade Union Confederation)
• Jean-Claude Trichet (Banque Centrale Européenne)
• Hubert Védrine (former French Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Coordination:Olivier Pastré (Cercle des économistes)

Host:François Lenglet (Enjeux Les Echos)

Conclusion:Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (Président du Cercle des économistes)