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Public Governance and Structural Reforms
Seminar organized on behalf of the Austrian Authorities (Austrian Ministry of Finance and Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austrias central bank) at the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI) Vienna, 05 09, May 2014 Implementation: The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
Scientific coordinator: Prof. Vladimir Gligorov, wiiw ([email protected]) Coordinator: Seminar venue: For application: Magdalena Hllhuber, wiiw ([email protected]) Joint Vienna Institute (JVI) Please send your CV and a letter of interest to the coordinator, via e-mail or fax to + 0043 1 533 66 10 50 Application deadline: March 24, 2014
Outline The seminar provides an overview of policy challenges in key areas of structural reforms. In particular, approaches to legal reform, fiscal policy, competition policy, privatization and regulation policy, provision of infrastructure services and technology policy, and reforms of education and science and of the welfare system (health, pensions) will be discussed. The presentations will draw on the ongoing political and academic discussions in EU member states and candidate countries, as well as on Austrias reform process and experience in the wake of EU membership and its relevance for EU accession candidates. The seminar will look more closely at the regulatory role of the state rather than at macroeconomic policy issues. The guiding idea is to analyse the reform goals and instruments from the point of view of the complex inter-relationship between states and markets, where markets provide the relevant environment for state actions and states are an important environment for market behaviour. The complexity of this inter-relationship is especially high in Europe due to the deepening and widening of the European Union integration.
Aim of the seminar The aim is to broaden the awareness of policy makers of the strengths and weaknesses of particular reform strategies as well as of the conditions for their successful implementation; also, to look at the most important and demanding structural reforms which are topical in the EU and are being faced by prospective EU members too. It also approaches the more advanced reform problems on the agenda of transition economies.
Structure The seminar is structured in half-day blocks of about three hours each. There will be a lecture before the break and discussion thereafter. Experts hold the lectures on the respective topics. Target group The seminar addresses decision makers in the ministry of economy, the ministry of finance as well as representatives of the parliament. . The seminar is open for applicants from Southeast European countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro as well as from CIS countries, namely, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Advanced language abilities in spoken and written English are expected. Costs The costs of participation (accommodation and daily allowance) are borne by the Austrian Authorities. The travel costs to and from Vienna are borne up to a certain limit by the Joint Vienna Institute. Readings A compendium of appropriate chapters from books and articles is provided by the organizer beforehand. Additional readings will be suggested by the speakers.
Programme
1. New approach to regulation: public and private relationship (decentralization, competition and partnership) The lecture deals with the new ideas in regulation policy where states and markets interact in a number of different ways. 2. Legal reforms: main issues in law and economics The lecture deals with the main economic consequences of different legal traditions as analysed in the law and economics literature. 3. Fiscal reform: taxes, expenditures, decentralization and competition The lecture deals with the issues of the determination of reforms in the tax systems, with the determination of the desired level of public expenditures and with the controversy over the desirability and efficiency of tax competition. 4. Competition policy during and after privatization The lecture looks at the problems of the design and implementation of the appropriate competition policy during and especially after privatization.
5. Banking and financial market reforms The lecture deals with the controversial issues of the importance of the development of the financial services sector for faster economic growth. 6. Privatizing infrastructure Experiences with the privatization of various aspects of infrastructure are reviewed and new ideas for private and public partnership are discussed. 7. Labour market reforms: increasing flexibility This key area of reform is approached from the point of view of the desirability and the efficiency of increased flexibility of labour market relations. 8. Pension and health care reforms The issues in privatizing and regulating pension and health care systems are discussed. 9. Research and technology The regulation of this sector in advanced and transition economies is discussed.

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