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What growth path should be taken after the crisis? This seminar provided an opportunity to identify the drivers of future growth and the policy trade-offs that will strengthen the economic growth potential in France and in Europe.

Summary of conference proceedings:

Opening: Vincent Chriqui, Director, Centre d'analyse stratégique

Intervention: Michel Barnier, former Minister, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services

• First Round Table: Industrial policy and innovation

Introduction: Christian de Boissieu, President, Board of Economic Analysis

I. The diversity of industrial policy strategies in Europe
Aiginger Karl, Director, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

II. Strategies for green supply chain developments in France and Europe 
Dominique Bureau, Managing Director, Economic Council for Sustainable Development

III. How should France reindustrialize with regard to Germany and emerging countries? 
Patrick Artus, Economist, Director of Research and Studies, Natixis

IV. The selection procedures for future investments by states
Jean-Luc Tavernier, Deputy Commissioner General, General Commission for Investment

• Second Panel: Competitive prices and non-prices in French and European companies

Introduction: Agnes Benassy-Quere, Director, CEPII

I. The position of France and other European countries in terms of price competitiveness and non-price at the end of the crisis
Mathilde Lemoine, Director, Economic Studies and Strategy of markets, HSBC France

II. Cost competitiveness of French companies after the crisis
Francois Bouvard, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

III. Means to restore competitiveness during a crisis  
Michel Didier, Director, Coe-Rexecode

IV. The criteria of competitiveness of European ETI
Antoine Raymond, Entrepreneur

V. The role of innovation for the competitiveness of French companies
Luc Rousseau, Director General, Competitiveness, Industry and Services, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment

Speech: François Baroin, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry

• Third Round Table: What are the impacts of the economic crisis on the instruments of economic policy?

Introduction: Daniel Cohen, Economist, Director of CEPREMAP

I. Resolution of global imbalances in the mid-term 
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

II. The U.S. strategy for ending the crisis
Laurence Boone, Chief Economist Europe, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch

III. International coordination to support growth: European initiatives and issues from the Cannes summit
Coeuré Benedict, Deputy Director General, Directorate General of Treasury, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment

IV. The accompanying monetary policy of fiscal consolidation in Europe
Frank Smets, Chief Economist, European Central Bank

V. What is the strategy to overcome the sovereign debt crisis?                                                                                                                                                      Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of BRUEGEL

VI. Public debt strategy in France in the years to come                                                                                                                                                 Gilles Carrez, Researcher, General Budget at the National Assembly

Speech: François Fillon, Prime Minister