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What are the lessons from Sweden for Greece? What are the lessons from Greece to Sweden? And what can Greece do to also re-emerge victoriously? These are the main subjects of our conference and of the publication that we are launching.
Our publication investigates economic reforms in the Greek and Swedish product and labour markets since the early 1990’s and explores which reforms have been implemented in these two countries, and which reforms remain to be implemented in order to restore competitiveness in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world.

The central purpose of this book is to investigate and compare labor and product market reforms in Greece and Sweden, since the early 1990s in order to see what these two countries from Southern and Northern Europe – both relatively small though very different in terms of culture and institutional settings – can learn from each other. The results suggest that Sweden has undertaken a number of important product market reforms to increase its economic competitiveness.

Maria Choupres

Maria Choupres is an attorney-negotiator and political affairs advisor with international experience resolving conflicts, building relationships and fostering consensus among diverse groups. Ms. Choupres has served as Counsel in New York for over 10 years, in both the private and public sectors, representing unions in arbitration proceedings as an associate in a law practice and acting as a lead negotiator and advocate on behalf of the City of New York. Her passion for bridging conflicts and growing interest in foreign policy led her to take on projects outside of the US. Her work has taken her from New York City to The Hague, from Athens to Tunis. She has completed political research in war zones, such as Tunisia, written articles and created content for a variety of publications, conducted private commercial mediations and negotiations, and advised various political and government officials in the US and EU. Currently, Ms. Choupres serves as the Director of Public Affairs & Policy at the Forum for Greece, an independent think tank in Athens.

Harald Edquist

Harald Edquist is research director at Forum for Reforms, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (FORES). He has a PhD in Economic History from the Stockholm School of Economics. Prior to joining FORES he worked as researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and as research director at the Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies. The focus of his research has been comparative productivity development, intangible investments, economic reforms and the impact of new technology on productivity growth.