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27Nov

The pensioners versus the Euro: how will the Euro withstand the increasing pressure on the European welfare states?

Hosted by the LSE School of Public Policy
In-person and online public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building)
Thursday 27 November 2025 6.30pm - 8pm

Join us for a public event with Luis Garicano, who will discuss the future of the Euro amid growing pressure from rising debts and deficits in the Euro Area.

This talk, based on his new book Crisis Cycle (Princeton University Press), co-authored with John Cochrane and Klaus Masuch, will be chaired by Andrés Velasco, Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy.

Meet our speakers and chair

Luis Garicano is a full professor of public policy at LSE and a CEPR Fellow. He returned to academia in 2022 after serving as a member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he was vice-president of the Renew Europe group, overseeing economic affairs and coordinating its work on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Previously, he spent a decade at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was Full Professor of Economics and Strategy, and another decade at LSE as a full professor in the Departments of Management and Economics. He later served as Professor of Economics and Strategy at IE Business School in Madrid. He has also held visiting professorships at MIT, Columbia Business School, and London Business School.

Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Multilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission.

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