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CERGE-EI conferences and workshops serve many purposes. Not only are they a way for our researchers to disseminate the results of their research, but also they function as fora for analyzing current economic issues as intensively as possible. The input of ideas from invited guests is invaluable in answering pressing questions, and their influence on CERGE-EI faculty, researchers, and students is unquestionably positive. CERGE-EI conferences and workshops are not always just for seasoned economists: in an effort to blend the research and educational sides of CERGE-EI, some workshops are geared toward Ph.D. students and young scholars so as to allow their voices to be heard and their confidence to be built. Finally, conferences and workshops help to enlighten the general public as a whole on matters related to the economic transition and integration which they themselves are undertaking.
Conferences and workshops organized by CERGE-EI in 2009:
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Conferences and workshops held at CERGE-EI in 2004:
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GDN/CERGE-EI REGIONAL RESEARCH COMPETITION CONFERENCE CERGE-EI
CERGE-EI, August 9-10, 2009
Organizers: GDN, CERGE-EI
For the ninth year, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback.
GDN/CERGE-EI REGIONAL RESEARCH COMPETITION CONFERENCE CERGE-EI
CERGE-EI, August 10-11, 2008
Organizers: GDN, CERGE-EI
For the eighth year, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback.
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European Conference of the Financial Management Association (FMA)
Hilton Hotel, June 4 - 6, 2008
Organizers: FMA, CSOB, the Prague Stock Exchange, Czech National Bank, CERGE-EI, Czech Economic Society
CERGE-EI co-hosted the 2008 European Meeting of the Financial Management Association (FMA) that attracted prominent researchers in financial theory and its applications as well as finance practitioners. Altogether, 450 people registered for the conference.
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2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED)
Profesní dùm, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, June 28 - 30, 2007
Organizers: CERGE-EI, Czech National Bank, Czech Economic Society
CERGE-EI co-hosted the world most prominent macroeconomic conference that was held under the auspices of Mr. Pavel Bem, Mayor of Prague. The conference accommodated almost 400 economists from all over the world including several Nobel laureates. There were more than 360 papers in 90 sessions covering all areas of economics.
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GDN/CERGE-EI REGIONAL RESEARCH COMPETITION CONFERENCE
CERGE-EI, August 19-20, 2007
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
For the seventh year, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback.
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GDN/CERGE-EI Regional Research Competition Conference
CERGE-EI, August 9-11, 2006
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Using funds provided by GDN, CERGE-EI runs a regional research competition for researchers from the region to conduct research on development issues. On August 2006, CERGE-EI hosted a conference for CEE researchers who were awarded GDN Regional Research Competition grants in autumn/winter 2005.
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Workshop on Financial Market Development in the Central and Eastern European Countries
CERGE-EI, May 26 - 27, 2006
Organizers: EIASM, CERGE-EI
EIASM (The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) and CERGE-EI organized a two-day workshop in the end of May 2006. The purpose of this workshop was to survey evidence on financial market developments since the initial privatizations in the Central and Eastern European Countries. Issues of interest were the impact of institutional and broader structural changes, changes in ownership structure, stock market trading including changes in liquidity, and valuation. Implications of the main findings, in contributed papers, for financial theory in general were discussed. For workshop’s web sites click here.
Chairpersons:
Tom Berglund, Swedish School of Economics and B.A., Helsinki
Jan Hanousek, CERGE-EI
Dusan Mramor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Guest Speaker:
Steven Fries, Deputy Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
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Intellectual Property and Innovation in the Digital World
CERGE-EI, January 17, 2006
Organizers: The Progress & Freedom Foundation, CERGE-EI, Liberalni institut
On January 17, 2006, CERGE-EI co-hosted an all-day conference focused on both U.S. and E.U. approaches to intellectual property protection, with particular focus on patents, standard settings, interoperability and “open” platforms in the software and IT sectors. For the conference web sites click here.
Keynote speakers:
Dana Berova, Minister of Informatics for the Czech Republic
David Gross, U.S. Ambassador, Department of State
Featured speakers:
Karel Cada, President, Industrial Property Office
Martin Campbell-Kelley, University of Warwick
James DeLong, Senior Fellow with the Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director, PFF’s Center for the Study of Digital Property
Raymond Gifford, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Tom Lenard, Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Jiri Matolin, Czech attorney
Stephen McGibbon, Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft
Meir Perez Pugatch, University of Haifa, IP Policy and Commercialisation of Knowledge Assets
Guenther Schmalz, Director of Intellectual Property, SAP Europe
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GDN Global Conference "Research for Results in Education"
CERGE-EI, March 31 - April 2, 2005
CERGE-EI hosted a global conference on educational research in developing and transition countries sponsored by the Education Policy Research Network of the Global Development Network (GDN) from 31 March - 2 April 2005. To download the conference program, please click here.
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Prague-Budapest Spring Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
CERGE-EI, June 19-22, 2005
Organizers: CERGE-EI, CEU, Czech National Bank, Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Participants:
A. ABRAHAM
G. HANSEN
J. HEATHCOTE
Z. HERCOWITZ
H. HOPENHAYN
G. KAMBOUROV
M. KAPICKA
R. LAGOS
K. MATSUYAMA
A. MONGE
J. P. NICOLINI
E. C. PRESCOTT
M. A. RENZO
K. J. RUHL
L. VELDKAMP
Program:
G. Hansen: “Consumption over the Life Cycle: The Role of Annuities”
G. Kambourov: “Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings”
J. Heathcote: “Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion”
A. Abraham: “Endogenous Trading Constraints with Incomplete Asset Markets”
L. Veldkamp: “Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle”
K. J. Ruhl: “Solving the Elasticity Puzzle in International Economics”
A. Monge: “International Firms and the Income of Developing Countries”
R. Lagos: “A Model of Job and Worker Flows”
K. Matsuyama: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: An Inquiry into the Causes and Nature of Credit Cycles”
Z. Hercowitz: “The Role of Collateralized Household Debt in macroeconomic Stabilization”
Edward C. Prescott: public lecture and questions
M. A. Renzo: “On the dynamic inefficiency of governments”
H. Hopenhayn: “Patent Rights and Innovation Disclosure”
J. P. Nicolini: “Optimal Devaluations”
M. Kapicka: “Optimal Taxation with Persistent Shocks: A First Order Approach”
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GDN / CERGE-EI Regional Research Competition Conference
CERGE-EI, 10-12 August 2005
On 10-12 August 2005, CERGE-EI hosted a conference for CEE researchers who were awarded GDN Regional Research Competition grants in autumn/winter 2004. These projects are running for a maximim of 18 months from 01 January 2005, and sessions featured in-progress presentations. A listing of the awarded projects can be found here.
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Tax Competition in the EU25
CERGE-EI, December 16-17, 2004
Organizers: CEPII, CERGE-EI
Participants:
Ari KALHO, The Reseach Insitute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki, Finland
Patrick ARTUS, IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank, Paris, France
Ian BABETSKII, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Agnes BENASSY-QUERE, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, France
Luigi BERNARDI, University of Pavia - nakonec neprijel
Leon BETTENDORF, Centraal Planbureaue, The Hague, The Netherlands
Steve BOND, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, United Kingdom
Philippe BRUNEL, French Embassy, Warszawa, Poland
Sam BUCOVETSKY, York University, Toronto, Canada
Thiess BUTTNER, CESifo (the international platform of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Munich, Germany
Marius BRUHLHART, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael COLLINS, HM Treasury, London, United Kingdom
Michaela ERBENOVA, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Lionel FONTAGNE, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, France
Danielle FRANCO, Banca d’Italia, Roma, Italy
Clemens FUEST, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Stefan GEHROLD, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Marcel GERARD, Catholic University of Mons (FUCaM), Mons, Belgium
Harry GRUBERT, US Treasury, Washington, USA
Andreas HAUFLER, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Gregor HOCHREITER, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Albert VAN DER HORST, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hague, The Netherlands
Alexander KLEMM, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, United Kingdom
Katri KOSONEN, DG TAXUD E4, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Katerina KOUBOVA, MF Dnes, Prague, Czech Republic
Amina LAHRECHE-REVIL, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, France
Lubomir LIZAL, CERGE-EI
Carola MAGGIULLI, DG TAXUD, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Jan MACHACEK, Hospodarske noviny, Prague, Czech Republic
Ema MENASCE, IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank, Paris, France
Ruud DE MOOIJ, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hague, The Netherlands
Rafal MORAWCZYNSKI, University of Krakow - neprijel
Gaetan NICODEME, European Commission - DG Economics, Brussels, Belgium
Witold ORLOWSKI, NOBE - Independent Centre for Economic Studies, Warsaw, Poland
Ian PERRY, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Jean PISANY-FERRY, Centre Europeen D’Economie Internationale, Washington, USA
Olev RAJU, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia
Deborah SWENSON, University of California, Davis, USA
Emanuela TASSA, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Jacques THISSE, CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Henk VORDING, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Jouko YLA-LIEDENPOHJA, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Lenka ZLAMALOVA, Hospodarske noviny, Prague, Czech Republic
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GEW-Tagung 2004
CERGE-EI, October 14-16, 2004
Organizers: GEW, CERGE-EI
Participants:
Marlies AHLERT, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Vitezslav BABICKÝ, CERGE-EI
Will BENNIS, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Friedel BOLLE, Europa Universitat Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany
Jeannette E. BROSIG, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Adele DIEDERICH, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dennis A. V. DITTRICH, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Dirk ENGELMANN, CERGE-EI
Sven FISCHER, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Ben GREINER, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
Werner GUETH, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Christine HARBING, Towers Perrin, Frankfurt, Germany
Kjell HAUSKEN, University of Stavanger (SIU), Bergen, Norway
Heike HENNIG-SCHMIDT, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Hannah HOERISCH, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Oliver KIRCHKAMP, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Ronny KLEIN, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Hartmut KLIEMT, University of Duisburg, Germany
Simone KOHNZ, Munich Graduate School of Economics at LMU, Munich, Germany
Sebastian KUBE, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Vittoria LEVATTI, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Wolfgang LUHAN, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Carsten MARX, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Andreas NICKLISCH, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Andreas ORTMANN, CERGE-EI
Katinka PANTZ, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Robin POPE, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Gabriele K. RUCHALA, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Ondrej RYDVAL, CERGE-EI
Reinhard SELTEN, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Bodo STURM, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Nadja TRHAL, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
Gari WALKOWITZ, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
A. WEBER, University of Applied Science, Wuerzburg, Germany
Torsten WEILAND, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany
Nathaniel WILCOX, University of Houston, Houston, USA
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Democracy, Sustainability and Policy Reform
CERGE-EI, November 15, 2004
Organizers: CEFRES, CERGE-EI, Nadace CERGE-EI
Speakers:
Andrew AUSTIN, CERGE-EI
Hubert KEMPF, EUREqua, University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
David STROMBERG, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Daniel MÜNICH, CERGE-EI
André ZYLBERBERG, EUREqua, University Paris I - Panthéon, Sorbonne, Paris, France
Christopher PISSARIDES, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Rachel NGAI, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Ondrej SCHNEIDER, Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Jean-Oliver HAIRAULT, EUREqua, University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
Richard DISNEY, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Program:
Panel I: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Chair : Andrew Austin (CERGE-EI)
Hubert Kempf, EUREqua, University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment in a Growing Economy?
David Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
The Effect of Mass-media on Public Policy-making
Panel II : UNEMPLOYMENT
Chair : Daniel Munich (CERGE-EI)
André Zylberberg, EUREQua - University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Optimal Fiscal Policy and the Taxation of Redundancies
Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics)
Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)
Structural Change with Mobility Barriers
Panel III : PENSION REFORM
Chair : Ondrej Schneider (Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University)
Jean-Olivier Hairault, EUREqua, University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Older Workers Inactivity and Social Security Provisions:Theoretical Links and Empirical Evidence
Richard Disney (University of Nottingham)
Actuarial - Based Public Pension System
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The Political Economy of Transition Economies
CERGE-EI, September 10-11, 2004
Organizers: MacArthur Research Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance, CERGE-EI
Participants:
Sally ALCALA, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Pranab BARDHAN, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Erik BERGLOF, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm, Sweden
Samuel BOWLES, University of Sienna, Sienna, Italy
Serguey BRAGUINSKY, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Virginie COULLOUDON, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),
Marshall I. GOLDMAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Arnold HARBERGER,University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Karla HOFF, The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA
Shale HOROWITZ, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Barry ICKES, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI
Jana KUNICOVA, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Paolo MAURO, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C., USA
Mookherjee DILIP, Boston University, Boston, USA
Roger B. MYERSON, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Adam PRZEWORSKI, New York University, New York, USA
Gerard ROLAND, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Christof RUEHL, The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA
Jan ŠVEJNAR, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, USA
Katherine TERRELL, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, USA
Ekaterina ZHURAVSKAYA, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Moscow, Russia
Program:
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (coathors—Irina Slinko, Evgeny Yakovlev):
“Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia"
Karla Hoff, Shale Horowitz (coauthor—Branko Milanovic):
“Political Turnover as a Restraint on Investing in Influence: Evidence from the Transition Economies”
Arye L. Hillman: “Corruption, Ethics, and the Persistence of Poverty”
Roundtable on Corruption
Virginie Coulloudon, Paolo Mauro and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
An Overview of the MacArthur Inequality Network Research (led by Sam Bowles)
Serguey Braguinsky and Roger B. Myerson
“Oligarchic Property Rights and Investment”
Erik Berglof: Discussion of oligarchic property rights
Kathy Terrell and Stepan Jurajda
“What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation during Episodes of Massive Adjustment?”
Barry Ickes (coauthor Clifford Gaddy)
“Federalism and Transition in Russia”
Roundtable on Institutions and History
Marshall Goldman, Arnold Harberger, Adam Przeworski, and Gerard Roland
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Global Development Network - Regional Research Competition IV Workshop
CERGE-EI, August 14-17, 2004
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: Global Development Network (GDN)
For the fourth year, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. During calendar year 2004, 34 projects were awarded funding. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback. Two external discussants are assigned each paper, allowing for robust critiques to be passed along to teams while the research is ongoing so that suggested changes might be included in the final research project.
Participants:
Zoran ARALICA, Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
Andrew AUSTIN, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Ian BABETSKII, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Eugen BAICAN, CCRIT - Research Center on Interethnic Relations, Bucharest, Romania
Eszter BERENYI, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Dario CZIRAKY, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
Laert DOGJANI, Albanian Institute for International Studies, Tirana, Albania
Libor DUSEK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Gabor EROSS, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Nikola FABRIS, Economics Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Imre FERTO, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Andrejs GESKE, University of Latvia, Riga
Tania GOSSELIN, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Martin GREGOR, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Aleksandra GREGORIC, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andris GRINFELDS, University of Latvia, Riga
Jan HANOUSEK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Mihails HAZANS, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia
Mikolaj HERBST, Warsaw University, Poland
Zoltan HERMANN, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Daniel HORN, National Institute for Public Education, Budapest, Hungary
Avdullah HOTI, RIINVEST Institute for Development Research, Prishtina, Kosova
Sorin IONITA, Romanian Academic Society, Bucharest, Romania
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Robert KELM, University of Lodz, Poland
Miklos KOREN, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Przemyslaw KULAWCZUK, Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Warsaw, Poland
Lubomir LIZAL, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Jelena MIHALJEVIC DJIGUNOVIC, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Adam NIEDZIELSKI, Graduate School of Commerce and International Finance, Warsaw, Poland
Andreas ORTMANN, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Anete PAJUSTE, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia
Filip PALDA, National School of Public Administration, Quebec, Canada
Francesco PASTORE, University of Naples, Italy
Dragana PETRAKOVIC, Economics Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Domagoj RACIC, Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
Lukasz W. RAWDANOWICZ, CASE Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Sergey SLOBODYAN, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Vedran SOSIC, Croatian National Bank, Croatia
Cristian Nicolae STANICA, Institute for Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania
Laszlo SZAKADAT, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Hungary
Ija TRAPEZNIKOVA, Northwestern University, USA
Alf VANAGS, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia
Balazs VARADI, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Boris VUJCIC, Croatian National Bank, Croatia
Todor YALAMOV, Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Discussants:
Edward CHRISTIE, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
Stephen CRAIG, University of Houston, USA
Natalia DINELLO, Global Development Network (GDN), Washington, DC, USA
Randall FILER, Hunter College-CUNY & CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Ira GANG, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Devra GOLBE, Hunter College-CUNY, USA
Mario HOLZNER, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
Janet KOHLHASE, University of Houston, USA
Daniel MUNICH, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Steven RIVKIN, Amherst College, USA
Jeffrey SMITH, University of Maryland, USA
Petr ZEMCIK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
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The CNB/CERGE-EI Macro Workshop
CERGE-EI&CNB, June 4-5, 2004
Organizers: CERGE-EI
Participants:
Radim BOHÁÈEK, CERGE-EI
Michele BOLDRIN, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Juan Carlos CONESA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Max GILLMAN, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Tim KEHOE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI
Hugo RODRIGUEZ, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Chris TELMER, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA
David VÁVRA, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Fabrizio ZILIBOTTI, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Program:
Michele Boldrin: “Fertility and Social Security”
Hugo Rodriguez-Mendizabal: “Interest Rate Determination in the Interbank Market”
David Vavra: ”SDGE Models to Support Monetary Policy”
Fabrizio Zilibotti: “On the Optimal Timing of Capital Taxes”
Juan-Carlos Conesa: “Optimal Design of Social Security Reforms”
Radim Bohacek and Michal Kejak: “On the Optimal Tax Schedule”
Tim Kehoe: “On Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Models”
Chris Telmer: “Price Dispersion: The Role of Borders, Distance and Location”
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Conference "State-Owned Enterprise Reform in China"
CERGE-EI, 22 September 2003
On 22 September 2003, CERGE-EI hosted a conference on the topic "State-Owned Enterprise Reform in China" organized with The World Bank. Presentations were made by experts from The World Bank, CERGE-EI, the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Global Development Network - Regional Research Competition III Workshop
CERGE-EI, August 8-11, 2003
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: Global Development Network (GDN)
For the third year running, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. During calendar year 2003, 33 projects were awarded funding. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback. Two external discussants are assigned each paper, allowing for robust critiques to be passed along to teams while the research is ongoing so that suggested changes might be included in the final research project.
Participants:
Lucian-Liviu ALBU, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania
Paul Dragos ALIGICA, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Peter BENCZUR, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Venelin BOSHNAKOV, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Erzsebet BUKODI, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Budapest, Hungary
Mark CHANDLER, EuroFaculty, Vilnius Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Liviu CHELCEA, The Humanist Foundation for Regional Development and Excellence, Bucharest, Romania
Martin CINCIBUCH, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Polona DOMADENIK, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vjascheslav DOMBROVSKY, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, Riga, Latvia
Petr DUCZYNSKI, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Jan FIDRMUC, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Silviya GERDZHIKOVA, University of Plovdiv "Paisiy Hilendarski", Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Valentin GOEV, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mihails HAZANS, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, Riga, Latvia
Daniel HORN, National Institute for Public Education, Budapest, Hungary
Delia IONASCU, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Ella KALLAI, Alpha Bank, Bucharest
Lubos KOMAREK, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Puiu LATEA, Transparency International, Bucharest, Romania
Lindita LATI, The Public-Private Finance Institute (PPFI), Tirana, Albania
Mircea MANIU, Asociatia IDEE & Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Nikolay MARKOV, Center for Economic and Strategic Research, Sofia, Bulgaria
Oana MATEESCU, The Humanist Foundation for Regional Development and Excellence, Bucharest, Romania
Petr MATEJU, Institute for Social and Economic Analysis, Prague, Czech Republic
Maja MICEVSKA, Association for Socio-Economic Development, Skopje, Macedonia
Vesselin MINTCHEV, Center for Comparative Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria
Daniel MUNICH, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Jose NOGUERA, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Francesco PASTORE, University of Naples II, Naples, Italy
Rafal PIWOWARSKI, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
Jiri PODPIERA, Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Daniel POP, Civitas Foundation for Civil Society, Romania
Artur RADZIWILL, Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, Poland
Peter ROBERT, TARKI, Budapest, Hungary
Matild SAGI, TARKI, Budapest, Hungary
Ondrej SCHNEIDER, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Oleksandr STUPNYTSKYY, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Tihomira TRIFONOVA, Institute for Politics and Public Communications, Sofia, Bulgaria
Juraj VALACHY, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Alf VANAGS, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, Riga, Latvia
Julia VARGA, Budapest Univ. of Economic Sciences & Public Administration, Hungary
Galyna VERESHCHAGINA, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Kresimir ZIGIC, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Discussants:
Nick ADNETT, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Radim BOHACEK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Annette N. BROWN, BearingPoint, McLean, Virginia, USA
Edward CHRISTIE, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
Natalia DINELLO, Global Development Network (GDN), Washington, DC, USA
Libor DUSEK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Dirk ENGELMANN, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Randall FILER, Hunter College-CUNY & CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Ira GANG, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Jan HANOUSEK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Byeongju JEONG, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Lubomir LIZAL, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Anders PAALZOW, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Latvia
Filip PALDA, E.N.A.P., University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Cynthia ROBERTS, Hunter College - CUNY & Columbia University, New York, USA
Sergey SLOBODYAN, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Waltraut URBAN, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Paul WACHTEL, Stern School of Business - New York University, USA
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Workshop "New Opportunities for Economic Research and Policy Analysis in Transition Economies”
CERGE-EI, May 27, 2003
Organizers: WDI, CERGE-EI, USU
Presentations were made by following participants:
Inna Maltseva and Darja Nesterova, USU:
Gender Differences in the Wage Effect of Job Mobility in Russia
Viatcheslav Vinogradov, CERGE-EI:
Economic consequences of HIV in Russia Job-Worker Flows and Education-Specific Human Capital Mismatch in Russia and Central European Countries
Elena Kazakova, CERGE-EI: Gender - Wage Differentials Across Regions of Russia
Pavel Yessin, CERGE-EI: FDI, Import and the Market Structure
Jose Noguera, CERGE-EI: Is Barter in Russia a Hobson’s Choice?
Irina Tretiakova, CERGE-EI: Allocation of Time of Russian Married Women
Daniel Münich, CERGE-EI: Wage mobility and inequality in the Czech Republic and Russia
Natalia Davidson, CERGE-EI: Foreign enterprises and domestic business in Russia
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Think Tank Representatives Workshop
CERGE-EI, November 24-26, 2002
Organizer: Randall K. Filer, The Institute for Research on the Informal Sector (IRIS) of the University of Maryland
Source of finance: The Institute for Research on the Informal Sector (IRIS) of the University of Maryland
The main task of this meeting was to discuss and introduce the Regional Partnership project funded by USAID. IRIS and Bearing Point (Formerly KPMG Consulting) are administering this multi-year project. The participants discussed all possibilities of exploring the needs and potential for think tanks cooperation. The meeting focused on identifying thematic areas where in the opinion of Czech and Slovak think tanks representatives would be most useful, present the Regional Partnership project.
Participants:
Annette BROWN, IRIS, University of Maryland, USA
Bohumil BUZIK, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Charles CADWELL, IRIS, University of Maryland, USA
Marek DABROWSKI, CASE, Warsaw, Poland
Randall K. FILER, CERGE-EI and The City University of New York, USA
Michael JETTON, CERGE-EI
Eugen JURZYCA, INEKO - Institute for the Economic and Social Reforms, Bratislava, Slovakia
Robert KLOBUCKY, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Olga LAVRENTIEVA, Economic Education Research Consortium, Moscow, Russia
Jan LENGHARDTOVA, Economic University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Eric LIVNY, Economic Education Research Consortium, Russia
Leonid POLISHUK, IRIS, University of Maryland, USA
Katarina STRAPCOVA, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Kristin TAYLOR, IRIS, University of Maryland, USA
Alexey VERBETSKY, United States Agency for International Development, Office of Economic Policy Reform, Moscow, Russia
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Global Development Network - Regional Research Competition II Workshop
CERGE-EI, August 4-5, 2002
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: Global Development Network
For the second year running, CERGE-EI has administered grant funds from GDN to support policy-relevant research throughout the Central and Eastern European region via the GDN Regional Research Competition scheme. During calendar year 2002, 27 projects were awarded funding. Built into the one-year research cycle is a meeting at a mid-term point which allows all projects to be presented as works-in-progress by a project representative for commentary and feedback. Two external discussants are assigned each paper, allowing for robust critiques to be passed along to teams while the research is ongoing so that suggested changes might be included in the final research project.
Participants:
Andrzej BANIAK, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Helena BLAZIC, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Radim BOHACEK, CERGE-EI
Darja BORSIC, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dario CZIRAKY, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
Anetta CAPLANOVA, University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ülo ENNUSTE, Estonian Institute of Economics, Tallinn, Estonia
Imre FERTO, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Jan HANOUSEK, CERGE-EI
Delia IONASCU, CERGE-EI
Timotej JAGRIC, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Byeongju JEONG, CERGE-EI
Stepan JURAJDA,CERGE-EI
Vilma KOLPEJA, National Albanian Center for Social Studies, Tirana, Albania
Przemyslaw KOWALSKI, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Gabor KOROSI, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Virmantas KVEDARAS, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Lubomir LIZAL, CERGE-EI
Wojciech MALISZEWSKI, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Nikolay MARKOV, Center for Economic and Strategic Research, Sofia, Bulgaria
Zbigniew MATKOWSKI, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Anna MYSLINSKA, CASE, Warsaw, Poland
Kosovska OGNJENOVIC, G17 Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Marta ORVISKA, Mateja Bela University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Katarina OTT, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb, Croatia
Zoltan PALAGY, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Filip PALDA, Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Quebec, Canada
Evgeni PEEV, Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Theodor POPESCU, National Institute for R&D in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
Attila RATFAI, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Lukasz RAWDANOWICZ, CASE, Warsaw, Poland
Marko SIMONETI, Central & Eastern European Privatization Network, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andras SIMONOVITS, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Djordje SUVAKOVIC OLGIN, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, CERGE-EI
Arlinda YMERAJ, National Albanian Center for Social Studies, Tirana, Albania
Kresimir ZIGIC, CERGE-EI
Discussants:
Temisan AGBEYEGBE, Hunter College-CUNY, New York, USA
Randall K. FILER, CERGE-EI and Hunter College-CUNY, New York, USA
Ira GANG, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Vladimir GLIGOROV, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Vienna, Austria
Karel JANDA, University of Iowa & CERGE-EI, Prague
Gary McMAHON, GDN, Washington DC, USA
Daniel MUNICH, CERGE-EI
Jose NOGUERA, CERGE-EI
Josef POESCHL, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Vienna, Austria
Sergey SLOBODYAN, CERGE-EI
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Global Development Network - Merck Conference
CERGE-EI, April 25-26, 2002
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: Global Development Network / Merck
The GDN together with the Merck Corporation, the large pharmaceutical company, have initiated a worldwide project on healthcare in the developing world. The focus of the study is on describing the contents of a minimum healthcare package in 10 countries of the world, the current obstacles to providing that package, and the policy changes (including financing) that would be necessary to reach that package. Reports from all 10 countries were presented at the Prague workshop.
Participants:
Tahmina BEGUM, Data International, Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ake BLOMQVIST, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Maria E. DINIZ BARROS, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brasilia, Brazil
Jacques van der GAAG, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rachel K. GESAMI, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
Adis ISRANGKURA, National Institute of Development Administration Bangkok, Thailand
Gary McMAHON, Global Development Network, Washington D.C., USA
Germano Mwiga MWABU, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Issidor NOUMBA, University of Yaounde II-SOA, Cameroon
Silvia M. PORTO, National School of Public Health and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wisarn PUPPHAVESA, National Institute of Development Administration Bangkok, Thailand
Ravi RANNAN-ELIYA, Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Jane RUSESKI, CERGE-EI
Judith SHAPIRO, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia
Aparnaa SOMANATHAN, Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
C. Nigel THOMPSON, Merck, Economic and Development Strategy Human Health, Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA
Jaromir VEPREK, CERGE-EI
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"Social Expenditures (comparison with Austria)"
CERGE-EI, December 4-5, 2001
Organizer: Marie Vavrejnova
Source of finance: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Grant No. 403/00/1209
The study "Social Expenditures and Their
Sources: Czech-Austrian Comparison" was discussed and prepared to
publication.
Participants:
Stepan CABELKA, CERGE-EI
Eva BELABED, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Linz, Austria
Jan HANOUSEK, CERGE-EI
Magdalena KOTYNKOVA, Research Institute for Labor and Social Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic
Marie VAVREJNOVA, EI
Jiri VECERNIK, Institute of Sociology, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
Marketa VYLITOVA, Research Institute for Labor and Social Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic
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"Alternatives of the Future Pension System in the Czech Republic"
CERGE-EI, September 3-4, 2001
Organizer: Marie Vavrejnova
Source of finance: Grant Agency of the ASCR, Grant No. A8085001
The current report of the study was negotiated.
Marie Vavrejnova presented an information about the Czech pension system.
Eva Belabed presented a paper about the Austrian pension system.
The term of the final report will be June 30, 2002.
Participants:
Eva BELABED, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Linz, Austria
Marie VAVREJNOVA, EI
Karl WOERISTER, Arbeitskammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Vienna, Austria
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GDN Regional Research Competition Workshop
CERGE-EI, July 22-23, 2001
Organizer: Randall K. Filer, CERGE-EI & Hunter College-CUNY, USA
Source of Finance: Global Development Network
This conference was designed as a mid-term
meeting of all 2001 Global Development Network (GDN) Research Competition grant
recipients to present their research goals achieved to date. Four external
professors were invited to serve as referees for all of the presented papers and
were instrumental in assigning mentors to those papers which needed guidance in
order to meet the stated goal of the competition which requires that supported
grants be submitted to refereed academic journals before the grant is
closed.
Participants:
Peter BENCZUR, National Bank of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Radim BOHACEK, CERGE-EI
Gheorghe CIOBANU, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jacek CUKROWSKI, Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Alexis DERVIZ, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Morten HANSEN, EuroFaculty, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
John HUDSON, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Malgorzata JAKUBIAK, Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Zsuzsa KAPITANY, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI
Vita KING, EuroFaculty, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Milic MILOVANOVIC, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Gyorgy MOLNAR, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Andreas ORTMANN, CERGE-EI
Catalin POSTELNICU, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Horatio RUS, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adam SZEIDL, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, CERGE-EI
Przemyslaw WOZNIAK, Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Discussants:
Randall FILER, CERGE-EI and Hunter College-CUNY, USA
Ira GANG, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Tim GOODSPEED, Hunter College-CUNY, New York, USA
David JAEGER, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, USA
Byeongju JEONG, CERGE-EI
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI
Yuko KINOSHITA, CERGE-EI
Evzen KOCENDA, CERGE-EI
Lubomir LIZAL, CERGE-EI
Daniel MUNICH, CERGE-EI
Jose J. NOGUERA, CERGE-EI
Sergey SLOBODYAN, CERGE-EI
Lyn SQUIRE, Global Development Network, Washington D.C., USA
Kresimir ZIGIC, CERGE-EI
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"eCommerce / eBusiness Seminar"
CERGE-EI, July 12, 2001
Organizer: Andreas Ortmann
Source of finance: Bank Austria
The second e-Commerce/e-Business Seminar, being
presented at CERGE-EI trough the generous assistance of Bank Austria took place
on Thursday, July 12, 2001 and was focused on e-Learning, which is almost
certainly the most consequential aspect of on-line commerce. Featured presenters
at this seminar were four researchers who currently are engaged in ground-
breaking research on various aspects of e-Learning.
Participants:
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI
Petr BENCZUR, National Bank of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Andreas ORTMANN, CERGE-EI
Diann RUSCH-FEJA, Library and Research Information, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
James TOOLEY, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
A. Ortmann: The Economics and Industrial Organization of e-Learning: An Introduction
D. Rusch-Feja: Disadvantages and Advantages of e-Learning: From First-Hand Experience
M. Kejak and A. Ortmann: e-Learning: A Way to Solve the Human Capital Mismatch Problem in Transitional Economies in Central Europe?
J. Tooley: Factors for Success in e-Learning: Applying the Lessons of the Global Education Industry
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"Long-term Unemployment in Transition Economics and Lessons from Past EU Accessions"
CERGE-EI, June 1-2, 2001
Organizer: Daniel Munich, CERGE-EI
Source of Finance: Phare ACE Grant No. P98-1129-R
It was 1st one of two project workshops
scheduled. The workshop dealt with the key research topics of the project.
The intention of this project is threefold. First, investigation of the evolution,
causes, and consequences of long-term unemployment in the Czech Republic,
Lithuania, and Slovakia, and inspection of the relevant country-specific labor-
market policies. Second, analysis of the EU-accession experience of Spain and
Sweden to understand why Spain suffers from high long-term unemployment while
Sweden does not. Third, relying on the results of these two sets of comparative
analyses we will examine labor-market policy combating long-term unemployment in
the wake of EU accession of the European transition economies.
Participants:
Ian BABETSKII, CERGE-EI
Boguslav GRUZEVSKIS, Institute of Labor and Social Research, Vilnius, Lithuania
Maia GUELL, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Henrik HUITFELDT, CERGE-EI and University of Uppsala, Sweden
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI
Daniel MUNICH, CERGE-EI
Daniela OCHRANKOVA, National Labor Office, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Jan SVEJNAR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Global Development Network, Prague Workshop
CERGE-EI, April 7 - 8, 2001
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: Global Development Network
This conference was a working conference to plan
for the country study phase of The Global Development Network's project titled
"Determinants of and Barriers to Growth". Authors from countries throughout
Central Europe met to determine a common approach to these papers including a
common set questions to be addressed and tables to be developed for all
countries in the region.
Participants:
Stojan BABIC, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Polona DOMADENIK, CERGE-EI, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Randall FILER, CERGE-EI
Thorvaldur GYLFASON, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Julius HORVATH, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Mark CHANDLER, EuroFaculty, Vilniaus Universitetas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Bostjan JAZBEC, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stepan JURAJDA, CERGE-EI
Mircea Teodor MANIU, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Maja MICEVSKA, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Mojmir MRAK, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Auron PASHA, Institute for Development and Research Alternatives, Tirana, Albania
Jekaterina ROJAKA, Lietuvos Bankas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Alexander SHIVAROV, Department of International Economics Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria
Boris VUJIC, Croatian National Bank, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivona G. YAKIMOVA, Varna University of Economics, Varna, Bulgaria
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"E-Commerce and Other Digital Economy Issues"
Bank Austria / CERGE-EI conference on E-Business and E-Commerce
CERGE-EI, March 28, 2001
Organizer: Andreas Ortmann
Source of finance: Bank Austria
Participants:
Daniel ARIELY, The Sloan Business School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, United States
Ronald HARSTAD, Rutgers University Business School and the Rutgers Center for Operations Research, New Brunswick, United States
Michael KUNIN, CERGE-EI
Bohdan KRUSHELNYTSKYY, CERGE-EI
Andreas ORTMANN, CERGE-EI
The first Bank Austria / CERGE-EI conference on E-Business and
E- Commerce took place on Wednesday, March 28, at CERGE-EI. The conference was
entitled "E-Commerce and Other Digital Economy Issues", and featured
presentations by Dr. Daniel Ariely, Professor in the Sloan Business School of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Media Laboratory; and Dr.
Ronald Harstad, Professor in the Rutgers University Business School and the
Rutgers Center for Operations Research. Prof. Harstad focused his comments on
Internet commerce and its recent decline. Preceding Prof. Harstad’s
presentation, CERGE-EI student Michael Kunin summarized five research papers by
Prof. Harstad which deal with issues related to these topics. Prof. Ariely’s
presentation dealt with on-line auctions and issues related to sales of this
nature on the internet. His presentation was preceded by a summary of his
research work, given by CERGE-EI student Bohdan Krushelnytskyy. Following the
presentations, Dr. Andreas Ortmann, Bank Austria Professor at CERGE-EI,
moderated a panel discussion which included questions from the audience.
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"Human Capital and Growth in Central European Countries"
CERGE-EI, January 19-20, 2001
Organizer: Nauro Campos
Source of finance: Phare ACE Grant No. P97-8085-R
This was a final meeting for the PHARE ACE
Project coordinated by Nauro Campos. The project aims to investigate the
macroeconomic aspects of the adjustment process and, in particular, to devise
estimates of the speed and the costs at which convergence to the EU average can
be expected. Based on the belief that the ten economies in question still share
characteristics derived from their common legacy of central planning, the
analysis limits itself to "transition economies", and it concentrates on aspects
where this legacy is most tenacious. It focuses on the five countries
constituting the first "wave" to investigate. Ultimately, the aim of accession
is adjustment of the regulatory and institutional framework and convergence in
per capita incomes of the candidate countries with the standards achieved in the
EU.
List of participants:
Nauro F. CAMPOS, CERGE-EI
Marek GORA, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Michal KEJAK, CERGE-EI
Martina LUBYOVA, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jan van OURS, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Anna RUZIK, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, CERGE-EI
Dana ZLABKOVA, CERGE-EI
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"The Macroeconomics of Accession: Fiscal Consequences of European Monetary Integration"
CERGE UK: December 17, 2000
Organizer: Jacek Cukrowski
Source of Finance: PHARE ACE Grant No. P98-1138-R
Participants:
Jacek CUKROWSKI, Center for Economic and Social Research, Warsaw
Emil STAVREV, CERGE-EI, Prague
Atilla RATFAI, CEU, Budapest
Constantin ZAMAN, ROSES-Université de Paris I, Panthéon - Sorbonne
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"Problems of Corporate Governance in the Czech Republic & Political Economy of Institutional Reforms in the EU"
| CERGE-EI, December 15 - 16, 2000 |
| Organizer: | Economics Institute of the AS CR
Charles University in Prague - CERGE
Charles University in Prague - Faculty of Social Sciences - Institute of Economic Studies
Marie Bohata
Frantisek Turnovec |
| Source of finance: | Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, research project No. A8085901
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, research project No. 402/00/0263 |
The workshop objective was to present and
discuss results of research project No. A8085901 of the Grant Agency of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and research project No. 402/00/0263
of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.
Topics:
a) Development of corporate governance in the Czech Republic
b) Business ethics and corporate governance
c) Development and behavior of political institutions in the Czech Republic
c) Models of decision making in the EU
d) EU debate on institutional reforms
e) Problems of the CEE extension of the EU
f) Regional redistribution in the EU
g) Regional reform in the Czech Republic
h) Economic theory of solidarity and the EU redistribution policies
Participants:
Marie BOHATA, CSO and Economics Institute of the ASCR, Prague
Jiri HLAVACEK, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Tomas JEZEK, Securities Commission, Prague
Eugen JURZYCA, Institute for Economic and Social Reforms, Bratislava
Rene LEVINSKY University of Freiburg
Elena MIELCOVA, Silesian University, Opava
Jan MLADEK, Ministry of Finance, the Government of the Czech Republic, Prague
Josef POESCHL, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna
Martina PECHOVA, CERGE-EI
Hana PESSROVA, CERGE-EI
Jana RAJDLOVA, CERGE-EI
Karel SOUKENIK, CERGE-EI
Miron TEGZE, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Frantisek TURNOVEC, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Jiri VECERNIK, Institute of Sociology of the ASCR, Prague
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"The Macroeconomics of Accession: Growth, Convergence and Structural Adjustment"
CERGE-EI, July 24-25, 2000
Organizer: Michal Kejak
Source of Finance: PHARE ACE Grant No. P97-8034-R
This project aims to investigate the
macroeconomic aspects of the adjustment process and, in particular, to devise
estimates of the speed and the costs at which convergence to the EU average can
be expected. Based on the belief that the ten economies in question still share
characteristics derived from their common legacy of central planning, the
analysis limits itself to "transition economies", and it concentrates
on aspects where this legacy is most tenacious. It focuses on the five countries
constituting the first "wave" to investigate. Ultimately, the aim of
accession is adjustment of the regulatory and institutional framework and
convergence in per capita incomes of the candidate countries with the standards
achieved in the EU.
Participants:
Fabrizio CORICELLI, University of Siena, Italy
Nicolas CRAFTS, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK
Harald HAGEMANN, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Bostjan JAZBEC, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alexander KAISER, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK
Michal KEJAK, CERGE, Prague
Johannes SCHUCHHARDT, Humboldt University, Berlin
Stephan SEITER, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Martin RAISER, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London
David VAVRA, Czech National Bank, Czech Republic
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV, EI, Prague
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Global Development Network, Prague Workshop
CERGE-EI, June 9 -11, 2000
Organizer: the World Bank - GDN, Prof. Randall Filer
Source of Finance: GDN
There were 64 participants from the Europe, Northern America, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Africa.
The GDN held a workshop for the authors of the Global Research Project on Explaining Growth's regional papers. This meeting was convened in cooperation with the International Economics Association as a means to providing the authors with an opportunity for cross regional dialogue and feedback from top international experts. Nobel laureate Robert Solow presented the keynote speech, and most of the workshop was divided into smaller groups along the lines of the thematic papers. In the final working session the participants discussed the common issues among the papers, notable omissions in the papers, and directions for the next stage of the Global Research Project B country studies.
Four thematic papers were prepared for each region. The four themes are:
A. Aggregate growth
A focus on sources and determinants of growth. The purpose of this paper is to summarize what cross-country growth analysis has to say about regional growth experiences.
B. Markets and economic growth
In this paper, authors are expected to explore the functioning of key markets especially for labour and capital and to assess the extent to which they have hampered or contributed to growth performance.
C. Microeconomics of growth
This paper explores the factors explaining growth from the perspective of microeconomic agents. It will focus in particular on households and enterprises, and will cover such issues as household saving and spending on education, and firm and farm investment and productivity growth.
D. Political economy of growth
Certain policies will undoubtedly emerge as an important part of variation in growth experiences. The paper on the political economy of growth will investigate why countries pursued the particular policies that they did sometimes even in the face of evidence of their failure.
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"Preliminary Workshop on Inflationary Biases during Transition"
CERGE-EI, February 12, 2000
Organizer: Randall K. Filer
Source of finance: PHARE ACE grant, No. P97-8119-R
Participants discussed various approaches to the
measurement problems involved in inflation, especially as they related to
transition economics and revised the work plan for the grant as well as deciding
on data needs and work asignments for the next months.
Participants:
Olga ANDREEVA, CERGE-EI
Michael BURDA, Humboldt University in Berlin
Irwin COLLIER, Free University Berlin
Randall K. FILER, CERGE-EI
Otar GORGODZE, CERGE-EI
Jan HANOUSEK, CERGE-EI
Yuriy KAPYS, CERGE-EI
Olga KETKINA, CERGE-EI
Illona KOVACS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Libor NEMECEK, CERGE-EI and Citibank
Emil STAVREV, Czech National Bank, Prague
Pavel YESIN, CERGE-EI
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"Human Capital and Growth in Central European Countries"
CERGE-EI, January 28 - 29, 2000
Organizer: Michal Kejak
Source of finance: PHARE ACE grant, No. P97-8085-R
This was a kick-off meeting for the PHARE ACE Project coordinated by Michal Kejak.
Participants:
Nauro F. CAMPOS (CERGE-EI) - Data on Hungary and Estonia
Marek GORA (Warsaw School of Economics) - Data on Poland
Byeongju JEONG (CERGE-EI) - Theoretical framework
Michal KEJAK (CERGE-EI) - Theoretical framework
Martina LUBYOVA (Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava) - Data on Slovakia
Jan van OURS (CentER - Tilburg) - Data on Austria and Spain
Viatcheslav VINOGRADOV (CERGE-EI) - Data on Czech Republic and Slovenia
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