Kyiv Economics Institute Events
Seminars
2007/11/23 Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University (The Eitan Berglas School of Economics) and New York University (Department of Economics), presented "Some Thoughts on Games, Decisions, Experiments and Brain Studies"
2007/11/20 Vladimir Vakhitov, Kyiv School of Economics, presented "Marshall Scale Economies in Ukraine: Proximity or Restructuring?" (please see abstract)
2007/11/07 Eyal Winter, Hebrew University of Jeruslaem, presented "Multi-Agent Initiatives with Type-dependent Externalities"
2007/11/05 Libor Dusek (Assistant Professor of Economics, CERGE-EI) will present "Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy"
2007/10/22 KEI and KSE workshop on Economics. Four speakers presented: Benedikt Herrmann (University of Nottingham), Erik Herron (University of Kansas), Olena Gnezdilova (KEI) and Andrei Zapechelnyuk (KEI).
2007/10/16 Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna, presented "Informal Employment and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine"
2007/10/10 Pavlo Prokopovych (KEI and KSE) presented paper "Transfer continuities in discontinuous games"
2007/10/05 Robert Swidinsky, University of Guelph, presented "The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest of Canada"
2007/09/26 Yuriy Gorodnichenko presented "Flat tax and tax evasion: Lessons from the Russian tax reform"
2007/09/21 Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University) presented "The Cluster-Robust Variance-Covariance Estimator - A Practitioner's Guide
2007/09/19 Bent Sorensen (University of Houston) presented "Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?" (joint work with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef and Oved Yosha)
2007/09/07 Andrei Shevchenko, Michigan State University, presented "Money and the Variety of Goods" (together with Kenneth Burdett) and "Money in a Credit Economy in the Presence of Shocks"
2007/06/04 Ivan Yuryk, Kyiv School of Economics, presented "Analysis of Behavior of Ukrainian Parliament members" (Abstract)
2007/06/01 Jean Hindriks, CORE, Catholic University Louvain, presented "Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization" (joint with Susana Peralta and Shlomo Weber)
2007/05/30 Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Center for Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented "Contracts for Experts with Opposing Interests" (Abstract)
2007/05/28 Alexander M. Danzer and Natalia Weisshaar, Humboldt University Berlin, presented "Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine"
2007/05/18 Alexei Savvateev, Assistant Professor at NES, Moscow, Ph.D., SEMI, post doc, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain presented "What does a small business fear most? A study of shake-out process driven by dominant firms"
2007/05/16 Olexiy Kryvtsov, Senior Analyst of the Research Department, Bank of Canada, presented "Markups and Inventories in General Equilibrium (S, s) Model"
2007/05/14 Scott Loveridge, Associate Chairperson, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, MSU, presented "Time Preferences for Social and Private Goods in the US"
2007/04/23 Denis Popko and Alexander Tkachuk, Kyiv National University after Taras Shevchenko presented "ON THE PATTERNS OF TRADE CONVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN TRANSITION COUNTRIES" (Abstract). The complete version of the paper can be provided by KEI upon request
2007/04/16 Stepan Jurajda, the Deputy Director for Research of CERGE-EI and a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, presented his paper "Which Firms Benefit More from Financial Development?" (Abstract)
2007/04/11 Dr. Abdul Noury, Professor of Economics, Institut d'Etudes Europ'eennes (IEE) at Universit'e Libre de Bruxelles, presented his paper "Enlargement and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament"
2007/04/02 Tymofiy Mylovanov, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Bonn, presented his paper on diverging opinions (Abstract)
2007/03/28 Dr. Johannes Muenster, Free University Berlin, presented his paper "Sabotage"
2007/03/23 Academic Talk with Dr. Jurgen von Hagen, Professor of Economics, Institut fur internationale Wirtschaftspolitik, University of Bonn. Sovereign Risk Premiums in the European Bond Market
2007/03/19 Presentation by Daniel Krahmer (Free University Berlin): "Delegation and Incentives"
2007/03/12 Professor Paul Cheshire, London School of Economics, presented his paper titled "The price of access to nicer neighborhoods: capitalization and residential segregation" (please read presentation). The complete version of the presentation can be provided by KEI upon request
2007/03/05 Andrei Shevchenko (MSU) presented his paper "The Export Decision in the Presence of Underemployment"
2007/02/19 Sergey Slobodyan, PhD (CERGE-EI) presented his paper "The Demographic Challenge of the Interconnected Education and Pension System in the Czech Republic" (joint paper with V. Vinogradov)
2007/02/12 Iryna Murtazashvili (MSU) presented "A Control Function Approach to Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Models" (Job Market paper)
2007/02/05 Tetyana Dubovyk (University of Minnesota) presented "Twin Cities"
2007/01/29 Oleksandr Shepotylo, PhD (EERC/KEI) presented his paper "What determines quality of governance: spatial approach"
2006/12/18 Oleksandr Talavera, DIW, presented his paper titled "Self Employment and Windfall Gains"
2006/12/11 Victoria Kravtsova, PhD candidate at Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (MERIT), presented paper co-authored with Ari Kokko titled "Innovative Capability in MNC Subsidiaries: Evidence from Four European Transition Economies" (see abstract)
2006/12/04 Hannah Vakhitova (Assistant Professor, EERC/KEI) and Maria Vyshnia (Junior Economist, EERC) presented "Free economic zones at glance" (see abstract)
2006/11/27 Olena Gnezdilova (Junior Economist, KEI) will presented her paper titled "Corruption Level Influence on Severity of Tobacco Control Policy: Panel Data Analysis" (see abstract)
2006/11/27 Oleksandr Shepotylo, Ph.D (EERC/KEI) presented his paper "Quality of governance: Spatial analysis of the impact of relative geographic location"
2006/11/20 Professor Alexei Deviatov (NES and CEFIR, Moscow) presented his paper "Estimating a Cagan-type demand function for gold:1561-1913"
2006/11/13 "Ukraine: Current Positions and Opportunities" by Valentin Zelenyuk
2006/11/06 Jan Kmenta (University of Michigan) presented his paper "Econometrics: A Failed Science?"
2006/10/18 Arne Melchior presented his paper "Sunk export costs and entry barriers in foreign markets"
2006/10/16 Mark Schaffer presented his paper “Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias”
2006/10/13 KEI and EERC/EROC seminar "Correlation and Efficiency in Repeated Games" by Pavlo Prokopovych
2006/09/25 Andriy Bodnaruk presented his paper "Shareholder diversification and decision to go public"
2006/09/18 Bent Sorenson presented “Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education”
2006/07/27 Grigory Kosenok presented his paper "Public Markets Tailored for the Cartel-Favoritism in Procurement Auctions"
2006/07/26-27 Lectures on Corporate Governance by Prof. Evzen Kocenda (CERGE-EI)
2006/06/15 Hanna Vakhitova (U Kentucky) presented her paper "What Do We Know About Firm-Paid General Training: The Case of Microsoft Certification"
2006/05/15-23 Lectures by Prof. Robin Sickles, Rice University (Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2003-present, Associate Editor of Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1988-2002 / etc. For more information, please download paper "Turning from Crime: A Dynamic Perspective" and presentation.
2006/05/17 KEI and EERC/EROC seminar "Correlation and Efficiency in Repeated Games" by Pavlo Prokopovych. For more information, please download seminar presentation.
2006/05/15 KEI and EERC/EROC seminar "Fixed Effects Instrumental Variables Estimation in Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Models" by Iryna Murtazashvili (Michigan State University).
2006/05/10-12 "Distinguished Lectures on Migration and Incentives" by Prof. Oded Stark (Senior Fellow and a Professor of Economics at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, a University Professor and Chair in Economic and Regional Policy at the University of Klagenfurt, an Honorary University Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Warsaw University, a Distinguished Fellow at the Center of Migration Research, Warsaw University, and the Research Director of ESCE Economic and Social Research Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt). The materials that served as a basis for Professor Stark’s lectures have been deposited in the EERC Library. Those who are interested in browsing through Professor Stark’s recent published work are welcome to visit the web-site of the ESCE (Economic and Social Research Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt): www.esce.at.
2006/04/19 KEI-EERC lecture "Regret-based adaptive strategies with discounting" by Dr. Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Center for Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2006/04/11 KEI-EERC lecture "Asymmetric info and liquidity constraints" by Assistant Professor of Finance Dr. Dmytro Holod, SUNY - Stony Brook College of Business. For more information, please download the lecture presentation.
2006/04/07 EERC-EROC presentation "The effect of treaties on FDI flows" by Irina Orlova.
2006/03/29 KEI-EERC lecture "Economic Challenges of Multilingual Societies" by Prof. Shlomo Weber, Universite catholique de Louvain (CORE’s Research Director).
2006/03/27 Job market presentation by Alexander Shepotylo, University of Maryland. For more information, please download job market paper "Regional Governance Infrastructure: The Positive Externality on the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment".
2006/03/10 Valentin Zelenyuk participated in the seminar "Local Likelihood Estimation of Truncated Regression and its Partial Derivatives: Theory and Application" (Houston, Texas, USA). For more information, please view paper presented at the seminar.
2006/02/24 EERC-EROC lecture "Repression as Non-Material Incentive under Stalin" by Paul Gregory (EERC IAB).
2006/02/24 KEI-EERC lectures by Dr. Alexei Savvateev, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia.
2006/02/17 KEI-EERC lectures by Dr. Alexei Savvateev, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia. For more information, please download "Jurisdictions on the Plane" lecture materials.
2005/12/22 Job market presentation "Managing a Partnership Efficiently" by Natalya Kuribko, Duke University.
2005/11/25 KEI, EERC and NAUKMA seminar "The Problem of Savings and Pension Benefits" by Pavlo Prokopovych. For more information, please download the seminar presentation.
Workshops
2006/06/27-30 Pavlo Demchuk participated in the Tenth European Workshop of Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Lille, France) and presented Total Factor Productivity Growth in Ukraine: triumph of disaster?
2006/12/15 Pavlo Prokopovych presented “Correlation in Repeated Games with Public Monitoring”at Research Workshop,
Moscow
2006/08/26 Valentin Zelenyuk presented “Local Likelihood Estimation of Truncated Regression and its Partial Derivatives: Theory and Application” (joint with
Byeong
Park and Leopold Simar) at European Econometric Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria
2006/06/28-30 Valentin Zelenyuk and Pavlo Demchuk participated in NAPW IV (North American Productivity Workshop IV) which took place in New York. Please visit http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~napw/2006/dev/links.html to learn more about the workshop. Valentin Zelenyuk presented “Local Likelihood Estimation of Truncated Regression and its Partial Derivatives: Theory and Application” (joint with
Byeong
Park and Leopold Simar)
2006/06/19 Ukrainian Productivity and Efficiency Group (UPEG) Workshop. Papers prepared by the Ukrainian participants for the North American Productivity Workshop IV were presented during the workshop
2006/04/17-18 KEI, UPEG (Ukrainian Productivity and Efficiency Group) at EROC/EERC-Kiev (National University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy") and Lviv Academy of Commerce together with the Institute of Strategic Research (Lviv Affiliation) held the Second Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency Analysis: Theory and Applications. For more information, please download the conference agenda and call for papers.
2006/02/02 KEI and EERC/EROC held an International research workshop "ICT: Impact on Economic and Social Development". For more information, please download the workshop agenda and presentations made at the workshop.
2005/12/06 KEI and EERC/EROC held a joint International Workshop "Different Approaches to Policy Modeling for Ukraine". For more information, please download the workshop agenda.
Conferences
2007/10/24 Public Lecture "Democracy and the Global World Challenges" by General Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State, United States of America
2007/10/8 Public Lecture "Ukraine in a Four Speed World" by Mr. James Wolfensohn, Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, Chairman of Citigroup International Advisory Board and the 9th President of the World Bank Group
2007/03/23-24 KEI participated in the conference "Wind of Change" organized by CASE. KEI researchers together with the economists from the other countries and international organizations discussed issues of global imbalances, migration flows, governance and economic development, inflation targeting and EU integration prospects for Ukraine.
2007/02/15(16) KEI and EERC/EROC Student Conference "The Economics of Transition: Evidence from Ukraine and the surrounding countries"
2007/02/31 Public Lecture for Ukraine's Political and Business Community on "The Economic Future of Space Exploration for Ukraine and the World" featuring Ms. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, USA). Among other speakers: Mr. Leonid Kuchma, Former Ukraine's President; Yuriy Alekseev, Director General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine; Dr. Henry Hertzfeld, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University; and Mr. Leonid Kadenyuk, First Astronaut of Independent Ukraine
2007/01/26 International Conference "Ukraine
and the WTO: Implications of International Economic Integration” (KEI/EERC). Agenda
2006/11/8 Pavlo Demchuk participated in the conference "The Current Practices and Prospects for Regional Development in Ukraine". The conference was convened for the express purpose of promoting national-regional dialogue on the social and economic development of Ukraine’s regions and sharing international and local best practices in regional development approaches and tools. Pavlo Demchuk presented "Economic Effectiveness of Ukrainian Regions".
2006/11/16-17 Keynote Speech “Current Position and Opportunities” by Valentin Zelenyuk at Portoroz Business Conference
2006/10/12-13 KEI and EERC/EROC Anniversary Celebration. Lectures by Robert Engle and Francis Fukuyama
Robert Engle, the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the concept of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH).
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of SAIS' International Development program.
Please read media articles about the Anniversary Celebration
26.10.2006. Collection of media articles. : >>>
23.10.2006. Бизнес взялся за ум. Украинская Инвестиционная Газета : >>>
19.10.2006. EERC, EROC and KEI Anniversary. Kyiv Post : >>>
17.10.2006. Украинские олигархи формируют правила развития страны. Дело : >>>
17.10.2006. Що таке соціальний капітал?. День : >>>
14.10.2006. World: Fukuyama Says Ideas On Liberal Democracy 'Misunderstood'. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty : >>>
13.10.2006. Віктор Пінчук як шеф економічної тусовки. Уніан : >>>
13.10.2006. Фукуяма от Пинчука. Главред : >>>
2006/10/1 Hannah Vakhitova chaired the section (Personnel and Labor Economics) at the conference "Ukraine
during the transition: perspectives and recommendations" organized by the Association of Ukrainian Economists in Alushta
2006/02/16 Valentin Zelenyuk participated in UKEPAN Conference "Efficiency in Ukrainian Banking" (Leicester, UK). For more information, please download the conference presentation.
2005/11/24 KEI, EERC/EROC and NUPI held a joint International Conference "Close To Or Part Of: Ukraine and the EU". For more information, please download the conference agenda and article "Association or membership? Experience of Norway and Poland’s relations with the EU" by Olha KORNIYCHUK, The Day.
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