UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Nordic-Baltic Research Group
29 April 2010, University College London, Chandler House, B02
Nordic and Baltic Economies: Problems and Prospects
ESRC Seminar Series “The Nordic and Baltic States in the European Political Imagination”
10.00 - 10.30 Registration
10.30 – 10.45
Welcome Dr Robin Aizlewood
Director of the UCL School of Slavonic and East
European Studies
10.45 – 12.45
Is labour market flexibility a safe boat Prof Raul Eamets
for Baltic Economies? University of Tartu, Estonia
Technological specialisations: Dr Cornelia Junge
The Baltic States and their Nordic neighbours University of Abertay Dundee
The end of incomes policy in Finland Dr Tapio Bergholm
SAK/University of Helsinki, Finland
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 – 15.30
Migration, development and the global Prof Christian Dustmann
economy University College London
Inequality neutral flat tax reforms in Europe: Alari Paulus
Differences between East and West Research Fellow,
Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee/tea
15.45 – 17.15
Iceland: Recovering from Prof Gylfi Zoega
a collapse of a financial system University of Iceland
Birkbeck College, University of London
Panel discussion:
Nordic and Baltic Economies:
Problems and Prospects
For registration, please contact Dr Allan Sikk (a.sikk@ucl.ac.uk)
The registration fee is £10; free for UCL/SSEES staff and students;
£5 for registered students of other universities (payable at the event).