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MET SEMINAR @ BRUNEL – 16 of March 2012 - DRAFT AGENDA
9.30am-10.00am
Arrival and Registration: Tea, coffee and biscuits
10.00am -11.25am
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Chair: Grahame Fallon (Brunel)
Artane Rizvanolli
Staffordshire
Human capital and the attraction of FDI inflows in European transition economies
Hubert Gabrisch
Halle
The Twin Deficits Hypothesis and the Import Propensity in Transition Countries
11.25am – 11.35am
Break and Refreshments
11.35am – 1.00pm
BAD LOANS AND GROWTH IN THE BALKANS REGION
Chair: Jens Hölscher (Brighton)
Maja Ivanovic
Staffordshire
Estimation of macroeconomic and bank-specific determinants of loans` quality
Montenegro
Bozidar Cerovic,
Aleksandra Nojkovic
Belgrade
Looking for a New Model of Growth in Transition Economies: What Went Wrong?
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch
2.00pm – 3.25pm
Parallel Track 1
LABOUR: INCOME AND WAGES
Chair: Marcello Signorelli (Perugia)
Merita Zulfiu Alili
Staffordshire
Foreign Ownership and Wage Inequality in Macedonia
Cristiano Perugini;
Fabrizio Pompei
Perugia
Employment Protection and Earnings Inequality within Education Groups
David Aristei;
Cristiano Perugini
Perugia
The Drivers of Income Mobility in Europe
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2.00pm-3.25pm Parallel Track 2
INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS, PART I
Chair: John Bennett (Brunel)
Michael Keren
Jerusalem
A Model of the Soviet Economy: From Stalin via Gorbachev to Collapse
Alexandra Prascevic
Belgrade
Rent Seeking Preferences of Opportunistically Motivated Policymakers in Serbia
Daphne Athanasouli,
Antoine Goujard,
Pantelis Sklias
UCL
Corruption and Firm Size: Disentangling the contextual effect of corruption
3.25pm – 3.35pm
Break and Refreshments
3.35pm – 5.00pm
Parallel Track 1
LABOUR: EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS
Chair: Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston)
Anna Rebmann
UCL
Bankruptcy Law and High Growth Entrepreneurship
Remi Bazillier;
Christina Boboc;
Oana Calavrezo
Bucarest
Employment vulnerability in Europe: is there a migration effect?
3.35pm-5.00pm Parallel Track 2 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS, PART II
Chair: Olga Kuznetsova (Manchester Metropolitan)
Paulina Stepien
UCL
Determinants of Generalised Trust: Three Level Analysis
Rainer Schweickert;
Kiel
External Actors and Domestic Institution Building in the Post-Soviet Space. Russia and
China
UCL
The Governance of Innovation: Science Cities and Science Parks in Russia, 1989-2010
Inna Melnykovska;
Hedwig Plamper
Imogen Wade
Location:
All sessions in Elliot Jacques Building, Brunel University Campus, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex (West London)
Plenary sessions, lunch and Track 1: Elliot Jacques seminar room (First floor)
Track 2: Elliot Jacques room EJ007 (Ground floor)
Participation is free of charge, but number of places is limited. To participate, please contact Grahame Fallon at
Grahame.Fallon@brunel.ac.uk
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