UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
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Workshop on
“Rational Calculation versus Trust in Emerging Credit Card Markets”
The team members of the NSF, and MTA–OTKA–NSF project on emerging credit card
markets cordially invite you to attend their workshop.
Venue: Institute of Economics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, XI. Budaörsi út
45, Rm 804, December 16, 2005, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Program
9:00–9:20 Akos Rona-Tas, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, Principal Investigator
“What have we learnt so far about credit assessment in emerging credit card markets? – An overview of the
project and its findings”
9:30–9:50 Olga Kuzina, Professor of Sociology, Higher School of Economics, State University, Moscow
“The Russian credit card market”
10:00–10:20 Alya Guseva, Professor of Sociology, Boston University, Co-director of the project
“Credit cards and banks in Ukraine”
10:30–10:50 Tuan Pham, Deputy Dean, School of Management, Hanoi Technical University
“Credit cards and IT solutions in the banking sector in Vietnam”
11:00–11:20 Kristina Karagyozova, Research Associate at the Bulgarian National Bank
“The Bulgarian credit card market”
11:30–11:50 Lubomir Lizal, Director of CERGE, Prague
“The Czech credit card market”
12:00–12:20 Iván Major, University of Veszprem and Institute of Economics, H.A.S.
“Information sharing among banks – a model”
We would be grateful to all participants for their comments and suggestions about the project.
You are invited to have lunch with us at the Institute after the workshop.