Centre for Comparative Economics (CCE)

Seminar Series, October - December 2011

• January 17
  Anneli Kaasa (Economics University of Tartu)
  Advantages and Shortcomings of Transition Countries in Innovative Activity

• January 24
  Simon Pirani (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
  The role of natural gas in CIS economies and the elusive potential of energy saving

• February 21
  Evghenia Sleptsova, Paul Domjan, and Mike Liu (Country Insights)
  Eastern Europe: Market Perceptions versus Economic Fundamentals

• March 6
  Chris Gerry (SSEES-UCL)
  Healthcare in Russia

• March 13
  Marcello Signorelli (University of Perugia)
  Financial Crises, Uncertainty and Unemployment

• March 20
  Igor Yegorov (Dobrov Centre for Science and Technology Potential and Science History Studies, Ukraine)
  Ukraine: in-between economic integration with Russia and the EU

• May 9 NB. Wednesday 4.30-5.30pm Room 431
  Jaaniika Meriküll (Essti Pank, Estonia, University of Tartu and Estonian Visiting Scholar at UCL SSEES)
  Foreign Direct Investment and Host Country Employment Volatility

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Term 1

• October 11
  Svetlana Ledyaeva (Center for Markets in Transition, Aalto University (Helsinki))
  Foreign Investment Flows between Russia and Offshore Financial Centers: Institutional Arbitrage or Institutional Escape?

• October 18
  Daniel Horgos (Helmut Schmidt University)
  (When) Does Tit-for-Tat Diplomacy in Trade Policy Pay Off?

• October 25
  Marton Csillag (SSEES, UCL)
  Machines and Machinists: Capital-Skill Complementarily from an International Trade Perspective

• November 1
  (Note: 6pm-8pm, room 431-433)
  Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD))
  In Search of the Balkan Recovery: the Political and Economic Re-Emergence of South-Eastern Europe

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  Grzegorz Kolodko (Transformation, Integration, and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER) and Kozminski University)
  Neoliberalism, the World Crisis, and Uncertain Future

• November 22
  Beata Smarzynska Javorcik (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
  Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania

ALL WELCOME FREE OF CHARGE, NO REGISTRATION EXPECTED.

Contact: Dr Eugene Nivorozhkin (Director, Centre for Comparative Economics), e.nivorozhkin@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

 
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