Message-ID: <MAC.960311133839@maine.maine.EDU> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:38:39 EST From: "Dennis McConnell - UMaine, U.S.A." <mailto:mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: CFP - Transition Economics Conference - Sofia, Bulgaria To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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Call for Papers - International Conference
Restructuring Transitional Economies in the 90's:
Enterprise Behavior and Financial Intermediaries Adjustments
in Emerging Market Environments
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East-West Economic and Financial Centre
Sofia, Bulgaria
October 10-14, 1996
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Topic: Microeconomics and financial intermediaries of tran-
sition
Language: English
Deadlines: March 31 - abstract; June 30 - paper.
Information: Malinka Koparanova, Director
East-West Economic and Financial Centre
PO Box 1373, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Fax: (359-2) 63994689
E-mail: mailto:mkoparanova@sf.cit.bg
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Preliminary Program
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Session 1: Enterprise restructuring: empirical evidence from
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania
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Keynote issues: Simon Commander, Senior Economist, Economic
Development Institute, World Bank
Speakers:
* Garabed Minassian, Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences,
* Saul Estrin, London Business School
* Janos Kollo, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sci-
ences
* Gheorghe Zaman, Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy
of Sciences
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Session 2: Trade competitiveness and restructuring: theoretical
and empirical results for Bulgaria, Czech Republic and
Hungary
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Keynote issues: Alexander Dimitrov, Director, Institute of Eco-
nomics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Speakers:
* Malinka Koparanova, Institute of Economics and East-West Eco-
nomic and Financial Centre
* Lina Takla, London Business School
* Laszlo Halpern, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
* Miroslav Singer, CERGE and Institute of Economics, Czech Acade-
my
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Session 3: Privatization and restructuring: lessons from the CEE
countries
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Keynote issues: Jan Svejnar, Director, Institute of Economics,
Czech Academy of Sciences
Speakers:
* Gheorge Oprescu, Bucharest Polytechnic University,
* Jan Mladek, Director, the Czech Institute for Applied Economics
Studies
* Maria Prochaska, Centre for Democracy, Sofia
* Joel Turkewitz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
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Session 4: Panel on financial intermediaries in the transition:
problems and solutions
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Keynote issues: Victor Borun, Fordham University, New York
Speakers:
* Rumen Dobrinsky, Executive Director, 21 Century Foundation,
Sofia
* Marton Vagi, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary
* Amado da Silva, Director, Centre for Applied Studies, Catholic
University of Portugal
* Marek Belka, Director, Institute of Economics, Polish Academy
of Sciences
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Session 5: Panel on capital markets in a transitional environment
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Keynote issues: Stephen Hall, Imperial College, London
Speakers:
* Malinka Koparanova, Institute of Economics and East-West Eco-
nomic and Financial Centre, Sofia
* Jean-Louis Brillet, INSEE, Paris
* Katerina Smidkova, Institute of Economics, Czech National Bank
* Laszlo Szakadat, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary
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Session 6: Banking sector restructuring and enterprise restruc-
turing: causality, necessity, or vicious circle.
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Keynote issues: Zdravko Balijozov, Head of Monetary and Econom-
ic Analysis Department, Bulgarian National Bank
Speakers:
* Pavel Soukup, Institute of Economics, Czech National Bank
* Rebecca Emerson, Bank of England, UK
* Christopher Allen, Sussex University, UK
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Session 7: Round table discussion on the restructuring of the
transitional economies: summarising of the conclusions
from the panel discussions
Chairman: Saul Estrin, London Business School, UK
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