Transition Economics Summer Workshop for Young Academics

CEPR's first annual Transition Economics Summer Workshop for Young Academics was held in Prague from 29 June to 8 July 1988. The workshop was organized by Jacek Rostowski (Central European University, Budapest), Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University) and Jan Svejnar (WDI, CERGE-EI, Prague, and CEPR). The following papers were presented:

'Multinational Enterprises and the Emergence of Markets and Networks in Transition Economies', Klaus Meyer (Centre for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School)

'Chained Monopolies and Innovation Adoption in Restructuring Economies', Ella Kállai (CERGE-EI, Prague)

'Privatisation Funds and Corporate Governance in Bulgaria', Rilka Dragneva (University of Sussex)

'Stochastic Economic Shocks and Incentives for (Dis)Integration', Jan Fidrmuc (CentER, Tilburg University, and ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

'Restructuring as a Signal: A Simple Formalization', Emilio Colombo (University of Southampton)

'The Evolution of Bank Credit Quality in Transition: Theory and Evidence from Romania', Enrico C Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam and CEPR) and Octavian V Carare (Tinbergen Institute and Rutgers University)

'Does Market Organization Speed Up Market Stabilisation? First Lessons from the Budapest and the Warsaw Stock Exchanges', Anna Zalewska-Mitura (London Business School)

'Screening Borrowers in Transition Economies: Two Risk Parameter Version', Gyöngyi Lóránth (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

'A Macro-Theoretic Model of an Economy in Transition', Tsvetomira S Tsenova (University of York)

'Private Pension Schemes and Financial Sector Development in Transition Economies', Lisa Cook (Harvard Institute for International Development) and Katharina Pistor (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg)

'Vorsprung durch Training? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland', Patrick A Puhani (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, and SELAPO, Universität München)

'A Strategic Overlapping Model of Wage Differentials: The Case of Hungary 1972-1996', Arpad Abraham (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

'Public Sector Labor Markets in Transition Economies: The Case of Hungary', Gábor Kézdi (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

'Twin Peaks in Regional Unemployment and Returns to Scale in Job-Matching in the Czech Republic', Stefan Profit (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

'The Prince and the Pauper Revisited: A Bootstrap Approach to Poverty and Income Distribution Analysis Using the PACO Data Base', Georges Heinrich (Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot-Watt University)

'The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Hungary', Catherine Saget (Centre March Bloch, Berlin)

'The Influence of the Shadow Economy on Russian Economic Development', Ekaterina Vostroknoutova (St Petersburg State University for Economics and Finance)

'A Cointegration Analysis of Polish Inflation', Byung-Yeon Kim (University of Essex)

'Labour Supply in the Informal Economy and Second Job Holding in Russia', Alexandre Kolev (European University Institute, Firenze)

'Wage Differentials Between State and Private Sector', Maxim Bouev (St Petersburg Institute of Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

'Insider Privatization and Restructuring', Guzel Bilialova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

'Production and Rent-Seeking Behaviour', L Polishchuk Alexandre Savvateev (CEMI, New Economic School, Moscow)