Academic year 2006/2007

Date Speaker Title Location and Time

September 12, 2006

Egle Tafenau (Christian-Universität zu Kiel)         

Tax policy in the models of new economic geography

17:30-19:00,
Room 611

September 14, 2006

Arina Nikandrova (Cambridge University)

Rational herding and informational cascades in financial markets        

15:00-16:30
Room W32

September 20, 2006

Martin Hilb (University of St. Gallen)

New corporate governance:from good guidelines to great practice

11:30-13:00 Room 611

October 10, 2006

Anete Pajuste (Riga Business School)

Securities laws enforcement in transition countries

17:30-19:00 Room 611

 

November 2, 2006

Vaiva Petrikaitė (State Tax Inspectorate, Lithuania)

Estimation of Unreported GDP in Lithuania: An Application of the Currency Demand Approach

17:30-19:00 Room 611

November 23, 2006

Mārtiņš Kazāks and Liene Kūle (Hansabanka and BICEPS/SSE Riga)

Some aspects of the Latvian labour market - is immigration necessary?

18:00-19:30 Room 611

February 7, 2007

Virmantas Kvedras (Vilnius University)

FDI: global competition, incentives and risks

17:30-19:00 Room 611

 

February 19, 2007

Marius Jurgilas (University of Connecticut)          

Interbank markets under currency boards

9:30-11:00 Room 611
 

February 22, 2007

Olivier Bertrand (University of Toulouse)

Cross-Border Acquisition or Greenfield Entry - Does it Matter for Affiliate R&D?

17:30-19:00 Room 611

March 1, 2007

Fuat Erdal (Adnan Menderes University)

Economic Freedom and Economic Growth: Time Series Evidence From The Italian Economy

17:30-19:00 Room 611

March 14, 2007

Paolo Ruspini (University of Warwick)

The Eastward enlargement and the migration space revisited 17:30-19:00 Room 411

March 28, 2007


Professor Giorgio Dominese (LUISS International University Rome and University of Udine)

 

Business Government Relations in transition countries and the new theories of growth

17:30-19:00 Room 611

March 30, 2007

Geert Hofstede (Maastricht University)

Methods of cross-cultural research

11:00-13:00 Room 407

April 11, 2007

Karsten Staehr (Bank of Estonia)

Fiscal policies and business cycles in an enlarged euro area

17:30-19:00 Room 411

 

April 18, 2007

Andrey Borodayevsky (Seinan Gakuin University)

Bracing for  global  battles: M&A in inter-regional rivalry

17:30-19:00 Room 411

May 17, 2007

Ulf Axelson (SIFR)

The financial structure of leveraged buyouts

17:30-19:00 Room 611

May 28, 2007

Zuzana Brixiova (IMF)

Impact of Subsidies and Payroll Taxes on Firm Creation and Employment in Central Europe

17:30-19:00 Room 611

June 6, 2007

Guido Sechi (SSE Riga)

A knowledge-based approach for the assessment of regional systems’      

17:30-19:00 Room 611

June 12, 2007

Vladimir Popov (New Economic School)

Shock therapy versus gradualism reconsidered:lessons from transition economies after 15 years of reforms

17:30-19:00 Room 611

To be announced soon

 

Arnis Sauka (SSE Riga)

 

Productive vs. unproductive entrepreneurship: findings from Latvia

17:30-19:00 Room 611