Seminar series: Academic year 2007/2008
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Date |
Speaker | Title |
Location and Time |
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October 16, 2007 |
Glenn Blomquist (Visiting Fulbright Scholar Stockholm School of Economics in Riga) |
"Eliciting Willingness to Pay without Bias: What Field Experiments Show about Cheap Talk, Certainty, and Real Purchases" |
17.30-19.00 Room:611 |
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November 6, 2007 |
Duo Qin (Queen Mary, University of London) |
"Uncover Latent PPP by the Dynamic Factor Error Correction Model (DF-ECM)Approach: Evidence from Five OECD Countries" |
17.30-19.00 Room:403 |
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November 20, 2007 |
Olegs Tkachevs (Bank of Latvia) and Anna Zasova (University of Latvia) |
"Taxation in Latvia with application to labour market issues" |
17.30-19.00 Room:611 |
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November 27, 2007 |
Olga Rastrigina (BICEPS and TeliaSonera Institute, SSERiga) |
"Family Interactions in the Making of Entrepreneurs in Latvia" |
17.30-19.00 Room:611 |
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December 3, 2007 |
Zane Cunska (BICEPS) |
"Mobility of the student population: the regional perspective in Latvia" |
17.30-19.00 Room:611 |
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January 24, 2008 |
Jevgenijs Steinbuks (Miami University, Ohio) |
"Credit regulation and the availability of subprime mortgage credit" |
17.30-19.00 Room:611 |
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January 29, 2008 |
Glenn Blomquist (Visiting Fulbright Scholar Stockholm School of Economics in Riga) |
"Individual and Social Returns to Schooling: Estimates for Students of Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges Colleges" |
17.30-19.00 Room:407 |
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March 4, 2008 |
Vjacheslav Dombrovsky (SSE-Riga, BICEPS) |
"Political Connections and Firm Performance: The Latvian Way" |
16.30-18.00 Room:403 |
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April 4, 2008 |
Mihails Hazans (University of Latvia) |
''Return migrants' earnings premium: Evidence from Latvia" |
16.30-18.00 Room:403 |
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April 17, 2008 |
Irina Zujeva (University of Latvia) |
"Modelling Health: Multidimensional Impact of Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Factors on Health in Latvia" |
16.30-18.00 Room:307 |
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April 24, 2008 |
Raul Eamets (Tartu University) |
"Estimating demand for PhDs in Estonia" |
16.00-17.30 Room:403 |
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May 16, 2008 |
Jorg Rocholl ( European School of Management and Technology) |
"Political Connections and the Allocation of Procurement Contracts" |
13.00-14.30 Room:403 |
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May 22, 2008 |
Ray Rees (University of Munich) |
"Piecewise Linear Taxation: Theory and Practice" |
16.30-18.00 Room:411 |
| May 28, 2008 |
Jurgita Baltrusaityte-Axelson |
"Is Reactive vs. Proactive Opportunity Recognition a Personality Trait? Examining the New Business Venture Motivators: The Real Options Approach" |
17.00-18.30 Room:307 |
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May 30, 2008 |
Jaanika Meriküll (Tartu University) |
"The impact of innovation on employment: firm and industry level evidence from Estonia" |
16.30-18.00 Room:403 |
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June 3, 2008 |
Karsten Staehr (Central Bank of Estonia) |
"Unreported Work and Tax Evasion in the Baltic Countries: Comparing Developments and Causes" |
16.30-18.00 Room:403 |
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June 5, 2008 |
Oksana Žabko (Baltic Institute of Social Sciences) |
''National holiday" |
16.30-18.00 Room:403 |
Seminar series: Academic year 2006/2007
Seminar series: Academic year 2005/2006