Seminar series: Academic year 2005/2006

Date Speaker Title Location and Time
May 19, 2006

Michael Gentile (Stockholm School of Economics)

The production of the "non-productive" sector: economic-geographical perspectives on the urban development of Soviet-era Daugavpils

14:30-16:00
Room 611
May 11, 2006

Steven Plaut (University of Haifa)

Riga housing market

17:30
Room 611

May 2, 2006 Ray Rees (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)

TBAHousehold Models, Labour Supply and Taxation

17:30, Room 611
April 4, 2006 Marco Tonin (Stockholm University) The effects of the minimum wage in an economy with tax evasion 17:30, Room 611
March 7, 2006 Vita King (Centre for European and Transition Studies, Riga) How to cut the seigniorage cake into fair shares in an enlarged EMU 17:30 , Room 611
February 7, 2006 Evguenia Bessanova (CEFIR, Moscow) Trade liberalisation and productivity of Russian firms 17:30-19:00, Room 611
December 13, 2005 Virmantas Kvedaras (Vilnius University) Sudden stops, drops, and the recovery speed Room 611
December 6, 2005 Mihails Hazans (University of Latvia and BICEPS) On-the-job search, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction in Latvia Room 611
Novembe 2, 2005 Arnis Sauka (SSE Riga and University of Latvia) Specific characteristics of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in an advanced transition setting: data from Latvia Room 611
October 11, 2005 Andris Kotans (SSE Riga, New Zealand) Effective corporate tax rates in Eastern Europe, 1995-2005 18:00, Room 611
October 5, 2005 Anne De Bruin (Massey University) Toward understanding entrepreneurship in the creative industries Room 611
September 19, 2005 Gustav Kristensen (EuroBaltic Centres of Excellence, Riga) Econometric model building in urban economics 17:30, Room 611