Academic Conference
The First Annual International Conference in Economics
The First Annual International Conference in Economics was organized by the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center on December 28, 2009 in Minsk.
Participants:
Representatives of the Belarusian scientific economic community: current, undergraduate and post-graduate students, young teachers, professors, independent experts, researchers, economic journalists
Representatives of the international scientific diaspora, including leading economists of Belarusian origin
Representatives of the state authorities and international organizations.
In total around 100 people, 14 of them being famous Belarusian economists working in Western academia, participated in the Conference.
The Conference consisted of specialized topical panels on various aspects of modern economics followed by a plenary talk.It was the first major move to integrate Belarusian economic community into the global academic environment. The Conference became a specific meeting place for Belarusian experts who left and those who stayed in Belarus. The event demonstrated to the Belarusian society and the government that Belarus can be a attractive for the leading scholars and the best economists of Belarusian origin can and are willing to return home to work for the good of Belarus, for the development of its economic policy.
The Conference is to become a regular event in the scientific life of Belarus stimulating economic research and professional discourse on the problems in economy not only in Belarus, but also worlwide.
Presentations
Implications of Corporate Taxation
Professor Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University, USA, and Hong Kong University of Sciense and Technology, HK SAR, China
Interest Group Politics in a Federation
Professor Sergey Guriev, New Economic School, Russia
The Political Economy of Indirect Control
Professor Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School, USA
Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government
Professor Nancy Qian, Yale University, USA
Designing Optimal Pension Systems
Maxim Troshkin, University of Minnesota, USA
Equilibria Refinement in Dynamic Voting Games
Professor Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University Kellog School of Business, USA
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