VW project: Migration and Remittances in Central Asia
Economic Systems
Yearbook for the History of Eastern Europe
OEI Visiting Fellows Program
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Visitors
August 2010
Fidelis Lankes visiting fellow from August 9 to August 19, 2010
Within the research project ‘International Comparison of Social Models' Prof. Dr. Fidelis Lankes (Munich University of Applied Sciences) and OEI-economist Michael Knogler did comparative research on social models in Eastern Europe.
Publications
July 2010
New Working Paper by Ekaterina Selezneva
In Working Paper 287 Ekaterina Selezneva investigates whether male or female perceptions of potential mismatches between socially imposed patriarchal family gender roles and the actually performed ones influence their reported life satisfaction. It is concluded that for the period 1994 - 1998, the relative unhappiness of women is likely to be caused by their increasing earning powers relative to men or their overload with housekeeping activities in households with children. During the second sub-period, 2000 - 2004, a change in women's preferences over time-use and income shares is observed, suggesting a tendency towards wishing for their emancipation.
Publications
July 2010
New OEI Working Paper by Enzo Weber
Capital formation, exports and FDI are often seen as major sources of economic growth in emerging markets. Enzo Weber's OEI Working Paper No. 286
analyses the impacts of these aggregates on economic development in Eastern European countries. In a structural multivariate cointegrated time series framework, the fundamental innovations are identified by empirically and theoretically motivated short- and long-run restrictions. Impulse responses and variance decompositions reveal quite different growth effects in various countries. Generally, strong reliance on exports goes along with higher GDP. This effect is more prevalent in Eastern Europe compared to Asia Pacific, where capital accumulation played a key role. Furthermore, FDI bears substantial potential for fostering economic growth. It is shown that the recent worldwide recession clearly hit Eastern Europe through the export channel, whereas the recovery is mainly supported by positive demand shocks.
OEI intern
Juli 2010
Gewährung von Bonusmitteln für eingereichten DFG-Antrag
Die Universität Regensburg bewilligte einen Antrag von Richard Frensch auf Bonusmittel im Rahmen der Förderlinie A des Finanziellen Anreizsystems für Drittmitteleinwerbung. Der damit geförderte Antrag bei der DFG und der GA CR (Grantová Agentura CR: Grant Agency of the Czech Republik) ist Teil eines gemeinsamen Projektes mit Evzen Kocenda (CERGE, Prag).
Publications
July 2010
New Spotlight Ukraine
The new Spotlight Ukraine July 2010 is now available.
Presentations - Conferences
July 2010
Summer Academy 2010
From 14 to 16 of July 2010 the Second Joint OEI/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe took place. The topic was "Openness and Growth. Lessons for Transition and Development." more...
Presentations – Conferences
July 2010
Day of Economy „Eastern Europe“ 2010
The Board of Trade in Regensburg held a Day of Economy with focus on Eastern Europe on 15 July, 2010. The day was organized in cooperation with the Institute for East European Studies and with the HypoVereinsbank. The economic perspective of Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia came to the fore, as these countries have very favourable prognoses. The Day was introduced by OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh, who summarized the political history and culture of these countries. Then representatives of the German boards of trade in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia gave economic overviews of their countries.
Presentations - Conferences
July 2010
Presentation by Prof. Andrei Zagorski
On July 7th Prof. Andrei Zagorski gave a lecture about positions in current Russian security policy within the scope of "Regensburg lectures on Eastern Europe".
Russian security policy is seeking its place in a multipolar world where so called "sovereign democracies" are forming global opinion. On a multilateral level - G8 and G20 - cooperative control of global developments is executed.
Presentations - Conferences
June 2010
Presentation by Katrin Boeckh
OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh delivered on June, 26 2010 a lecture on "Strategies of religious repression under Stalin: Case study Western Ukraine" on the conference "Religion, Nation, and Saecularism in Ruthenian respectively Ukrainian Culture of Modern Times", which was organized by the International College for Graduates Religious Cultures in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries (LMU Munich/Charles University in Prague), by the Peter Jacyk Centre for Historical Research, CIUS, University of Alberta, and by the Free Ukrainian University Munich.
Presentations - Conferences
June 2010
Richard Frensch und Achim Schmillen in Vallendar
From June 23 to June 25 2010 Richard Frensch und Achim Schmillen took part in the workshop Twenty Years of Economic Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe in Vallendar. The workshop was organized by the Center for EUropean Studies (CEUS) of the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. At the workshop Richard Frensch presented his paper "European Trade in Parts and Components: Searching (for a Trade Model for Searching) for Offshoring Evidence" (available as OEI Working Paper 280), while Achim Schmillen talked about „The Penn Effect and Transition - The New EU Member States in International Perspective".
Publications
June 2010
Short Article by Katrin Boeckh
Historian Katrin Boeckh examines the conditions for the development of a civil society in 20th century Ukraine in a short article.
The essay was published in a conference volume about the Ukraine and the end of the Communist Regime release in Ternopil' 2010.
Presentations - Conferences
June 2010
Jürgen Jerger, Enzo Weber and Richard Frensch in Vienna and Bratislava
In cooperation with the OEI, the 13th FIW Workshop on "Global Trade and Growth after the Crisis" took place in Vienna, on June 18, 2010. OEI research was presented by the director, Jürgen Jerger, and OEI Research Fellow Enzo Weber. On the previous day, Jürgen Jerger had spoken at the University of Bratislava, and Richard Frensch at the FIW-wiiw-Seminar in International Economics.
"Global Trade and Growth after the Crisis"
FIW-wiiw-Seminars in International Economics
Presentation J. Jerger, Bratislava
Presentation J. Jerger, Vienna
Presentation E. Weber, Vienna
Publications
June 2010
New Memorandum by Ekaterina Sprenger and Volkhart Vincentz
Central and Eastern European Countries have been severely affected by the 2008 financial crisis. Several ways of contagion of the financial turmoil worked at different strengths in the different countries. Although the disparities of the effects of the financial crisis are rather large, there are a number of common explanatory features.
Mechanisms of transmission of the global financial crisis to the CEECs and its effects on these countries are discussed in the OEI Memorandum No. 48.
Publications
June 2010
New OEI Working Paper by Achim Schmillen
The assumption that national labor markets are homogenous across tradable and non-tradable goods is common in multisector (open-economy) macro models and crucial for the prominent Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. The OEI Working Paper No. 285 by Achim Schmillen tests it with a novel method to distinguish the tradable and non-tradable sectors grounded in economic theory, modern empirical methods and a large and detailed macro data set. It finds that both the internal relationship between productivity and wages in the tradable and non-tradable sectors postulated by the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis and its external transmission mechanism are rejected.
Publications
June 2010
Paper by Ekaterina Selezneva is forthcoming in Economic Systems
A revised version of the OEI Working Paper No. 279 is forthcoming in Economic Systems. In "Surveying transitional experience and subjective well-being: income, work, family," Ekaterina Selezneva reviews subjective well-being studies on income, work and family life with a particular attention to transition countries. The main differences with respect to developed countries appear to be the results of uncertainty and fast changing conditions, and their effect upon the perception of subjective economic conditions, and on the formation of expectations. A short summary of more than 70 studies involving subjective well-being and attitude indicators on data from economies in transition is included as well.
Publications
June 2010
The new Spotlight Ukraine June 2010 is now available.
Publications
June 2010
New OEI Working Paper by Katharina Eck
In Working Paper No. 284, Katharina Eck explores the question how international trade can lead to economic growth. The starting point of her considerations is that technical progress is regarded as the only source of sustained economic growth. Consequently international trade will only affect economic growth if it influences the rate of technical progress. Via theoretical models and empirical evidence Katharina Eck argues that international trade fosters the production of ideas in industrial countries and the use of ideas in developing countries which is crucial for technical progress. Finally she shows in a separate analysis that the variety of imported capital goods in a country can contain information on its growth aspects.
Visitors
June 2010
Elena Vishlenkova and Trude Maurer visiting fellows from June 20 to June 30, 2010
Professor Elena Vishlenkova (State University – School of economics, Moscow) and Professor Trude Maurer (Göttingen University) are specialized in university history. At our Institute, they will do comparative research on the initial phases of women’s higher education in Russia and Germany. On June 29, 2010, at 1 p.m. Trude Maurer presented the results and the outlines for their further studies.
Topics
June 2010
PhD thesis of Ekaterina Selezneva shortlisted for “EACES Award 2010”
European Association for Comparative Economic Studies has finished the first round of selection for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative economic systems and economics of transition (biannual PhD award ‘EACES Award 2010’). The PhD dissertation of Ekaterina Selezneva “Subjective Well-being in Russia” is amongst four shortlisted for the award.
Vorträge und Veranstaltungen
Juni 2010
Jürgen Jerger bei den Wirtschaftsjunioren Regensburg
Am 08.06.2010 sprach OEI-Direktor Jürgen Jerger auf Einladung der Wirtschaftsjunioren Regensburg im Hans-Linder-Hörsaal der Universität Regensburg zum Thema „Griechenland? Euro? Konjunktur? – Versuch einer Zwischenbilanz“. Anschließend stand er als Diskussionspartner zur Verfügung. Die Folien zum Vortrag finden Sie hier.
Presentations - Conferences
June 2010
Katrin Boeckh at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Invited by the Papal Historical Commission and by the Russian Academy of Sciences, OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh gave a presentation on “The Russian Emigration in Germany between the two World Wars” for a symposium entitled “The Catholic Church and the Russian Emigration in Europe between the two World Wars”, organized in Moscow on June, 2.-5. 2010. One of the results of the highly esteemed conference was the fact, that the catholic-orthodox contacts in Western Europe were strongly influenced by the wave of Russian emigrants after the Bolshevik Revolution, but that this topic at the same time still requires further historiographical efforts.
Presentations - Conferences
May 2010
Achim Schmillen in Kiel
On May 27 and 28 2008 Achim Schmillen took part in the Xth Doctoral Meeting in International Trade and International Finance. At the Meeting he presented his paper on “Reassessing the Implications of Tradable and Non-Tradable Wages for the Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis”. The Xth Doctoral Meeting in International Trade and International Finance was organized by the network Research in International Trade and Finance, the Kiel-based Institut für Weltwirtschaft and the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (Paris); it took place in the building of the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Kiel.
Publications
May 2010
New research results on the Moscovite image of war in the age of tsar Ivan IV Groznyj (1530–1584)
These days the proceedings of the international conference on the history of the conflict between the main Baltic powers on the domination of the eastern part of the Baltic Sea at the beginning of the new era, which took place in november 2007 in St. Petersburg State University, were published in Moscow. In this book (“Baltijskij vopros v kontse XV–XVI vv. Sbornik nauchnykh statej” [The Baltic question at the end of the 15th and in the course of the 16th centuries. Collection of scientific articles]), edited by Aleksandr I. Filjushkin, you can find the treatise of Reinhard Froetschner, M.A., “Recepcija oficial’nogo moskovskogo „obraza vojny“ na periferii carstva i ego transformacija vsledstvie poraženija v Livonskoj vojne (na materiale povestvovatel’nych istočnikov iz Pskova konca XVI veka)” [The reception of the official Muscovite image of war at the periphery of the tsardom and its transformation as consequence of the defeat in the Livonian War in the mirror of narrative sources from Pskov from the end of the 16th century] (S. 275–291).
Publications
May 2010
New OEI Kurzanalyse by Michael Knogler: Employment adjustment und labour market measures in the new EU Member States
Kurzanalyse Nr. 46 summarizes the impact of the global financial crisis on employment and unemployment in the new EU Member Staates. Like in Germany job losses have been mitigated so far by recourse to increased internal flexibility in the form of shorter working hours. Some countries try to alleviate the impact of economic slowdown on the labour markets through labour market measures in the context of the European Economic Recovery Plan. pdf
Presentations - Conferences
May 2010
Jürgen Jerger in Brussels
From May, 18-19 2010, the 3rd Western Balkans Civil Society Forum took place in Brussels at the European Economic and Social Comittee. The aim of the event was to take stock of and to further develop workable institutions of civil societies in the Non-EU states of the Western Balkan region. OEI director Jürgen Jerger gave a survey presentation entitled „The relations between the European Union and the countries of the region: state of play and regional perspective“. Here is a written version of the presentation and the slides.
Presentations - Conferences
May 2010
Barbara Dietz participated in the ENRI-East meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania (29th April until 3rd May). ENRI-East partners discussed qualitative and quantitative surveys of the ENRI-East project and dissemination activities.