August 2011
Summer School at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan
From August 1 to August 5, 2011, the Institute for East European Studies Regensburg organized a Summer School at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. more...

August 2011
Achim Schmillen at the Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau
From August 23 to August 27, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the 4th Meeting of Economics Nobel Laureates at Lindau (Bavaria). At the meeting 17 laureates (among them George Akerlof, Robert Mundell and Joseph Stiglitz) and 370 young economists from 65 countries discussed the future of economics as a discipline, the sustainability of healthcare and old-age welfare systems and recent labor market developments. The Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau have been organized annually since 1951; the first meeting on economic sciences took place in 2004.

July 2011
Summer Academy 2011
From 29. June to 01. July, 2011 the Third Joint OEI/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe took place in Tutzing. The topic was "Energy and Environment in Eastern Europe". more...

June 2011
Achim Schmillen at the Pennsylvania Economic Association
From June 2 to 4, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Economic Association at Dickinson College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania/USA). At the conference he presented his paper on "Long-Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Unemployment - First Evidence from German Registry Data".

May 2011
Roman Smolorz at the Silesian University of Kattowitz
On May 24th, Dr Roman Smolorz gave a talk to students at the Department of History as an invited speaker on the topic "The emigration from Upper Silesia to West Germany in the 1980s."

April 2011
Achim Schmillen at the Society of Labor Economists
On April 29 and 30, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists in Vancouver (Canada). At the conference he presented his paper “Long-Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Unemployment – First Evidence from German Registry Data” in the session „Earnings Dynamics and Dispersion”.

April 2011
Ekaterina Selezneva in St. Petersburg
On April 14th, the Institute for East European Studies and the Gender Studies Program of the European University at Saint-Petersburg held a joint seminar on "Social Norms and Life Satisfaction. The Role of Women in Family and Society" within the framework of "Deutsche Woche in St. Petersburg". During the meeting, participants discussed transformations of private life and gender roles that occur in contemporary Russia and Germany. They also considered the impact which these transformations have on women's subjective life satisfaction. In the seminar researchers from the Institute for East European Studies (Ekaterina Selezneva) and the European University at St. Petersburg (Vera Galindabaeva, Ekaterina Borozdina) presented findings of their recent projects.

April 2011
Michael Knogler, Ekaterina Selezneva and Miriam Frey in Moscow
From 4-7 April Michael Knogler, Ekaterina Selezneva and Miriam Frey participated in the "XII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development" at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Michael Knogler presented his paper "Social Models in the Enlarged European Union: Policy Dimensions and Country Classification" (joint work with Fidelis Lankes from the University of Applied Sciences Munich). Ekaterina Selezneva talked about "What makes Russian Women (un)happy?" and Miriam Frey gave a speech on "The Effects of Trade Liberalization between the EU and Ukraine in a Computable General Equilibrium Model" (joint paper with Zoryana Olekseyuk-Viber).

March 2011
Alexander M. Danzer in Dushanbe
In March, members of the research team of the project "Migration and Remittances in Central Asia" met in the Tajik capital Dushanbe to start preparations for a nationally representative household survey that will be conducted later this year. Alexander M. Danzer, who attended the meetings as a representative of the OEI Regensburg, met staff of several research and survey institutes.

March 2011
Richard Frensch at the University of Perugia
Within the Research Seminar Series in Economics of the Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica of the University of Perugia, Richard Frensch gave an invited presentation on "Trade in Parts and Components: Evidence for Offshoring." 

February 2011
Miriam Frey in Brighton
On 18 February 2011 Miriam Frey participated in the 25th Research Seminar of the Managing Economic Transition Network. The seminar took place in Brighton and was organised by the Economic & Social Transition (EST) Research Group of the University of Brighton in cooperation with the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. In the session "country studies" Miriam Frey gave a speech on "Effects of Trade Liberalization between the EU and Ukraine in a Computable General Equilibrium Model" (joint paper with Zoryana Olekseyuk-Viber from the University of Duisburg-Essen).

January 2011
Visit of Bavarian Minister for European affairs in WiOS
Invited by the OEI, on January 21, 2011 Emilia Müller, Bavarian Minister for federal and European affairs, visited the WiOS. Within the framework of "Regensburg lectures" she talked about "Bavaria in the Danube region - driving force for European integration." In the ensuing discussion she debated the Bavarian aims within the strategy concerning the Danube region which is compiled on behalf of the council of Europe to coordinate common interests of the directly and indirectly adjacent states and to take European integration forward in this European macroregion.

January 2011
Ksenija Ursulenko in Almaty
In January 2011 Ksenija Ursulenko gave an intensive SPSS-course for a Kazakh project partner (CIOM) in Almaty. The course consisted of a wide range of topics including data management, validation and methods of multivariate data analysis.