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December 2010
Achim Schmillen at the University of California, Berkeley
Within his five-month research visit to the University of California, Berkeley, Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration spoke on December 03, 2010 at UC Berkeley's Labor Lunch Seminar. At the seminar he presented his paper „Long-Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Unemployment - First Evidence from German Registry Data ".
November 2010
Barbara Dietz in Stuttgart
Barbara Dietz hielt in Stuttgart am 20. November auf der Tagung „Ost- und Mitteleuropa:
Migration als Motor der Entwicklung?", die vom Europa Zentrum Baden-Württemberg und vom Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart e. V. veranstaltet wurde, den Vortrag "Die Auswirkungen der Transformationen in Ost- und Mitteleuropa auf die Migration".
Präsentation Dietz
November 2010
Roman Smolorz at Baltic Academy, Lubeck
As a speaker at the seminary “Go west – immigrants from Poland in the Federal Republic of Germay”, Roman Smolorz, member of the Department of History at OEI, presented the so-called “Alltagsgeschichte” (ie. “history of everyday life”) as well as the political involvement of various groups of Polish immigrants, living in Southern Germany after 1945.
October 2010
Jürgen Jerger as keynote speaker at this year's Oxford Summit of Leaders
At the invitation of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Jürgen Jerger was keynote speaker at this year's Oxford Summit of Leaders. At the meeting under the general topic "Greater Europe: new frames of relations with Eastern and Southern neighbouring countries" he gave a speech with the title: After the crisis (?) Challenges and opportunities (in Eastern Europe).
October 2010
Michael Knogler in Tutzing
From October 15 to 16, 2010, Michael Knogler presented his paper “Absicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit: Situation in den neuen EU-Mitgliedsländern” at the joint conference of the Politische Akademie Tutzing, the IAB, and the OEI.
Presentation Knogler
October 2010
Presentation “Industrial Environmental Degradation in Kazakhstan“
On October 12th Dr. Gaukahr Makashova from Kazakhstan presented the main results of her three-month research stay at the OEI, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. The recent severe environmental national catastrophe caused by industrial soil and water pollution in Hungary demonstrates that the solution of this problem should enjoy high political priority for Kazakhstan, where large amounts of toxic wastes are stored without proper environmental protection.
Presentation Makashova
September 2010
Miriam Frey in Dublin
From September 24 to 25, 2010, Miriam Frey took part in the 7th Annual Meeting of the Irish Society of New Economists (ISNE) at the Trinity College Dublin and presented her paper “Convergence across Kazakh Regions” (joint work with Carmen Wieslhuber).
Presentation Frey
September 2010
Ekaterina Selezneva in Pescara
On the 9-10 of September 2010, Ekaterina Selezneva presented a joint work with Henrik Huitfeld on the topic "Labour Market Attachment in the Western Balkans: Some evidence Using Sequence Analysis" during the XXV National Conference of Labour Economists in Pescara (Italy).
Presentation Selezneva
August 2010
Alexander M. Danzer in Shanghai and Glasgow
Alexander M. Danzer, research associate at the project “Migration and Remittances in Central Asia“, financed by the VW foundation, presented a paper at two renowned international conferences: the World Congress of the Econometric Society in Shanghai and the Annual Conference of the European Economic Association in Glasgow. The presented research paper on “Pension Generosity and the Income Effect on Retirement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence” is forthcoming in the OEI Discussion Paper series.
August 2010
Ekaterina Selezneva and Richard Frensch in Tartu
From August 26 to 28, 2010, Ekaterina Selezneva and Richard Frensch took part in the 11th Bi-Annual Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES). The conference took place in Tartu (Estonia) and was mainly dedicated to the topic: Comparing Responses to Global Instability.
At the conference, Ekaterina Selezneva presented her paper "What makes Russian women (un)happy? A closer look at the family" (OEI Working Paper 287), while Richard Frensch talked about "The Penn Effect and Transition - The New EU Member States in International Perspective" (joint work with Achim Schmillen). Richard Frensch also participated for Economic Systems in the "Meet the Editors" session.
Presentation Frensch, Presentation Selezneva
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...
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 2010
ABDOS-session at the WiOS
From 10 to 12.5. the 39th ABDOS-session, under the motto "Global, central or marginal? - Prospects for Libraries dealing with East and South East Europe" takes place at the WiOS. It is organized jointly by OEI, Südost-Institut, the Association of Libraries and Documentation Centres on Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe Studies (ABDOS) eV and the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft. This largest conference for librarians dealing with East and Southeast Europe in German-speaking countries is organized every year and - after 1983 - for the second time in Regensburg.
April 2010
Annie Tubadji's Paper ‘The CBD Hypothesis' Awarded at AFIT, Reno, Nevada
On 14 April, 2010, at the Western Social Science Association 52nd Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, Annie Tubadji was acknowledged by the Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) with the Student Paper Award 2010 for her paper on ‘The Culture-Based Development (CBD) Hypothesis'. Developed by Tubadji under the supervision of Prof. John Hall, Portland State University, the paper presents an innovative theoretical model of the impact of cultural capital on sustainable development. The award was handed by Prof. Underwood, AFIT President, during the official academic ceremony on the first day of the conference and was followed by a presentation of the paper at the ‘Award Paper' Session on the next day.
Presentation
April 2010
Achim Schmillen in Luxembourg and Trier
From April 15 to April 17 2010 Achim Schmillen took part in the 15th „Spring Meeting of Young Economist“, the most important European conference for young economists. At the meeting he presented a paper on „Reassessing the Implications of Tradable and Non-Tradable Wages for the Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis“. Subsequently, on April 20 2010 Achim Schmillen gave an invited seminar at the University of Trier’s Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community. At the seminar he presented the paper „Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment – A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions“, co-authored with Joachim Möller and available as OEI Working Paper 275.
April 2010
Anti-Crisis-Conference in Uzbekistan
Upon invitation of the Government of Uzbekistan, Manuela Troschke participated in the conference "The Effectiveness of the Anti-Crisis Program and Priorities of Post-Crisis Development in the Case of Uzbekistan" which took place on April 12th in the Uzbek capital Tashkent.
Presentation
March 2010
At the DGO (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde) Annual Conference “Lessons from the crisis - society, institutions and values in Eastern Europe” taking place in Regensburg from March 18 to 19, 2010 OEI senior researcher Barbara Dietz gave a lecture on “Migration and Crisis: Implications for Central and Eastern Europe”.
March 2010
OEI-director Jürgen Jerger gave a lecture at the conference "Crisis of the World Economy" of the Akademie for Civic Education in Tutzing (Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing) on the impact of the current financial crisis on economic science. Afterwards he participated in a panel discussion dealing with this topic.
March 2010
OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh gave a lecture at the Workshop “From «Milieu de mémoire» to «Lieu de mémoire»? Methodological considerations about religious places of rememberance in Eastern Europe on the basis of selected examples” (Herder Forschungsrat, Fachkommission für Kirchen- und Religionsgeschichte) in Bad Kissingen on March 5 2010 on the topic “The Croation cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960) as religious place of rememberance”.
Picture: Stepinac memorial in Krašić
February 2010
On 16 february 2010 a workshop with contributors coming from Australia, Ireland and Germany discussed the issue of veterans and war-damaged in Eastern Europe in the 20th century. The workshop was organized by OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh and by PD Dr. Natali Stegmann (University of Regensburg) and funded by Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung. The question of socialpolitical strategies concerning the veterans in the Eastern European societies after World War II came to the fore.
January 2010
On January 28 Mr. Vladimir Socor gave a lecture on „Russian Energy Strategies in the EU and the European Neighborhood“. Mr. Socor is a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation.
January 2010
Within the Research Seminar Series in Economics of the FU Berlin OEI Acting Managing Director Richard Frensch gave a presentation on "Trade in Parts and Components: Evidence for Offshoring."
Presentation (in German)
Januar 2010
Auf der internationalen Konferenz „Polnische Wachmannschaften bei der US-Armee in den Jahren 1945-1989", die von der Universität Stettin, vom Institut des Nationalen Gedenkens Stettin sowie vom Marschallamt der Woiwodschaft Westpommern im polnischen Stettin organisiert wurde, hielt Dr. Roman Smolorz von dem Arbeitsbereich Geschichte des OEI Regensburg am 15. Januar 2010 einen Vortrag zum Thema: „Polnische Wachmannschaften in Bayern zwischen 1945 und 1949 am Beispiel der Stadt Regensburg - Wachleute und die DP-Gemeinschaft".
Programm
Januar 2010
Im Rahmen der „Regensburger Vorträge zum östlichen Europa" referierte Gabriel Glöckler am 14. Januar zum Thema „Alle Wege führen nach Frankfurt? Mittel- und Osteuropa und der Euro in Zeiten der Krise". Herr Glöckler ist stellvertretender Abteilungsleiter EU-Institutionen bei der Europäischen Zentralbank.
Präsentation
