VW project: Migration and Remittances in Central Asia
Economic Systems
Yearbook for the History of Eastern Europe
Announcement
From 14 to 16 of July 2010 the Second Joint OEI/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe will take place. The topic is “Openness and Growth. Lessons for Transition and Development“. >>>
Publications
February 2010
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring by analysing parts and components gross trade flows using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. In OEI Working Paper No. 280, Richard Frensch suggests that gravity formulations of this sort are potentially mis-specified. The paper suggests an alternative specification rooted in incomplete specialisation. Results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe, from "old" to "new" EU members, driven by supply-side country differences compatible with models of incomplete specialisation and trade. Specifically, more offshoring of activities from old to new EU-members means predominantly offshoring of new activities rather than extending the scale of already offshored activities. This is in stark contrast to offshoring of activities from old EU-members to east Asia, including China.
OEI-Working Paper Nr. 280 can be downloaded at http://www.oei-dokumente.de/publikationen/wp/wp-280.pdf
Topics
February 2010
OEI research project (German Science Foundation, DFG) finalised
The final report on the OEI Regensburg phase of the project “Labour market effects of international outsourcing: A comparative analysis with micro-data” was completed in February 2010. During this final phase, the German Science Foundation (DFG) financed the 2009 part-time employment of a research post that was occupied by Richard Frensch, OEI Department of Economics, Migration and Integration. The OEI project phase was used for putting forward alternative explanations for internationally varying labour market effects of international offshoring, based on recent trade theories. In this respect, special emphasis was put on differentiating between strengthening existing offshoring relationships (i.e., strengthening offshoring along the intensive margin) as opposed to strengthening offshoring along the extensive margin by new relationships.
final DFG-report (partly in German)
Publications
February 2010
The new Spotlight Ukraine February 2010 is now available.
Topics
February 2010
First OEI Research Fellow appointed
To further increase international visibility, the OEI has begun building up a network of Visiting and Research Fellows. Following his stay at the OEI (1 to 26 of February), Prof. Dr. Evzen Kocenda (CERGE, Karls-Universität Prag) was appointed OEI Research Fellow. Evzen Kocenda is Professor of Economics at the Charles University in Prague.
Visiting Fellow at the OEI
Februar 2010
From 1 to 26 of February, Prof. Dr. Evžen Kočenda (CERGE, Karls-Universität Prag) was a Visiting Fellow at the OEI Regensburg. Evžen Kočenda is Professor of Economics at the Charles University in Prague. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston. He has taught at the New York University and Université Paris IX - Dauphin. Affiliated with the William Davidson Institute, CEPR, and EABCN. Member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Comparative Economics (2004-2006), Economic Systems (since 2009) and the Czech Journal of Finance and Economics (since 1998). Main areas of research include applied econometrics and European integration. On February 23 he gave a lecture on “Divide and Privatize: Firms Break-up and Performance”.
Presentations - Conferences
February 2010
On 16 of February 2010 a workshop with contributors coming from Australia, Ireland and Germany discusses the issue of veterans and war-damaged in Eastern Europe in the 20th century. The workshop is organized by OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh and by PD Dr. Natali Stegmann (University of Regensburg) and funded by Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung. The question of sociopolitical strategies concerning the veterans in the Eastern European societies after World War II will come to the fore.
Publications
January 2010
The new Spotlight Ukraine January 2010 is now available.
Presentations - Conferences
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.
Presentations - Conferences
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)
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