Month: May 2023

We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminar and are delighted to welcome prof. dr. Richard Frensch (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies). Prof. Frensch works in the economics department of Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and operates as managing editor of Economic Systems. Prof. Frensch has had a strong impact on research and policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe, in addition to running influential journal, Economic Systems, he has performed as consultant for United Nations and for many institutions in Germany, Czech Republic and Ukraine. His research interests are in international economics; growth, technology and development; and institutional change and transition. He has published in top development economics journals such as Journal of Development Economics and in many general interest comparative journals.

Speaker: prof. dr. Richard Frensch (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

More about the speaker: https://leibniz-ios.de/personen/details/richard-frensch

Title: Topography, borders, and trade across Europe (with Jarko Fidrmuc and Michael Rindler)

Date: Thursday, June 1

Time: 16:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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https://sseriga-edu.zoom.us/j/89670402222?pwd=aTBBbDR0RUlPVDk1UWRxdkVSTXJYUT09

Meeting ID: 896 7040 2222
Passcode: 295496

We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminar and are delighted to welcome Ija Trapeznikova. Ija is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at Royal Holloway and a research associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies in Riga, Latvia. She has obtained her PhD from Northwestern University (IL, USA). Ija’s research lies at the intersection of Macroeconomics and Labour Economics, studying general equilibrium models of individuals and firms and how their behaviour is affected by different policies. Her recent line of work  looks at employment, productivity growth and inequality in the development context, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Ija has published in highly ranked general interest journals such as the Economic Journal and International Economic Review. She has previously served as a short-term consultant for the World Bank working on the projects on youth employment in Africa and unemployment in Latvia.

Speaker: Ija Trapeznikova  (Royal Holloway and BICEPS)

More about the speaker: https://sites.google.com/site/ijatrapeznikova/

Title: Output Shocks and Firm Recruitment (with Jesper Bagger, Francois Fontaine and Manolis Galenianos)

Date: Thursday, May 18

Time: 16:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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https://sseriga-edu.zoom.us/j/84563799427?pwd=VzVER2V4Z2djVm51T21iMUx3QUhvZz09

Meeting ID: 845 6379 9427
Passcode: 377808