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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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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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We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminar and are delighted to welcome Aldona Kapacinskaite (Bocconi University). Aldona is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. She earned her PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School. Her research examines drivers of organizational innovation, including how changes in the competitive and appropriability environments affect the use of trade secrets, investment in new technology, and product launches and updates. In 2022, she was awarded the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management Division Best Dissertation Award and was a finalist for the Strategic Management Division Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her research has also been recognized by several StrategicManagement Society Strategy Research Foundation awards. Currently, she is a Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy. She holds a double MSc in Economics and Public Policy from Ecole Polytechnique and Sciences Po Paris. Prior to joining academia, she held research roles at the European Commission, Google, and INSEAD.

Speaker: Aldona Kapacinskaite  (Bocconi University)

More about the speaker: https://sites.google.com/view/aldonakap/home

Title: Keeping Invention Confidential (with Colleen Cunningham)

Date: Thursday, April 27

Time: 16:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminar and are delighted to welcome Toomas Laarits (New York University, Stern School of Business). Toomas works as an assistant professor in New York University since 2019, he has obtained his PhD and MA in Financial Economics from Yale University and AB in Mathematics from Harvard University. His research interests are in asset pricing and financial intermediation and he has published in top finance journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Journal of Financial Stability.

Speaker: Toomas Laarits (New York University, Stern School of Business)

More about the speaker: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/toomas-laarits

Title: The Retail Habitat (with Marco Sammon)

Date: Thursday, March 2

Time: 15:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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Meeting ID: 856 3084 0129
Passcode: 253255

We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminars and are delighted to welcome Ronald Masulis (UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales). Ron is the Scientia Professor of Finance and AGSM Scholar at the UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales. Ron received his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago. His published research spans financial institutions, market microstructure, international finance, venture capital, law and economics and corporate governance topics such as mergers and acquisitions, boards of directors, executive compensation, ownership structure and business groups. Among financial economists worldwide, he has one of the highest sustained rates of top tier publications and frequency of citations across a range of top finance journals and the Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Law and Economics.

Speaker: Ronald Masulis (UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales).

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

Title: Influential Independent Directors’ Reputation Incentives: Impacts on CEO Compensation Contracts and Financial Reporting (with Shawn Mobbs).

Date: Thursday, January 26

Time: 10:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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We are pleased to announce the 1^st Baltic Central Banks Invited Lecture Series and Conference. The inaugural lecture will be given by Elhanan Helpman. The lecture’s topic is “Frontiers of International Trade” and will cover key elements of modern international trade, including the roles of firm heterogeneity, multinational corporations, and global supply chains.

The lecture is intended for researchers, both at policy institutions and universities, and advanced-level PhD students.

Lectures will be combined with a conference. We welcome paper submissions on topics which overlaps with lecture’s topic i.e., international trade, including the roles of firm heterogeneity, multinational corporations, and global supply chains. Acceptance decision will be made by a joint committee consisting of representatives of the central banks of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Please note that attending lectures and paper presentations are mutually exclusive i.e. lecture attendees do not necessarily have to present paper, and vice versa.

Details of the lecture and the conference are as follows:

• • Lecture: May 17, 2023 (4 hours) and May 18, 2023 (4 hours)
  • Conference: May 19, 2023

There are no registration fees for lectures or conference. Lunch and dinner costs are covered by organizers. Traveling and accommodation costs are not covered.

Submissions: Please send your submissions by March 1, 2023 to Ms. Laima Štulaitė (LStulaite@lb.lt).

• • If you are applying for lectures, please attach your CV.
  • If you are applying for the conference, please attach your paper.
  • If you want to attend both, please attach both CV and paper, and mention it clearly in your email.

Acceptance decisions will be sent by March 15, 2023.
Event location: The event will be in the beautiful old town of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. More information here: https://www.govilnius.lt/visit-vilnius

We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminars and are delighted to welcome Maryna Tverdostup (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies University of Tartu). Maryna is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) and research fellow at University of Tartu. She holds a PhD in economics from University of Tartu and had her postdoc at the University of Innsbruck. She is a laureate of the 2022 Schumpeter Young Economist Award.  Maryna is a labour economist with a focus on gender inequalities, labour mobility and immigrants’ integration. She has published in journals such as American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and International Journal of Manpower.

Speaker: Maryna Tverdostup (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies University of Tartu).

More about the speaker: https://wiiw.ac.at/maryna-tverdostup-s-1587.html

Title: Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income Within Households (with Natalia Zinovyeva ).

Date: Thursday, December 1

Time: 16:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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Meeting ID: 862 3223 7906
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We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminars and are delighted to welcome Boris Ginzburg (University Carlos III de Madrid). Boris is an associate professor of economics and, from 2023, a Ramón y Cajal researcher, at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He holds a PhD from the University College London. Boris does theoretical and experimental research on political economy – in particular, on voting, collective action, and on the role of bounded rationality and social preferences. His work has been published in journals such as the Economic Journal and the Journal of Public Economics.

Speaker: Boris Ginzburg (University Carlos III de Madrid)

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

Title: Flooding the Zone? Troll Farms and Voter Disinformation (with Philipp Denter).

Date: Thursday, November 3

Time: 17:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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We are pleased to invite you to the next Baltic Economic Association Online Research Seminars and are delighted to welcome Nicholas Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal and Católica-Lisbon). Nicholas is a Research Economist at the Bank of Portugal and a member of the Business and Economics Research Unit at Católica-Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Economics from New York University and undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Melbourne. His research is in macroeconomics and international trade, and focuses on the importance of firms for understanding aggregate outcomes. He has worked on topics including the origins of uncertainty, long run trends in entrepreneurship, exporter dynamics and the gains from international trade.  His papers have been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics and European Economic Review.

Speaker: Nicholas Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal and Católica-Lisbon). 

More about the speaker: https://nicjkoz.com

Title: Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics (with Spencer Lyon)

Date: Thursday, October 13

Time: 16:00 Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn

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