Stanley Fischer (Keynote lecture) "Globalization and its Challenges" (pdf, slides (ppt))

Yegor Gaidar (IET): Keynote Speaker, Round Table: Post Crisis Russia: >>> (rus)

Roundtable Participants:

Arkady Dvorkovich (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade)
Richard Ericson (Columbia)
Evgeny Gavrilenkov (Troika Dialog)
Barry W. Ickes (Penn. State and NES)
Andrei Illarionov (Economic Adviser to the President of Russia)
Oleg Viugin (Central Bank of Russia)

Conference Speakers:

Phillipe Aghion (Harvard University): "Growth, Productivity and Interdependence"

Beth Allen (University of Minnesota):"On the Game-Theoretic Foundations of DFM"

Stanislav Anatoliev (NES): "Bootstrap Inference in Multi-Period Prediction Problems"(pdf)

Erik Berglof (SITE) and Patrick Bolton: "Financial Development, Fiscal Responsibility, and Rule of Law" (pdf)

Dan Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh), Johannes Moenius and Katharina Pistor: "The impact of the quality of institutions on the flow of Complex and Simple goods across countries" (pdf)

David Brown (Heriot-Watt University): "Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Soviet Socialism and in the Russian and Ukrainian Transitions"(pdf)

Irina Denisova (CEFIR): "Staying Longer in Unemployment Registry in Russia: Lack of Education, Bad Luck or Something Else?"(pdf)

Sergei Guriev (NES) and Guido Friebel (Toulouse): "Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking"(pdf)

Galina Hale (Yale University): "Emerging Markets International Debt"(pdf),(presentation, pdf)

Daniel Hamermesh (Texas): "Using Subjective Outcomes in (labor?) Economics" (pdf)

Sergei Izmalkov (MIT): "Efficient Open Ascending Price Auctions"(pdf)

Tatiana Kirsanova (University of Exeter):"A Comparison of Personal Sector Saving Rates in the UK, US and Italy"(pdf)

Stanislav Kolenikov (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Anthony F.Shorrocks (UNU/WIDER): "Regional poverty in Russia: Is it geography or economics that Matter?"(pdf)

James Leitzel (College at the University of Chicago) and Michael Alexeev (Iindiana): "Racial Profiling"(pdf)

Hartmut Lehman (Heriot-Watt University):"Job Creation and Job Destruction in Transition: What do we know, what should we know?"(pdf)

Elena Loukoianova (IMF):" A Real Time Tax Smoothing Based Fiscal Policy Rule"(pdf)

Alexander Matros(University College London) : "Private Provision of Public Goods in the Local Interaction Model"(pdf) ( presentation, pdf)

Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) : "Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy" (pdf)

Alexei Onatski (Columbia): "Modeling Model Uncertainty"(pdf)

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University): "Recent Developments in Applied Industrial Organization" (pdf)

Anna Pavlova (MIT), S. Basak and A. Shapiro: "Offsetting the Incentives: Benefits of Benchmarking in Money Management" (pdf)

Leonid Polischuk (University of Maryland): "The Evolving Demand for Institutions in Transition Economies"(pdf)

Victor Polterovich (NES, CEMI): "Civic Culture and Economic Transition in Russia"(pdf)

Vladimir Popov (NES): "Accumulation of Foreign Exchange Reserves and Long Term Economic Growth"(paper (pdf),charts(pdf))

Andrei Rachinsky (CEFIR): "Self-enforced Corporate Governance Mechanisms: Evidence from Managerial Turnover in Russia"(pdf, presentation (ppt))

Gerard Roland, (Berkeley): "Political Economics"

Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University): "Some Comments on Game Theory, Behavioral Economics and Bounded Rationality"

Klara Sabrianova (WDI):"Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities"(pdf)

Andrei Sarichev (LSE): "Aggregate Collateral in a Dynamic Perspective"

Suzanne Scotchmer (Berkeley): "The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights"(ppt)

Andrei Simonov (The Stockholm School of Economics): "Do Investors Hedge? Stock Market Participation and Hedging" (pdf)

Judith Shapiro (NES):"Economics of Health and the Transition"

Konstantin Sonin (NES): "Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions"(pdf)

Kirill Sosunov (NES):"The Dutch Disease: a Calibration Experiment for Russia"(pdf)

Sergei Stepanov (ECARES): "Investor Protection, Going Public, and Separating Control from Cash-Flow Rights"(pdf)

David Tarr (World Bank): "Economy-Wide and Sector Impacts of Russia's Accession to the WTO"(pdf),(presentation, ppt)

Konstantin Tiurin (Indiana): "Modeling High-Frequency Dynamics of Emerging Financial Markets in a Nonstationary Environment"(pdf)

Andrew Warner (Harvard): "International Wage Determination and Globalization" (ppt)

Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University):" The Political Economy of Integration and Disintegration"(pdf)

Ksenia Yudaeva (CEFIR): "WTO Membership and Productivity (or Wages)"(pdf)

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (CEFIR): "Political Cycles in Russian Regions"(pdf)

Oleg Zamulin (NES): "Estimating Price Rigidities in the Russian Real Estate Markets"(pdf, slides(pdf))

Roundtable Participants: