Conference

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)

Students and Teaching Conference

“REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT – SMALL PIECES OF A BIG SUCCESS”
to be held on April 9-10, 2011 in Kyiv

Application deadline: March 1, 2011 at conference@kse.org.ua

For students:

We are looking for essays and research papers from students that use statistics or econometrics and rely on economic models, theory or economic reasoning to analyze various issues of regional economic development in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, including but not limited to:

• Regional variation in economic development
• Regional economic impact of the business start-ups and closures
• Commuting patterns, internal migration dynamics, human capital and economic development
• The rationale for regional labor cost differentials
• Quality of local public services and its impact on economic development
• Transportation, communication, electricity, water, waste disposal, sewage and land use in economic development
• Tourism-based local economic development: success-determining factors
• Parks, affordable housing, crime prevention, and other residential amenities as drivers of local development
• Natural resources and environment in economic development

Both essays and research papers should be based either upon original research done by a student or inspired by appropriately acknowledged work of other researchers with additional analysis conducted by the student.

The winners in each category will be awarded with monetary prizes:
$200 – first prize, $100 – second prize

Students’ works should be written in English.

Please read special requirements for essays

Please read special requirements for  research papers

For Instructors:

Additionally, we will organize a “Teaching Section” to bring together instructors (ranked from Aspirants to Professors) of any economic courses at universities in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova and share teaching and classroom experience. Here at KSE we believe that bringing real-life cases into classroom greatly enhances students’ comprehension of various economic concepts. Many of our partners from other universities share the same opinion. For this section, we invite submissions from instructors who creatively use local development projects as case-studies or other educational tools in their teaching of economic disciplines. Instructors’ submissions may be written either in English or Ukrainian/Russian. Please read special requirements for Instructors’ applications.

All interested applicants should submit their essays, papers (for students) and presentations (for instructors) with a completed application form with indicating the category (essay, research paper or presentation) by March 1, 2011 at conference@kse.org.ua.

All applicants will be notified about the results of selection by March 22, 2011. The selection will be made by a committee consisting of the KSE faculty members. The successful applicants will be offered to present their work at the KSE Students and Teaching Outreach Conference on April 9-10, 2011.

Travel, accommodation, and food expenses of the KSE Students and Teaching Conference conference participants will be reimbursed by KSE.

For questions:38-044-492 8012 (ext. 119), conference@kse.org.ua.

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Past Student Conferences:

“Energy Dependence and The Impact of the Gas Price Changes on the Ukrainian /Belarusian/Moldovan Economy”

April 10, 2010
Economic Advice to the New President

December 5, 2009
Ukraine (Belarus, Moldova) and the Crisis - Causes and Consequences

March 30, 2009
The World Economic and Financial Crisis: What Can We Learn?

April 10, 2008
Evidence Based Decision Making-Applying Economics to Real Life

February 15-16, 2007
The Economics of Transition: Evidence from Ukraine and the Surrounding Countries (photo gallery)

April 26, 2006
Economics of the Firm

November 12, 2004
Economic Power and Economic Performance
Keynote Speaker: Edilberto Segura, Director of the Kyiv Office "SigmaBleyzer"

2003
Ukrainian Transition Economy on the Road to Europe
Keynote Speaker: Borys Tarasiuk, Head of the Committee on European Integration (Parliament of Ukraine)

2002
The Economic Transition of Ukraine

2001
Property Rights In Transition Economies 

2000
Crossborder Capital Flows in Transition Economies

1999
The Costs to Development of Quotas, Tariffs, Taxes and Licenses

1998
Internet Resources For Economics Education And Research

1997
The Economic Theory of Market Distortions of the Shadow Economy