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Seminars, workshops and mini-courses held in 2009

In 2009 BEROC has organized a series of seminars and workshops (both in Minsk and in Kiev) for graduate students and professors of Belarusian universities and economists from other research institutions.

September 28-October 2, 2009, BSU, Minsk.
Mini-course of Valentin Zelenyuk (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Advanced Production Theory and Applications. Part 2".
September 21-25, 2009, GSTU, Gomel.
Mini-course of Elena Besedina (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Introductory Econometrics".
Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) has held a 3-day workshop “Writing Academic Research Papers and Proposals in Economics” on July 6-8, 2009 in Minsk at the Minsk International Education Center (IBB) (11 Gazeta Pravda Ave.). Lecturer – Tom Coupe (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine).
  • July 6, 2009
    17:00-20:00
    Day 1 – lecture covering:
    • How to find good ideas
    • How to motivate an academic paper
    • How to write a good literature review
    • Some hints for empirical work
    • How to write a referee a paper
    • How to present a paper
    • How, when and where to submit a paper
  • July 7, 2009
    10:00-12:00
    Day 2 – lecture on how to write a successful research grant proposal
  • July 8, 2009
    10:00-12:00
    Day 3 – presentations by participants of their own research
Working language – English.
 
May 25-29, 2009, BSEU, Minsk.
Mini-course of Valentin Zelenyuk (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Macroeconomics for Business".
  • 1. Introduction: How Macroeconomics Can Help in Business Decisions?
  • 2. Production, Income, and Employment.
  • 3. The Monetary System, Prices, and Inflation.
  • 4. The Classical Long-Run Model.
  • 5. Economic Growth and Rising Living Standards.
  • 6. Economic Fluctuations.
  • 7. The Short-Run Macro Model.
  • 8. The Banking System and the Money Supply.
  • 9. The Money Market and the Interest Rate.
  • 10. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply.
  • 11. Inflation and Monetary Policy.
  • 12. Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Spending, and the Federal Budget.
  • 13. Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy.
  • 14. Using Macroeconomics in Investments in Stock Market and Bond Market.
May 4-15, 2009, IBB, Minsk.
Workshop of Aliaksandr Amialchuk (The University of Toledo, USA) "Econometric methods with applications in Labor and Population Economics".
  • Lecture 1. Introduction and review of OLS. Cases when the OLS estimator is inconsistent.
  • Lecture 2. Panel data models (fixed effects, first differencing, random effects).
  • Lecture 3. Discrete response models and duration analysis (LPM, logit, probit, hazard models).
  • Lecture 4. The Evaluation Problem in Social Sciences.
  • Lecture 5. Randomized Experiments.
  • Lecture 6. Controlling for Confounding Variables (matching on covariates, propensity score matching, twin and sibling studies).
  • Lecture 7. Difference-in-Differences Estimation.
  • Lecture 8. Instrumental Variables Strategy.
  • Lecture 9. Regression Discontinuity Design.
  • Lecture 10. Research in Labor and Population Economics on Belarus: available literature, topics for future research. Examination.
April 27-30, 2009, KSE, Kiev. 10:00 - 13:00.
Seminar of Igor Livshits (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) "Macroeconomics and Growth".
  • Growth Accounting.
  • Neoclassical growth model.
  • Needed: The Theory of TFP.
  • Barriers to Technology Adoption.
  • Appropriate Technologies.
  • Human Capital.
  • Puzzles:
    • Capital outflow during growth.
    • How important is Finance?
April 20-24, 2009, BSUIR, Minsk.
Mini-course of Valentin Zelenyuk (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Advanced Production Theory and Applications. Part 1".
  • 1. Neo-Classical Production Theory: Shephard's Axiomatic Approach.
  • 2. Efficiency Measurement and Duality in Economics.
  • 3. Data Envelopment Analysis.
  • 4. Basics of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA).
  • 5. Index Numbers Theory and Application.
April 21-23, 2009, IBB, Minsk. 18:00 - 21:00.
Workshop of Alina Verashchagina (The University of Siena, Italy) "The Impact of the Economic Transition on Education, Wages, and Labour Supply".
  • Returns to education and human capital accumulation.
  • Education and socioeconomic mobility.
  • Wages and the gender pay gap.
  • Labour supply and economic incentives.
April 15-17, 2009, GrSU, Grodno.
Mini-course of Valentin Zelenyuk (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Macroeconomics for Business".
  • 1. Introduction: How Macroeconomics Can Help in Business Decisions?
  • 2. Production, Income, and Employment.
  • 3. The Monetary System, Prices, and Inflation.
  • 4. The Classical Long-Run Model.
  • 5. Economic Growth and Rising Living Standards.
  • 6. Economic Fluctuations.
  • 7. The Short-Run Macro Model.
  • 8. The Banking System and the Money Supply.
  • 9. The Money Market and the Interest Rate.
  • 10. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply.
  • 11. Inflation and Monetary Policy.
  • 12. Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Spending, and the Federal Budget.
  • 13. Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy.
  • 14. Using Macroeconomics in Investments in Stock Market and Bond Market.
March 9-13, 2009, BSU, Minsk.
Mini-course of Valentin Zelenyuk (The Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) "Advanced Production Theory and Applications. Part 1".
  • 1. Neo-Classical Production Theory: Shephard's Axiomatic Approach.
  • 2. Efficiency Measurement and Duality in Economics.
  • 3. Data Envelopment Analysis.
  • 4. Basics of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA).
  • 5. Index Numbers Theory and Application.

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