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Stockholm University
The Center for Eastern and Central European Cooperation in Institutional Development
(CECID)
in cooperation with
St. Petersburg State University
The School of Management
3rd International Conference on “Public Sector
Transition”
in St. Petersburg
2-3 June 2000
with key-note speeches by
Ms Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Auditor General of Sweden ,
Professor Martin Paldam, Aarhus University, Denmark,
&
Ms Bella Illyinichna Zlatkis, Head of the Securities Department of the
Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
The Conference is financed by Sida- the Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency – in the framework of the project “Establishing an Association for Studies in
Public Economics in Russia” which is managed by CECID AB, Stockholm University and done
in cooperation with different Russian partners.
Preliminary Programme (prefinal version 18/5-2000)
- Thursday 1 June Arrivals to St. Petersburg. Check in at hotel “Tavricheskaya”,
Shpalernaya ulitsa, 55, Tel. + 7 812 276 16 32.
17.00-19.00 Registration of participants living at the hotel .
17.30-19.00 Welcome cocktail in the hotel lobby.
7.00-8.20 Breakfast at hotel.
8.20 Bus transfer from hotel to venue: Main Building of St. Petersburg State
University, Univesitetskaya naberezhnaya 9/7.
8.00-9.00 Registration of participants at venue. Coffee is served.
9.00 – 9.15 Session 1 Petrovskii zal
Session 1 Opening of Conference
Dr Igor Murin, First Vice Rector, St.Petersburg State University
Dr Yuri Fedotov, Vice Rector for International Affairs,
St.Petersburg State University
Dr Carol Scott Leonard, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Dr Valerii Katkalo, Dean of the School of Management, St Petersburg State University
Dr Susanne Oxenstierna, Project Leader, CECID AB, Stockholm University
9.15- 9.20 Practical information.
9.25-10.55 Sessions 2a, 2b,2c
If there are several parallel sessions, session “a” is the one where simultaneous
translation Russian/English is provided. Sessions “b” and “c” are Russian speaking
only. Session “a” is given in “Petrovskii zal”, “b” and “c” in adjoining
rooms.
Session 2a Privatization Issues
Chair: Nina Oding
1. Mr Pavel Kuznetsov, Deputy Director, Working Centre for Economic Reforms
under the RF Government, and Mr Alexander Muraviov, Ph.D. candidate, School of
Management, St.Petersburg State University: State Participation in Governing
Corporations with Mixed Ownership in Russia. Government Participation in Governing
of State-owned Corporations in Russia.
2. Mr Christer Ljungwall, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Gothenburg
University, Sweden: Privatisation and Economic Reforms: China Compared with Russia
3. Mr Yuri Simatchev, Assistant Director, Analytical Center of the Ministry of
the Economy of RF: Strategic Directions for Public Sector Transformation and State
Property Management in Manufacturing
Discussant: Carol Scott Leonard
Session 2b Domestic Economic Policies and Foreign Investments
Chair: Rudiger Ahrend
1. Ms Irina Merkurieva and Dr Nikolai Zenkevich,
School of Management, St. Peterburg State University: The Impact of
Government Policy on Foreign Insurance Companies Activity in Russia.
2. Ms Evgenia Kolomak, Researcher, Institute of Economics and IE SB RAS
(Novosibirsk): Subfederal Tax Exemptions and Their Impact on Investment Allocation in
Russia: An Empirical Analysis.
3. Dr Sergei Kadochnikov, Faculty of Economics, Ural
State University: The I mpact of Economic Policy on Performance of Direct
Foreign Investment in Russia.
Discussant
The I mpact of Economic Policy on Performance of Direct
Foreign Investment in Russia.
Discussant: Yurii Fedotov
Session 2c Reforms in Education and Land
Chair: Susanne Oxenstierna
1. Dr Almira Yusupova & Dr Natalia Kravtchenko,
Institute for Economics and Industrial Enterprises Organising RAS: The Russian Academy
of Science and its Adaptation to the Market
2. Professor Irina Rozhdestvenskaya, Senior Researcher, Institute for the
Economy in Transition, Moscow: Perspectives of Public and State Management in Education.
3. Dr Tatyana Vlasova, Assistant-Director-coordinator of Research
Projects, Leontief Centre: Corporations and Land Market.
Discussants: Ms Aljona Sandgren, Project Leader, CECID (papers 1-2) and
Nataliya Drozdova (paper 3).
10.55-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.00 Session 3
Session 3 Key note speech I
Chair: Susanne Oxenstierna
Ms Bella Illyinichna Zlatkis, Head of the Securities Department, Ministry of
Finance of the Russian federation: Public Debt Financing in the Russian Federation.
12.00-12.15 Break
12.15-13.45 Session 4a,4b,43c
Session 4a Equilibrium Models
Chair: Professor Sergei Pecherski, Dean of the Faculty of
Economics, European University at St.Petersburg.
1. Mr Adam Jacobsson (paper together with Dr Sten Nyberg), PhD candidate, Dept.
of Economics, Stockholm University: Conflict Economic Development and Democracy.
2. Dr Alexander Khutoretsky, Novosibirsk Institute of Economics, RAS: A Model
of Short-Term Equilibrium for the Housing Market.
3. Mr Igor Sloev, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, European University in
St Petersburg: Suboptimal Taxation in the Presence of a Budget Deficit.
Discussant: Vladimir Matveenko
Session 4b General Issues of Reform I
Chair: Carol Scott Leonard
1. Professor Vitaly Tambovtsev, M.V.Lomonosov State University, Moscow: Institutional
Markets in the Russian Transition Economy.
2. Mr Demid Golikov, Leontief Center, St. Peterburg: Playing Public Finance:
Macroeconomic Implications of the Fiscal Games
3. Mr Dmitry Syrmolotov, Economist-Researcher, Bureau of Economic Analysis: The
Experience of Economic Reforms in Argentina
Discussant: Professor Petr Grebennikov, University of Economics and Finance, St.
Petersburg
Session 4c Population and Health
Chair: Tatyana Kosmarskaya
1. Dr Gaiane Safarova, Senior Researcher, Saint-Petersburg Institute for
Economics and Mathematics, RAS: Population Ageing in Russia: Current State and Future
Trends.
2. Dr. Sc. Sergey Shishkin, Dr.Sc, Institute for the Economy in Transition,
Moscow: Strategies for Health Care Reforming.
3. Mr Igor Baranov, Deputy Dean, School of Management, St.Petersburg
State University: Contracting Out in Health Care in Russia.
Discussant: Dr Vladimir Grishanov, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for
Socio-Ecoinomic Studies of the Population, RAS.
13.45.-15.15 Lunch at restaurant Kalinka, S'ezdovskaya liniya, 9.
Tel. (812) 323 37 18. Please see map how to get there by foot.
All joint afternoon sessions in Petrovskii zal
15.15-16.00 Session 5
Session 5 Key note speech II
Chair: Susanne Oxenstierna
Ms Inga Britt Ahlenius, Auditor General of Sweden, Head of the Swedish National
Audit Office: Transparency and Auditing. Preconditions for an Efficiently Functioning
Public Sector.
16.00-16.15 Coffee Break
16.15-17.45 Session 6
Session 6 General Reform Issues II
Session 6 General Reform Issues II
Chair: Inga-Britt Ahlenius
1. Dr Carol Scott Leonard, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University: Public
Financial Sector Reform in the Russian Federation: Contingencies and Costs.
2. Dr Rudiger Ahrend, Director of Macroeconomic Research, RECEP (Moscow),
DELTA (Paris), London School of Economics: Speed of Reform, Initial Conditions,
Political Orientation, or What? Explaining Russian Regions Economic Performance.
3. Dr Toomas Raus, Associate Professor, and Mr Viktor Trasberg, Lecturer,
Department of Economics University of Tartu, Estonia: The Local Budget Structure in
Estonia: In Need of Reform?
Discussant: Martin Paldam
17.45-18.00 Coffee Break
18.00-19.30 Information on the development of the initiative of establishing an Association
for Studies of Public Economics in Russia. Speakers to be announced. Information for
this meeting will be distributed to all participants in advance by the working group led
by Vladimir Matveenko. Petrovskii zal
around 19.30 Bus transfers back to hotel/Cultural event
7.00 –8.20 Breakfast at hotel
7.30-8.20 Reimbursement of travel costs at the hotel.
8.20 Bus transfer from hotel to venue.
9.00 – 9.45 Session 7 Petrovskii zal
Session 7 Key note speech III
Chair: Andrei Zaostrovtsev
Professor Martin Paldam, Aarhus University, Denmark: The Cross-country
Pattern of Corruption.
Economics,Culture and the Seesaw Dynamics.
9.45-10.00 Break
10.00-11.30 Sessions 8a, 8b, 8c
Session 8a Rent Seeking and Corruption
Session 8a Rent Seeking and Corruption
Chair: Martin Paldam
1. Dr Andrei Zaostrovtsev, Associate Professor, St.Petersburg State University
of Economic & Finance:
Creating a Rent-seeking Environment: The Case of St.Petersburg
2. Mr Constantin Sonin, Economist, Russian-European Center for Economic Policy
and New Economic School, Moscow: Corrupt Public Tenders: No Revenue, No Efficiency, No
Social Justice.
3. Professor Alexandr Vasin, M.V.Lomonosov State University, Moscow: Models
of Tax Compulsion in the Presence of Corruption.
Discussant: Professor Lev Yakobson, Head of Department, Higher School of Economics,
Moscow.
Session 8b Welfare and Social Policy
Chair: Professor Irina Eliseeva, St.Petersburg State University of Economics and
Finance,
1. Dr Tatiana Kosmarskaya, CAIS, Executive Director, Institute of the Economy in
Transition, Moscow:
Determination of Lower Frontier of Russian Middle Class Threshold trough Consumer
Disbursement Analysis
2. Dr Dilyara Ibragimova, Head of the Foundation "Consumer Sentiment
Index", Moscow:
Welfare Analysis of the Population’s Participation in Social Programs..
3. Mr Stanislav Kolenikov (paper together with Anthony Shorrocks), New Economic
School, Russian European Center for Economic Policy, Moscow: The Decomposition of
Poverty Trends in Russia and its Regions.
Discussant: Gaiane L. Safarova.
Session 8c Real Estate, Housing and Land Reform
Chair : Vladimir Grishanov
1. Dr Natalia Drozdova, School of Management, St.Petersburg State University and
Dr Nina Oding, Head of Research Department, Leontef Center, St Peterburg: Public
Real Estate Management in Russia.
2. . Dr Alexandr Vilensky, Institute for Small
Business Problems, Higher School of Economics, Moscow,
Government Purchases and Small Business.
3. Professor Oleg Dunaev, Head of Department, Uralsky State Technical
University: Restructuring of Municipal Enterprises in Housing Services.
Discussant: Tatiana Vlasova.
11.30 –12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.30 Sessions 9a and 9b
Session 9a Issues of Taxation
Session 9a Issues of Taxation
Chair: Vitalyi Tambovtsev
1. Ms Maria Baldina, ???? Title, dept.?? Novosibirsk State University, Analysis
of Tax Burden of Russian Enterprises.
2. Professor Olev Raju, University of Tartu, Estonia: Estonia's Experiment in
Abolishing Corporate Income Tax.
3. Dr Andrei Yakovlev Director of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies at
State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow: Tax Evasion by Using “Black”
Cash: Forms, Causes, Consequences.
Discussant: Andrei Zaostrovtsev
Session 9b Welfare and Social Security
Chair: Dilyara Ibragimova
1. Ms Oksana Sinyavskaya, Program Director of ”Social Policy before the XXI
Centure”, Moscow Public Science Foundation, Moscow: Employment Activity and Welfare
of Russian Pensioners in 1994-19982.
2. Dr Lyubov Khoreva and Professor Valery Gordin, Dept. of Economics and
Managment of the Social Sector, St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance: The
Role of the New Social Policy Institutions in Russia.
3. Dr Valenitina Nikolaevna Pronina, Associate Professor, Russian State
Pedagogical University, St.Petersburg,
Social Insurance and Social Benefits in Russia.
Discussant: Tatyana Kosmarskaya
13.30-15.15 Lunch at restaurant Kalinka, S'ezdovskaya liniya, 9. Tel.
(812) 323 37 18.
All joint afternoon sessions in Petrovskii zal
15.15-16.45 Sessions 10
Session 10 Labour Market
Chair: Sergei Shishkin
1. Dr Larissa Tserkasevich, Dept. of Economics and Management of the Social
Sector, St. Petersburg State University: Differential Approaches for Solving the
Problems of the Unemployed.
2. Professor Tiiu Paas, Head of the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics
and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia: Labour Market in Transition:
To Develop Active or Passive Labour Market Policy?
3. Dr Vladimir Matveenko, Associate Professor, European University at St.
Petersburg, and Mr Petr Saleviev, PhD candidate, European University at St. Petersburg: Labour
Supply in Russia. Influence of Secondary Employment Opportunities.
Discussant: Susanne Oxenstierna
16.45– 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.15 Session 11
Session 11 Regional Policies and Budget Structure
Session 11 Regional Policies and Budget Structure
Chair: Inga- Britt Ahlenius
1. Dr Nadezhda Ivanova, Associate Professor, Dept.?, Tartu University: The
Importance of Regional Development: Taxes, Government Subsidies and Support, and
Institutional Measures.
2. Dr Olga Kuznetsova, Working Center for the Economic Reform of the Government
of the RF: Economic Policy of Regional Authorties.
Discussants: Dr Evgenii Bukhvald,
Deputy Chairman Centre for Socio-Economic Studies of Federalism RAS; Rudiger Ahrend.
18.15-18.35 Session 12
Session 12 Conclusions
18.45 Bus transfer to Excursion and Conference Dinner at the House of the
Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab.,26. tel. (812) 314 09 72
19.00 Excursion at the House of the Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya
nab.,26.
tel. (812) 314 09 72
19. 30 Buffet Conference Dinner at the House of the Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya
naberezhnaya 26. Tel. (812) 314 09 72.
Welcome toast by Mr Jan Johansson, Vice Consul, Consulate General of
Sweden in St. Petersburg.
about 21.30 Bus transfer to hotel
8.00-10.00 Breakfast at hotel
Individual programmes
Departures
Author of programme: Susanne Oxenstierna
Contact telephone numbers : Susanne Oxenstierna 314 45 29 (home number in St.
Petersburg 31/5-4/6)
Igor Baranov tel. 3508157, 3508155 (office), 5330794 (home)
Kristina Demianova tel 3508155, 3508113 (travel reimburse, transfers to/from airport)
Elena Lebedkina tel. 3508155, 3508113 (hotel accommodation)
Marina Vasukova tel 3508155, 3508113 (cultural programme)
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