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Association for Studies of Public Economics in Russia
in cooperation with
The School of Management, St. Petersburg State University
and
CECID, Stockholm University
Programme of The First Annual Meeting
and International Conference on
“Public Sector Transition”
in St. Petersburg
25–26 May 2001
with key–note speeches
by
Dr Mstislav Afanasiev,
Deputy Head of Staff of the RF Chamber of Accounts,
Dr Mikhail Dmitriev, First
Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation
and
Prof Olof Petersson,
Research Director, SNS, The Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies
The Annual Meeting and 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, Sweden.
| Thursday 24 May |
Arrivals to St. Petersburg.
Check in at hotel “Tavricheskaya”, Shpalernaya ulitsa, 55, Tel. + 7 812 276 16
32. In case you would have any problems please contact Elena Lebedkina, Tel. (+ 7 812) 350
81 55 or 350 81 60,
e–mail: elena@som.spb.ru |
| 17.00 – 19.00 |
Hotel lobby: Registration
of participants living at the hotel. |
| 19.00 – 20.30 |
Welcome cocktail in the hotel cafй |
| Friday 25 May |
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| 7.30 – 8.20 |
Breakfast at hotel |
| 8.20 |
Bus transfer from hotel to venue: Main
Building of St. Petersburg State University, Univesitetskaya naberezhnaya 9/7, 2nd
floor, Petrovsky hall. |
| 8.00 – 9.00 |
Registration of participants at venue
(including late arrivals to hotel)1 |
| 9.00 – 9.30
Session 1 |
Opening of Conference in Petrovsky hall |
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Prof Ludmila Verbitskaya,
Rector, St.Petersburg State University Prof Lev Jacobson,
Co-Chairman of ASPE, Higher School of Economics, Moscow/
Dr Valerii Katkalo, Dean of the School of Management, St Petersburg State University
Dr Susanne Oxenstierna, Project Leader, CECID AB, Stockholm University, Board Member of
ASPE
Consul Stefan Eriksson, General Consulate of Sweden in St. Petersburg |
| 9.25 – 10.15 Session 2 |
The Agenda of Democratic Reform –
The Scandinavian Experience |
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Chair: Susanne Oxenstierna |
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Key note speaker: Professor
Olof Petersson, Research Director, The Swedish Center for Business and Policy
Analysis |
| 10.15-10.45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10.45-11.30 |
The Emergence of a Public
Financial Control System in Russia |
| Session 3 |
Chair: Pavel Kuznetsov |
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Key note speaker: Dr Mstislav Afanasiev,
Deputy Head of Staff of RF Chamber of Accounts |
| 11.40– 13.10 Session 4 |
Evolution of Reform in
Russia |
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Chair: Carol Scott Leonard |
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Prof Lev Jacobson, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow State Service Reform |
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Dr Jochen Wermuth, Oxford Economic
Policy Ltd Russian Debt and Aid – Myths and Facts |
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Mr Birger Nerre, University of Hamburg,
Germany The Role of Tax Culture in Transformation Process – The Case of Russia
Discussant: Prof Sergey Vasiliev, Leontief Center, St Petersburg |
13.10-14.30 Lunch at University Cafe #8, Birzhevaya linia, 6, the building next to the
conference venue, 2nd floor
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 Petrovsky hall, “b” in room 46 and “c” in room
44.
| 14.30 – 16.00 |
Sessions 5a & 5b |
| Session 5a |
Public Choice, Economic
Institutions, and the Role of State |
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Chair: Olof Petersson |
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Ms Galyna Vereshchagina, CERGE–EI,
Prague The Role of State Sector in the Economy with Heterogeneous Agents |
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Mr Demid Golikov, Russian–European
Centre for Economic Policy, Moscow New Institutions and Economic Liberalization |
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Dr Vyacheslav Dementiev, Donetsk State
Technical University System of Power and Rent–Seeking Behavior in Transition |
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Discussant: Andrey Zaostrovtsev |
| Session 5b |
Tax Evasion |
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Chair: Lev Yakobson |
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Dr Andrei Yakolev, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Mr Pavel Kuznetsov, Working Center for Economic Reform &
RECEP, Moscow, Mr Andreuн Fominykh, Working Center for Economic Reform &
RECEP, Moscow, Tax Administration of Informal Business Groups in The Russian
Economy |
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Mr Vitaliy Pruzhansky, Tinbergen
Institute, Holland, A Signaling Model of Tax Evasion |
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Prof Alexander Vasin, Ms Polina Vasina,
Moscow State University, Tax Optimization under Tax Evasion: The Principal
Agent-Approach |
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Discussant: Vladimir Matveenko/Carol Scott
Leonard |
| 16.00-16.20 |
Coffee Break |
| 16.20 – 17.50 |
Sessions 6a, 6b |
| Session 6a |
Land and Agricultural Reform |
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Chair: Tatiana Vlasova |
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Dr Carol Leonard, University of Oxford Financing
Agricultural Reform in Transition, 1992–2001 |
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Dr Oksana Lylova, Institute for Social
and Economic Studies of Population RAS, Moscow Agricultural Reform and
Transformation of Agricultural Enterprises |
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Prof. Nadezhda Pakhomova, St.
Petersburg State University Reform of Property Rights for Natural Resources in
Russia: Institutional Approach |
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Dr Nina Oding, Leontief Centre,
St.Petersburg Land Reform in St. Petersburg |
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Discussant: Dr Natalia Drozdova, St.
Petersburg State University |
| Session 6b |
Social Policy |
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Chair: Henrik Huitfeldt |
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Dr Igor Dukov, Dr Jan Eklof, Ms
I.Selivanova, Dr Ludmila Margulets, Stockholm School of Economics in St.
Petersburg
Living Condition Index – A New Approach to Estimation of Welfare and State
Protection |
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Dr Lev Savulkin, Leontief Centre,
St.Petersburg Financing of Social Programmes in Russian Regions |
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Dr Vladimir Grishanov, Institute for
Social and Economic Studies of Population RAS, Moscow Affordability of Housing and
Utilities for the Russian Population |
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Discussant: Anderei Zaostrovtsev,
St.Petersburg University of Economics and Finance |
| 17.50 – 18.00 |
Coffee–break |
| 18.00 – 19.30 |
ASPE Annual Meeting (Petrovsky hall) Lev Yakobson Co-Chairman of ASPE
Vladimir Matveenko Co-Chairman of ASPE
The Board of ASPE |
| 19.30 |
Bus transfers back to hotel |
| 7.30 – 8.20 |
Breakfast at hotel Reimbursement
of travel costs to Russian and Estonian participants (hotel lobby) |
| 8.20 |
Bus transfer from hotel to venue |
| 9.00 – 10.30 |
Sessions 7a & 7b & 7c |
| Session 7a |
Welfare and Inequality |
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Chair: Sergey Shishkin |
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Dr Pedro Martins, University of Warwick Does
Schooling Reduce Inequality? Quantile Regression Evidence from Sixteen Countries |
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Dr Tatiana Kosteeva, St.Petersburg
State University Inequality and Poverty Determinants in Modern Russia (Household
Budgets Study in Six Russian Regions) |
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Dr Gaiane Safarova, St.Petersburg
Institute for Economics and Mathematics Status of the Family in St.Petersburg:
Demo–Economic Aspects |
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Discussant: Dr Tatiana Vlasova, Leontief
Centre, St.Petersburg |
| Session 7b |
Municipal Finance |
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Chair: Yuri Fedotov |
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Prof Alexander Vilensky, Higher School
of Economics, Moscow, Reforming Municipal Assets Management |
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Ms Ekaterina Pshennikova, St. Peterburg
State University, Interbudgetary Relations Development in Leningrad Oblast: New
Experience and Strategies |
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Mr Dmitrii Shishkin, Centre for Fiscal
Policy, Moscow, Dr Galyna Kurlyanskaya, Centre for Fiscal Policy, Moscow, Intergovernmental
Relations and Decentralisation of Public Governance in Russian Regions |
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Dr Anastasia Chanko, Dr Yuri
Fedotov, Dr Tatiana Kosteeva, St Petersburg State University, Problems
of Personnel Development for Municipalities in St Petersburg |
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Discussant: Prof Tatyana Fedorova,
St.Petersburg University of Economics and Finance |
| Session 7c |
Reforms in Health Care |
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Chair: Nikolay Raskov |
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Prof Sergey Shishkin, Institute for the
Economy in Transition, Moscow A Comparative Analysis of Public Financing Models in
Health Care Sector with Different Types of Buyers |
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Mr Igor Baranov, St.Petersburg State
University Ms Tatiana Sklyar, St.Petersburg State University
Health Care Sector Reform in St.Petersburg: New Dimensions |
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Discussant: Dr Irina Zheltyakova,
St.Petersburg University of Economics and Finance |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee–break |
| 11.00 – 11.45 |
Session 8 Key note speech III |
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Chair: Nina Oding |
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Dr Mikhail Dmitriev,
First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation |
| 11.45 – 14.00 |
Sessions 9a & 9b |
| Session 9a |
Industrial Policy, Natural
Monopolies Restructuring, and Regional Development |
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Chair: Pavel Kuznetsov |
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Mr Yuri Yegorov, Central European
University The Role of State in Electricity Reform: Creation of Competition and
Efficiency |
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Dr Elena Kalabina, Ural State
University of Economics, Ekaterinburg Restructuring of State Network Enterprise |
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Dr Yuri Simachev, RF Ministry for
Industry and Science, Moscow State Support of Industrial Enterprises, Micro-Level
Budget Constraints, and Business Reforming |
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Dr Olga Kuznetsova, Working Centre for
Economic Reforms, Moscow Free Economic Zones: Russian Experience and Case of
Kaliningrad Oblast |
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Discussants: Dr Elena Kotelkina, St.Petersburg
Division of the RF Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy (papers 1–3), Dr Carol Leonard,
University of Oxford (paper 4) |
| Session 9b |
Budget Process and Regional
Finance |
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Chair: Andrei Zaostrovtsev |
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Mr Viktor Trasberg, University of
Tartu, Estonia Do Municipalities Really Compete: Case of Estonia? |
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Dr Alexander Belyakov, Bank of Russia
Training Centre, Tver Tax Payments via "Problem" Banks: Theoretical
Aspect |
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Dr Valery Gamukin, Tumen State
University Using Budget Risks in Budget Planning |
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Dr Tatyana Lyapina, Tumen State
University Regional Financial Model as an Element of Regional Financial Policy |
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Discussant: Igor Baranov, St.Petersburg State
University |
| 14.00 – 15.15 |
Lunch at University Cafe #8, Birzhevaya
linia, 6, the building next to the conference venue, 2nd floor |
| 15.15 – 17.15 |
Session 10 |
| Session 10 |
Labour Market |
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Chair: Susanne Oxenstierna |
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Dr Henrik Huitfeldt, University of
Uppsala Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes, and Wage Determination: Evidance
from the Czech and Slovak Republics |
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Mr Maxim Bouev, University of Oxford Labour
Supply, Informal Economy and Transition in Russia |
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Mr Igor Sloev, European University at
St.Petersburg Subsidies as an Instrument of Unemployment Policy |
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Ms Ludmila Makarova, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow Labour Market Policy Towards the Groups of Population with a Low
Level of Social Protection (Case of Women Labour Force) |
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Discussant: Dr Tatiana Kosmarskaya, Higher
School of Economics, Moscow |
| 17.15 – 17.45 |
Conclusions |
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Chair: Lev Yakobson Vladmir Matveenko
Igor Baranov
Nina Oding
Pavel Kuznestov
Olof Petersson
Mstislav Afanasiev
Mikhail Dmitriev
Susanne Oxenstierna
Carol Leonard |
| 17.45 |
Bus transfer to Conference dinner |
| 18.30 |
Buffet conference dinner, Zaharievskaya
ulitsa, 31 |
| 21.00 |
Bus transfer to hotel |
Sunday
27 May |
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| 8.00 |
Breakfast at hotel Individual programmes
Departures (the latest departure time from hotel is Sunday noon) |
Contact telephone numbers :
Igor Baranov tel. 3508157, 3508155, 3508160 (office), 9420478 (mobile)
Viktoria Shlykova tel. 2751130 (travel reimburse, transfers to/from airport)
Elena Lebedkina tel. 3508155, 3508160 (hotel accommodation)
Marina Vasukova tel. 3508155, 3508113 (visa support)
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