Graduate School of Management

St. Petersburg State University

and

Association for Studies in Public Economics (ASPE)


announce the 9th International Conference




Public Sector Transition:

Improving Quality of Management



St.Petersburg

November 2-3, 2007



The conference is to be held at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University www.gsm.pu.ru


The conference traditionally covers a broad spectrum of issues related to public sector transition, including:


This conference is a continuation of the series of research seminars and conferences organized in 1995-2006. You can find detailed information about previous events at www.aspe.spb.ru.

Working languages: Russian and English. Simultaneous translation is provided.


The Seventh Annual Meeting of ASPE will be held during the conference period.



Financial support for the conference is provided by by the RF National Priority Project “Education”
in part of development of the Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University





Participation in the conference


The Organization Committee has an opportunity to give the limited number of grants. The grants cover travel and accommodation expenses of the nonresident conference participants who represent the reports and sent the full texts according to the deadlines.


Participants are expected to pay a registration fee (500 roubles). This fee may be paid during the first conference day. ASPE members should not pay registration fee if they paid their annual membership fee for year 2007 (500 roubles). Membership payment can be done either via ASPE bank account (see information at www.aspe.spb.ru) or in cash on the first day of the conference. Registration fee / ASPE membership fee covers all expenses of the copying papers for participants, coffee-breaks, lunches and reception.


Registration form and abstract of the paper (up to 500 words) should be sent to the Organization Committee by e-mail no later than October 1, 2007. You will be informed about the acceptance of your paper until October 10, 2007. The full text of accepted papers should be submitted by October 20, 2007. Selected papers will be published in the conference volume after the conference. All papers will be copied for conference participants.


Please fill out the registration from on the next page if you are interested in attending the conference.



Registration form

The conference will be held on November 2-3, 2007.


1. Name:

2. Position:

3. Affiliation:

4. Dr/Mr/Mrs:

5. E-mail:

6. Contact Phone:

7. Fax:

8. Postal address:

9. Are you a member of ASPE?

10. I would like to submit a paper (title):

11. Abstract (up to 500 words):

12. I would like to participate in the conference without submission of paper (Yes/No):


Please, email this form to the Organization committee (no later than October 1, 2007):

Ms Valentina Karysheva (Conference Secretary)
School of Management, St.Petersburg State University
E-mail: gmu@som.pu.ru
Phone +7 812 3508157
Fax +7 812 3502583
Postal Address: Dekabristov pereulok, 16, St.Petersburg, 199155 Russia