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No. 84                 Quarterly Publication of EACES             December 2017

In this issue:

1. OFFICIAL NEWS

  1.1 Message from the President

  1.2 Report of the Leeds Festival

2. DOCTORAL AWARD

3. CALL FOR PAPERS

1. OFFICIAL NEWS

1.1 Message from the President

Dear EACES members,

I am happy to announce that in this issue of the EACES Newsletter you will find the Call for papers for the next, biennial EACES conference, which will be held in Warsaw, Poland, 6-8 September, 2018. The respected Warsaw School of Economics will host the conference. We are happy, that our next biennial conference will take place in this lovely city of special meaning for comparative economists from all over Europe and the world due to its important role during both the planned economy and transition period. And of course, we must note the special importance of Poland in todays’ European and world economics, politics and academia. Our goal is to make this an excellent occasion for scholars and students of comparative economics to meet and discuss various topics related to this research field. New developments in the world economy and in Europe provide ample opportunities to raise and analyse new questions in our research area. While there is a main topic chosen for the Warsaw event, the conference organisers, as always, are open to submissions from related disciplines and to any comparative economics related topic as well. So please do not hesitate to submit your proposals for papers and panels even if they are not linked directly with the main topic of the biennial conference. An important deadline is the 15th of March, 2018, when submissions must reach the organisers through the website of the conference (www.eacesconference.eu). The conference will host a “Meet the editors” session, where representatives of journals dealing with comparative economics issues will be present, including the journal of the association: the European Journal of Comparative Economics. In the meantime, I would like to remind all of you that EACES offers financial means for supporting other events, conferences, workshops as well, which proved to be a very fruitful and successful initiative in the past – and will hopefully remain so in the future.

Magdolna Sass

EACES President

1.1 Report of the Leeds Festival

The Leeds Festival of Economics, Democracy and the Workplace took place on 4 and 5 May 2017 at Horizon Leeds and was organised by the WPART project (a two-year research project conducted by Dr. Gabriel Burdin and Professor Virginie Pérotin (University of Leeds), and funded by a European Commission Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship).

The festival brought together leading academic scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, and members of the general public interested in different forms of workplace democracy, such as co-operatives, employee-owned firms, worker directors and other employee voice mechanisms. Some 70 delegates from the UK, Europe (Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain) and the US participated in the event.

The event received support from the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and other institutions, such as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie scheme, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, and the Royal Economic Society.

The list of papers presented at the academic workshop can be found here. A brief summary of the main discussions and keynotes can be found here.

2. DOCTORAL AWARD

EACES Award 2018

The best doctoral dissertation in comparative economic systems

The European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) invites proposals forthe EACES Award 2018 for the best doctoral dissertation in the fields of comparative economics. The winner will receive a prize of Euro 1500.

The award will be given to the work that in the opinion of the jury has the greatest potential to impact the field of comparative economic studies in the future. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are appropriate. They may investigate any area covered by the research sponsored by EACES including comparative analysis of different economic systems and institutions and their evolution.

It is a condition of the award that the winner presents her or his work in the form of a short lecture to the plenary session of the 15th EACES conference to be held in Warsaw, Poland, 6-8 September 2018. (Travel costs are to be covered by the Euro 1500 award). The winner will be notified no later than June 30, 2018.

Submissions

To be eligible for the EACES award 2018, the doctoral dissertation must have been accepted for the degree of PhD (or equivalent in continental Europe) between January 2016 and December 2017. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2018. Applications should be sent by e-mail to the address given below and include

·         A CV in English;

·         An abstract in English of no more than15pages (1.5-spaced,incl.exhibits);

·         The full text of the dissertation.

Furthermore, applicants must arrange for a

·         Nomination letter by one of the supervisors/examiners of the thesis.

The nomination letter has to specify when and where the dissertation has been accepted and must be sent directly from the supervisor/examiner.

Applications and nomination letters have to be sent via e-mail as pdf documents to the vice president of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), Jürgen Jerger (University of Regensburg), e-mail: j.jerger@ur.de

Submission hints

Applicants are asked to make sure that the abstract specifies
(i) the theoretical or empirical literature to which the thesis is contributing;
(ii) the main contribution made;
(iii) details of the methodology and, if applicable, data set(s) employed;
(iv) the publications or status of submission of parts of the dissertation, if any;
(v) the person that has been asked to send the nomination letter mentioned above.

Past winners and their dissertations:

2016: Thomas Lambert (Joint PhD from UC Louvain and Université Lille 2) Essays on the Political Economy of Finance

2014: Gabriel Burdín (PhD from the University of Siena) Essays on Worker-Managed Firms

2012: Bjoern Jindra (PhD from the University of Sussex) Internationalisation Theory and Technological Accumulation. Investigation of Multinational Affiliates in East Germany

2010: Roman Horváth (PhD from Charles University Prague) Empirical Essays on Monetary Economics

2008: Sanjaya Acharya (PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam) Pro-poor Growth and Liberalisation: CGE Policy Modelling for Nepal

2006: Bruno Merleverde (PhD from University of Gent) The Effects of Economic Reform and Foreign Direct Investment on the Domestic Economy and the Domestic Companies of Central and Eastern European Transition Countries

2004: Balazs Egert (PhD from Université de Paris X – Nanterre) Le taux de change réeldans la transition des pays d’Europecentrale et orientale; Aspects théoriques et empiriques

2002: Daniel Piazolo (PhD from University of Kiel)The Integration Process between Eastern and Western Europe

2000: Katharina Mueller (PhD from University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder) The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Central-Eastern Europe

1998: Klaus Meyer (PhD from London Business School) Determinants of Direct Foreign Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

1996: Bert van Selm (PhD from University of Groningen) The Economics of Soviet Break-up

1994: Wim Swaan (PhD from University of Amsterdam) Behaviour and Institutions under Economic Reform. Price Regulation and Market Behaviour in Hungary

3. CALL FOR PAPERS

3.1 EACES 15^th Biennial Conference

15^th European Association for Comparative Economic Studies Conference

Warsaw, Poland 6-8 September 2018

The 15^thBiannual Conference of EACES will be held in Warsaw, Poland, on 6-8 September 2018, hosted by the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa). To guide prospective authors and participants, the conference theme is:

“Post-Transition and Emerging Economies ten years after the Financial Crisis: Policies, Response, Performance and Challenges”

The impact of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on post-transition and emerging economies has varied tremendously. Some economies experienced very large recessionary shocks with long-lasting effects for the labour market, human capital formation and growth. For others policy and economic structure alleviated potential negative effects. Importantly for some countries, the Great Recession also slowed or postponed systemic reform efforts. Understanding the differential impact and means of diffusing the negative consequences is important for scholars and policy makers. Hence, it strikes us as important to take stock of the performance and policy reactions of post-transition and emerging economies, broadly defined, nearly ten years after the Great Recession. Additionally, challenges to globalization and the environment remain while new challenges to international economic and security institutions arise.  A comparative perspective is essential to understand how workers, firms and governments adjusted to the economic shocks that occurred, challenges that remain and new challenges that lie ahead.  A systemic approach provides essential perspective as individual economies had made varying degrees of progress in the transition process and will be differentially affected by challenges on the horizon.

The scientific committee invites proposals for papers (abstracts up to 250 words) and panels (session topic and abstracts for 3-5 papers), reflecting current and ongoing research on any facet of the broad theme above. However, topics of inquiry and presentations at the conference will not be limited, and we encourage proposals for papers and panels of papers on any theme of comparative economics including socio-economic, sociological, historical and political topics. Therefore work from cognate disciplines and methods are also welcome. Proposals can be uploaded via our conference website www.eacesconference.eu. The deadline for abstract and panel submission is 15^th of March, 2018.

Confirmed plenary speakers include Professor Stanisław Gomułka, for many years Reader of Economics at the London School of Economics, one of the most accomplished consultants to various Polish post-Communist governments, and leading the effort to design a coherent reform policy after the collapse of Communism.  Professor Domenico Mario Nuti is among the leading researchers of comparative economics, at present professor emeritus at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He was advisor to various international organizations and governments in the East Central and Eastern European region and is the author of numerous publications on comparative economic systems.

The conference will host a “Meet the editors” session, where representatives of journals dealing with comparative economics issues will be present, including the journal of the association: European Journal of Comparative Economics.

3.2 Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe

The Joint IOS/APB/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe

The Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe was established by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg) in 2009, to bring together mainly Ph.D. students and Postdocs in a workshop atmosphere. Since 2011, EACES has joined in the organization of the Summer Academy. Over these past years, the Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe has developed into a prime early career event within comparative economics, arguably outstanding among those under the auspices of EACES. For more info see below and http://www.ios-regensburg.de/en/events/summer-academy.html

Recent developments

An increasing number of applicants compete for between 12 and 15 participant spots, with recent admission rates below 25 per cent.

An outstanding list of keynote lecturers by now includes Michael V. Alexeev (Indiana University), Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick), Sumon K. Bhaumik (University of Sheffield), Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics), Christian, Dustmann (University College London), Alexander Danzer (University of Eichstätt), Ira Gang (Rutgers University), Michael Gebel (University of Bamberg), Karl. F. Habermeier (IMF), Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen), Rainer Martin (ECB), Mieke Meurs (American University), Cristiano Perugini (University of Perugia), Alexander Plekhanov (EBRD), to name but a few.

Recent presentations are to be found in leading working paper series, such as:

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, Bohdan Kukharskyy, and Gerard Roland, Culture and global sourcing. NBER Working Paper No. 21198, May 2015

Selected publications, growing out of participants’ presentations, include (in alphabetical order):

Ahlborn, Markus, Joachim Ahrens, and Rainer Schweickert, Large-scale transition of economic systems – Do CEECs converge toward western prototypes? Comparative Economic Studies 58(3), 2016

Bartolini, Stefano, and Francesco Sarracino, The dark side of Chinese growth: Declining social capital and well-being in times of economic boom. World Development 74, 2015

Braun, Sebastian, and Michael Kvasnicka, Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany. Journal of International Economics 93(2), 2014

Florian Freund, Reciprocal tariff reductions under asymmetric bargaining power. The World Economy 40(5), 2017

Gebremedhin, Tesfaye A., and Astghik Mavisakalyan, Immigration and political instability. Kyklos 66 (3), 2013

Kozlov, Vladimir, and Alexander Libman, The legacy of compliant activism in autocracies: Post-Communist experience. Contemporary Politics 23(2), 2017

Kreickemeier, Udo, and Jens Wrona, Two-way migration between similar countries. The World Economy 40(1), 2017

Lehmer, Florian, and Johannes Ludsteck, Wage assimilation of foreigners. Which factors close the gap? Evidence from Germany. Review of Income and Wealth 61(4), 2015

Nikolaev, Boris, and Milena Nikolova,. Does joining the EU make you happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania. Forthcoming in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Olekseyuk, Zoryna, and Edward J. Balistreri, Trade liberalization gains under different trade theories: A case study for Ukraine. Forthcoming in Empirica. Journal of European Economics

Otrachshenko, Vladimir, and Olga Popova, Life (dis)satisfaction and the intention to migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 48(C), 2014

Roccisano, Federica, On intergenerational mobility in Italy: What a difficult future for the young. Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 6(2), 2013.

4. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE

5. RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF JOURNALS

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Web page: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621171/description

Vol. 41 (4) 2017

Symposium: Labour share dynamics in a comparative perspective

Contents:

Editorial note: Symposium: Labour share dynamics in a comparative perspective

Page 471

Cristiano Perugini, Francesco Venturini

Can the HOS model explain changes in labor shares? A tale of trade and wage rigidities

Pages 472-491

Bruno Decreuse, Paul Maarek

Labor market rigidity, social policies and the labor share: Empirical evidence before and after the big crisis

Pages 492-512

Maria Laura Parisi

Road infrastructure and the share of labor income: Evidence from China’s manufacturing sector

Pages 513-523

Xun Zhang, Guanghua Wan, Xu Wang

Globalisation and the decline of the labour share: A microeconomic perspective

Pages 524-536

Cristiano Perugini, Michela Vecchi, Francesco Venturini

Are some owners better than others in Czech privatized firms? Even meta-analysis can’t make us perfectly sure

Pages 537-568

Ichiro Iwasaki, Evžen Kočenda

Determinants of firm performance and growth during economic recession: The case of Central and Eastern European countries

Pages 569-590

Anže Burger, Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc, Matija Rojec

Do liquidation trustee characteristics matter for firm liquidation outcomes? Evidence from Slovenia

Pages 591-609

Jaka Cepec, Peter Grajzl, Katarina Zajc

Who leaves and when? Selective outmigration of immigrants from Germany

Pages 610-621

Torben Kuhlenkasper, Max Friedrich Steinhardt

Can corruption really function as “protection money” and “grease money”? Evidence from Chinese firms

Pages 622-638

Gang Xu, Dongyang Zhang, Go Yano

Exchange rate and macroeconomic adjustment in southern eurozone countries

Pages 639-650

José García-Solanes, Fernando Torrejón-Flores, Irene Ródenas-Monedero

Government size, public governance and private investment: The case of Vietnamese provinces

Pages 651-666

Thanh Dinh Su, Thi Mai Hoai Bui

What tax experts in former socialist countries think about tax policy: The cases of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pages 667-693

Helena Blažić, Ana Štambuk, Hrvoje Šimović, Lejla Lazović-Pita, Maja Klun

Comparative Economic Studies

Web page: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ces/index.html

Volume 59, Issue 4, 2017

CASE 25th Anniversary Symposium on the Future of Europe

Contents:

CASE 25th Anniversary Symposium on the Future of Europe

Pages 429-432

Christopher A. Hartwell

The Evolving Architecture of Europe: Functioning or Dysfunctional for the Twenty-First Century?

433-471

Paul Hare, Richard Stoneman

The Forward-Discount Puzzle in Central and Eastern Europe

472-497

Rob Hayward, Jens Hölscher

The Choice of Reforms and Economic System in the Baltic States

498-519

Karsten Staehr

Phoenix from the Ashes: The Recovery of the Baltics from the 2008/2009 Crisis

520-544

Bas B. Bakker, Marta Korczak

Sensitivity of Interest Rates to Inflation and Exchange Rate in Poland: Implications for Direct Inflation Targeting

Pages 545-560

Lucjan T. Orlowski

Reading the Footprints: How Foreign Investors Shape Countries’ Participation in Global Value Chains

Pages 561-584

Christian Buelens, Marcel Tirpák

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

Web page: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/index.html

      Volume 29, Issue 5, 2017

Special Section "Violence against Children - with reference to Sub-Saharan Africa"

Contents:

Introduction

Violence Against Children: A Critical Issue for Development

Pages: 945-963

Anke Hoeffler

Special Issue Articles

A Qualitative Study of Mechanisms Underlying Effects of a Parenting Intervention in Rural Liberia

Pages: 964-982

Ali Giusto, Elsa Friis, Amanda L. Sim, Rhea M. Chase, John O. Zayzay, Eric Green, Eve Puffer

Implementing Parenting Programmes Across Cultural Contexts: A Perspective on the Deficit Narrative

Pages: 983-998

Ruben Esch, Mariëtte Haan

How Mothers in Poverty Explain Their Use of Corporal Punishment: A Qualitative Study in Kampala, Uganda

Pages: 999-1016

Nicola Boydell, Winifred Nalukenge, Godfrey Siu, Janet Seeley, Daniel Wight

Men’s Involvement in a Parenting Programme to Reduce Child Maltreatment and Gender-Based Violence: Formative Evaluation in Uganda

Pages: 1017-1037

Godfrey E. Siu, Daniel Wight, Janet Seeley, Carolyn Namutebi, Richard Sekiwunga, Flavia Zalwango, Sarah Kasule

Protecting Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries from Abuse and Neglect: Critical Challenges for Successful Implementation of Parenting Programmes

Pages: 1038-1052

Anilena Mejia, Divna Haslam, Matthew R. Sanders, Nicole Penman

Original Articles

Using Rasch Measurement to Evaluate a Perceived Improvement in Access to Financial Asset Scale in Rural Lao PDR

Pages: 1053-1069

Jo Durham, Keith Rickart

Recasting the ‘New Actors in Development’ Research Agenda

Pages: 1070-1085

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Erik Lundsgaarde, Signe Cold-Ravnkilde

International Perceptions of South Korea as Development Partner: Attractions and Strategic Implications

Pages: 1086-1101

Sung-Mi Kim

Value Chain Upgrading and the Inclusion of Smallholders in Markets: Reflections on Contributions of Multi-Stakeholder Processes in Dairy Development in Tanzania

Pages: 1102-1121

Catherine Kilelu, Laurens Klerkx, Amos Omore, Isabelle Baltenweck, Cees Leeuwis, Julius Githinji

Book Reviews

Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda

Pages: 1122-1124

Ben Jones

Responsibility in an Interconnected World: International Assistance, Duty, and Action (Studies in Global Justice, Series Editor: Deen K. Murphy), by Susan P. Murphy, 2016

Pages: 1125-1127

Nita Mishra

ECONOMIC ANNALS

Web page: http://www.ekof.bg.ac.rs/publikacije/casopisi/ekonomski-anali/

Vol. LXII, No. 214, 2017

Contents

Political Economy of Misusing Income Distribution in the Electoral Process – Biased Pluralism Approach
Pages: 7-44
Aleksandra Praščević

Do Dividend Shocks Affect Excess Returns: An Experimental Study
Pages: 45-86
Dragana Draganac

Are the Unemployed and Inactive Financially Trapped: Evidence from Serbia
Pages: 87-106
Aleksandra Anić, Gorana Krstić

Factor Analysis of Key Indicators of Rural Development: Serbia Vs Eu-28
Pages: 107-120
Stanislav Zekić, Žana Kleut, Bojan Matkovski

Characteristics of Supply Chain Risk Management Culture in the Republic of Serbia
Pages: 121-138
Aleksandra Andjelković

6. EACES OFFICIALS

Members of the Advisory Board 

Honorary Members:

Ex – Officio Member

Editorial:

This 84^th issue of the EACES newsletter begins with presidential message orients the readers to the Call for papers for the next biennial EACES conference that will be held in Warsaw, Poland, 6-8 September, 2018. The cherished Warsaw School of Economics is hosting the conference. EACES members have the opportunity of visiting this lovely city of special importance for comparative economists from all over Europe and the world due to its unique role during both the planned economy and transition economy. The significance has spread in European and world economics, politics and academia. Scholars and students of comparative economics will enjoy the special occasion to meet and discuss various topics on the economics of transition, new developments in the world economy and in Europe. Furthermore, the conference organisers, as always, are open to submissions from related disciplines and to any dimension of comparative economics. Therefore, scholars will submit their proposals for papers and panels even if they are not linked directly with the main topic of the biennial conference. The deadline for proposal/abstract submission is the 15th of March, 2018; the submissions are suggested through the website of the conference (www.eacesconference.eu). This conference website will timely keep on updating the information regarding the conference.

Announcement for the EACES Doctoral Award Competition is inclusive in Section 2 of this newsletter. This section has mentioned about the submission criteria, required documents, deadline, and the list of the past winners. Doctoral graduates in the field of comparative economics for the last two years are encouraged to apply for this biennial prestigious award in the field of comparative economics.

Section 3 of this newsletter explicitly presents the call for papers for the 15^th biennial conference. The theme of the conference will be Post-Transition and Emerging Economies Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: Policies, Response, Performance and Challenges. The scientific committee invites proposals for papers (abstracts up to 250 words) and panels (session topic and abstracts for 3-5 papers), reflecting current and ongoing research on any facet of the broad theme above. However, topics of inquiry and presentations at the conference will not be limited, and the committee encourages proposals for papers and panels of papers on any theme of comparative economics including socio-economic, sociological, historical and political topics. Therefore, work from cognate disciplines and methods are also welcome. Likewise, this Section 3 also invites papers for 10^th Joint IOS/ABP/ECES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe to be held at IOS-Regensburg in 11-13 June 2018.

A reminder of the conference on The Changing Role of the State in the Economy to be held in the School of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest on 18^th February 2018 is the subject matter of Section 4. The conference will be a significant event as it will honour the ninetieth birthday of Janos Kornai on one hand and the thematic discussion of his research on the changing role of the state will be the major agenda of discussion in the conference on the other.

Section 5 provides information regarding recent publications some journals associated with comparative economic studies, more specifically that of Economic Systems, Comparative Economic Studies, European Journal of Development Research, and Economic Annals.

We welcome any comment/suggestion for the improvement of the newsletter. The submissions are requested to deliver in the form of (preferably) electronic copy or hard copy of the Microsoft Word file to the editor:

Sanjaya Acharya

E-mail: sanjaya.acharya@gmail.com

December 2017