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2008: Zapechelnyuk Andriy with Alexander Matros. Optimal Fees in Internet Auctions. Forthcoming Review of Economic Design.

2008: Zapechelnyuk Andriy, Better-Reply Dynamics with Bounded Recall. Forthcoming Mathematics of Operations Research.

2008: Zapechelnyuk Andriy, with Yair Tauman. Bargaining with a Property Rights Owner. Forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.

2008: Denys Nizalov, Poverty in Michigan small communities: demand versus supply of labor. International Regional Science Review.

2007: Zapechelnyuk, Andriy, Better-Reply Strategies with Bounded Recall in Artificial Markets Modeling: Methods and Applications, ed. A. Consiglio, pp. 259-277, Springer.

2007: Oleksandr Shepotylo, Specific teriffs, tariff simplification and the structure of import tariffs in Russia: 2001-2005 with D.Tarr published in Eastern European Economics Journal.

2007: Oleksandr Shepotylo, The Impact on Russia of WTO Accession and The Doha Agenda: The Role of Liberalization of Barriers against FDI in Services for Growth and Poverty Reduction with T.Rutherford and D.Tarr published in a book "Poverty and the WTO Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda" edited by Thomas W. Hertel and L. Alan Winters.

2007: Denys Nizalov, Does Firm Size Distribution Matter? An Empirical Test of the Entrepreneurial Pipeline Hypothesis?, forthcoming in Economic Development Quarterly (With Scott Loveridge).

2007: Denys Nizalov, Increasing the Equity and Efficiency of Tax Abatement Programs in Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 37(1), pp. 10-14, 36(2) (With Scott Loveridge)

2007: Tom Coupe, The Impact of Policies on FDI flows to Transition Countries (with Irina Orlova and Sasha Skiba) forthcoming in Bob Lucas, T.N. Srinivasan and Lyn Squire, ?The Impact of Rich Countries? policies on Poverty in Poor Countries, Edward Elgar.

2007: Tom Coupe, The Visibility of Ukrainian Economists 1969-2005 forthcoming in the Journal of Socio-Economics.

2007: Valentin Zelenyuk, Measuring Potential Gains from Reallocation of Resources with Vladimir Nesterenko forthcoming in Journal of Productivity Analysis)

2007: Valentin Zelenyuk, Aggregation of the Nerlovian Profit Indicator, coauthored with Rolf F?re and Shawna Grosskopf, forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters

2007: Valentin Zelenyuk, Testing for Catching-up: Statistical Analysis of DEA Efficiency Estimates, with Daniel Henderson, Southern Economic Journal Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 1003?1019

2007: Valentin Zelenyuk, Finding Common Ground: Efficiency Indices, with Rolf F?re and Shawna Grosskopf, ((forthcoming in book in honor of R.R.Russell, Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement, Series: Studies in Productivity and Efficiency , Vol. 5 F?re, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Primont, Daniel (Eds.), Approx. 175 p., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-387-36948-8))

2007: Valentin Zelenyuk, Extending F?re and Zelenyuk,? (2007), European Journal of Operational Research 179: 594-595, with Rolf F?re

2007: Olena Nizalova, Minimum Wages in the Longer Run. Journal of Human Resources

2007: Denys Nizalov, Does Firm Size Distribution Matter? An Empirical Test of the Entrepreneurial Pipeline Hypothesis. Economic Development Quarterly

2007: Roy J. Gardner (joint with K-M. Ehrhart, J. von Hagen and C.), Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence. Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming)

2007: Tom Coupe, Incentives and Bonuses the Case of the 2006 World Cup. forthcoming in Kyklos :

2006: Valentin Zelenyuk, Ukraine: Current Position and Perspectives? in Pra?nikar J. and Cirman A. (eds.): Opportunities for the Financial Sector in Transition Countries, Finance. (in English and in Slovenian)

2006: Valentin Zelenyuk, On Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indexes, European Journal of Operational Research 174, pp. 1076-1086.

Valentin Zelenyuk, Statistical Inference for Aggregates of Farrell-type Efficiencies, with Leopold Simar, forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics

2006: Tom Coupe (joint with Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski), Incentives, Sorting and Productivity along the Career: Evidence from a Sample of Top Economists. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 22, nr. 1, p 137-167

2006: Tom Coupe (joint with Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski),Does the Academic Labor Market Initially Allocate New Graduates Efficiently?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 20, nr 3, p. 161-172

2006: Pavlo Prokopovych (joint with Lones Smith and Hector Chade),Repeated Games with Present-Biased Preferences. forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory

2006: Valentin Zelenyuk (joint with Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf) ,Aggregation of Nervolian Profit Indicator. forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters

2006: Valentin Zelenyuk (joint with Leopold Simar), Statistical inference for aggregates of Farrell-type efficiencies. forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Econometrics

2006: Valentin Zelenyuk, On Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indexes. European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 174, p. 1076-1086

17.06.2008. Tom Cupe, Dangerous half-truth. Strategy >>>

12.05.2008. Tom Coupe, Bargaining Strategies. Strategy >>>

12.2007. Pavlo Prokopovych, Inflation Dominates 2008 Economic Outlook. The Ukrainian Observer: >>>

25.12.2007. Tom Coupe, The Economics of New Year gifts. Delo: >>>

17.12.2007. Tom Coupe, The allocation puzzle. Kontrakty: >>>

17.12.2007. Tom Coupe, Free Web content. Kontrakty: >>>

03.12.2007. Tom Coupe, Pay for Performance or Innovation. Kontrakty: >>>

03.12.2007. Tom Coupe, Varying Prices. Kontrakty: >>>

29.11.2007. Volodymyr Vakhitov and Hanna Vakhitova, Ukraine’s migration policy: Is reciprocity fair and efficient?. Kyiv Post: >>>

29.11.2007. Oleksandr Shepotylo, Do leaders matter? The role of leadership in national economies. Kyiv Post: >>>

01.11.2007. Tom Coupe, The Effect of Tax Treaties on Bilateral FDI Flows to Transition Countries.. Global Development Network: >>>

22.10.2007. Tom Coupe, Male Profession. Kontrakty: >>>

22.10.2007. Oleksandr Shepotylo, Large Charisma. Kontrakty: >>>

15.10.2007. Tom Coupe, The Effectiveness of Economic Reforms. Kontrakty: >>>

15.10.2007. Tom Coupe, Ukraine and UEFA 2012. Kontrakty: >>>

08.10.2007. Tom Coupe, The Macro Determinants of Housing Prices. Kontrakty: >>>

08.10.2007. Tom Coupe, A recipe for Wine. Kontrakty: >>>

01.10.2007. Tom Coupe, Height and the Labor Market. Kontrakty: >>>

01.10.2007. Tom Coupe, The Importance of Entrepreneurs. Kontrakty: >>>

24.09.2007. Tom Coupe, Foreign Direct Investment Promotion. Kontrakty : >>>

24.09.2007. Tom Coupe, The returns to education. Kontrakty: >>>

17.09.2007. Tom Coupe, Beauty and Elections.. Kontrakty : >>>

17.09.2007. Tom Coupe, The international competitiveness of Ukrainian economists. Kontrakty : >>>

01.06.2007. Tom Coupe and Ivan Yuryk, Are Ukraine's Political Habits Unique? The Ukrainian Observer >>>

14.06.2007. Valentyn Zelenyuk, Politics, economy and booming stock maket Kyiv Post

07.05.2007. Valentyn Zelenyuk, Yanukovych's Ambitious Promise Kyiv Post >>>

02.05.2007. Oleksandr Shepotylo, Ukraine is Drifting to the West - Slowly but Surely. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

25.04.2007. Tom Coupe, The cost of political instability. Kyiv Post >>>

12.03.2007. Pavlo Prokopovych, More Stable Economic Growth Strategy Needed. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

04.01.2007. Tom Coupe (joint with Bohdan Povoroznyk),Judging Who is Poor in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

10.12.2006. Pavlo Prokopovych, Some Comments on the "Investment-Innovation" Model of Economic Development. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

01.12.2006. Valentyn Zelenyuk (joint with Natalya Dushkevych) , Ukrainian Banking Sector: Evolution and Current State. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

26.11.2006. Valentyn Zelenyuk, Ukraine’s economic recovery should have been expected. Kyiv Post >>>

12.10.2006. Tom Coupe, Should Ukraine really aim to organize the European Championship 2012?. Kyiv Post >>>

13.09.2006. Tom Coupe, Who Should Pay for Education in Ukraine. Kyiv Post >>>

07.09.2006. Valentyn Zelenyuk, The economy under a broad coalition. Delo >>>

07.09.2006. Pavlo Prokopovych, Considering the Option of Federalism. The Ukrainian Observer >>>

07.08.2006. Valentyn Zelenyuk, The Three Magic Reasons for Prosperity of Nations: Does Ukraine Have Them?. The Ukrainian Observer (Ukrainian version in Ukrayinksa Pravda) >>>

May 15, 2008
KSE Public Lecture with Mr. Kofi Annan, the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (a short bio). The title of Mr. Annan's presentation is "Challenges Facing Ukraine and the World" (abstract). The event was organized by KSE and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. (photo gallery)

April 8, 2008
KSE Public Lecture with Dr. Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Prize Winner for Peace (a short bio). The title of Dr. Yunus's presentation is "Fighting Poverty" (abstract). The event was organized by KSE and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. (photo gallery).

Oct 24, 2007
KSE Public Lecture with General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.), Former US Secretary of State (a short bio). The title of Mr. Powell’s presentation is “Democracy and Global World Challenges” (abstract).(photo gallery)

Oct 8, 2007
KSE Public Lecture with Mr. James Wolfensohn, Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, Chairman of Citigroup International Advisory Board, the ninth president of the World Bank Group (a short bio). The title of |Mr. Wolfensohn’s presentation is “Ukraine in a Four Speed World” (abstract). Text of the lecture.The event was organized by KSE and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. (photo gallery).

Jan 31, 2007
Public Lecture for Ukraine's Political and Business Community on "The Economic Future of Space Exploration for Ukraine and the World" featuring Ms. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, USA). Among other speakers: Mr. Leonid Kuchma, Former Ukraine's President; Yuriy Alekseev, Director General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (to be confirmed); Dr. Henry Hertzfeld, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University; and Mr. Leonid Kadenyuk, First Astronaut of Independent Ukraine. The event was organized by KSE and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.(photo gallery)

Oct 12, 2006
Public Lecture for Ukraine's Political and Business Community featuring Dr. Robert Engle, Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, at New York University
and Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at John Hopkins University.
The event is organized by EERC, EROC, and KEI with generous from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. (photo gallery)

KSE Public Lectures (video ~50mb)

Nov 23, 2007
KSE Academic Lecture by Dr. Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University on "Some Thoughts on Games, Decisions, Experiments and Brain Studies".

May 25, 2007
KSE Academic Lecture by Dr. Robert Pindyck, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance in the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, U.S.A.) for students of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

List of all Academic Lectures

17/06/2008: Maksim Yemelyanau "Inequality in Belarus from 1995 to 2005" (at 14:00).

17/06/2008: Elena Besedina "Exporting and Productivity under Endogenous Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine" (at 16:00).

06/06/2008: Pavlo Prokopovych, KSE and KEI. "A Note on the Existence of Pure Strategy Approximate Equilibria in Discontinuous Games".

23/05/2008: Stefano Capodagli, SDA Bocconi (Milan) School of Management. "Ukraine: opportunity for private equity investors".

16/05/2008: Pavlo Trisch, "Pricing and Timing of Bank-Owned Equity Divestments in Germany".

14/05/2008: Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta. "The Data Reject Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles".

06/05/2008: Shlomo Weber, "'Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits".

18/04/2008: Serguei Maliar, University of Alicante. "EU Eastern Enlargement and Foreign Investment: Implications from a Neoclassical Growth Model".

11/04/2008: Igor Bykadorov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk. "Dynamic optimal pricing and advertising in vertical distributional channel ".

04/04/2008: Lilia Maliar, University of Alicante. "Rich, poor and growth-miracle nations: multiple equilibria revisited".

07/03/2008: Peter Norman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods".

05/03/2008: Rhonda Phillips, Arizona State University. "Tourism-Based Development".

25/02/2008:Marianna Kudlyak, University of Rochester. "The Cyclicality of the User Cost of Labor with Search and Matching".

22/02/2008: Chang-Ho Yoon, Korea University. "Technological convergence and regulatory conflicts".

15/02/2008: Fredrik Wilhelmsson , Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). "Estimating the gravity model without gravity using panel data".

01/02/2008: Alexander Muravyev, DIW Berlin. "Entrepreneurs' gender and financial constraints: evidence from international data ".

30/01/2008: Edilberto Segura, Chief Economist, SigmaBleyzer. "Improving Ukraine’s Investment Climate".

18/01/2008: Arne Melchior, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. "International trade and domestic regions".

26/12/2007: Tymofiy Mylovanov, University of Bonn. "Indifferent Public, Passionate Advocates, and Strategic Media".

20/11/2007: Volodymyr Vakhitov, KSE-KEI. "Marshall Scale Economies in Ukraine: Proximity or Restructuring?".

22/10/07: KSE-KEI Workshop on Economics. Presenters: Benedikt Herrmann (University of Nottingham), Erik Herron (University of Kansas), Andriy Zapechelnyuk (KSE and KEI), and Olena Gnezdilova (KEI).

16/10/2007: Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna. "Informal Employment and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine".

10/10/2007: Pavlo Prokopovych, Kyiv School of Economics and Kyiv Economics Institute. TBA.

05/10/2007: Robert Swidinsky, University of Guelph. "The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest of Canada"

26/09/2007:Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley. The presentation title is "Flat tax and tax evasion: Lessons from the Russian tax reform".

21/09/2007: Mark Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University, on "The Cluster-Robust Variance-Covariance Estimator - A Practitioner's Guide"

19/09/2007: Bent Sorensen, University of Houston, on "Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?" (joint work with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef and Oved Yosha)

7/09/2007:Andrei Shevchenko (Michigan State University), on two papers:"Money and the Variety of Goods" (with Kenneth Burdett) and "Money in a Credit Economy in the Presence of Shocks"

04/06/2007:Ivan Yuryk, Kyiv School of Economics. The presentation title is "Analysis of Behavior of Ukrainian Parliament members".

01/06/2007: Jean Hindriks, CORE, Catholic U Louvain. "Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization". (joint with Susana Peralta and Shlomo Weber)

30/05/2007: Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Center for Rationality The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Contracts for Experts with Opposing Interests".

28/05/2007: Alexander M. Danzer and Natalia Weisshaar. "Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine".

19/05/2007: Alexei Savvateev, Assistant Professor at NES, Moscow, Ph.D, CEMI, post doc, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain will present his paper on "What does a small business fear most? A study of shake-out process driven by dominant firms."

16/05/2007: Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Senior Analyst of the Research Department, Bank of Canada. The topic of seminar is "Markups and Inventories in General Equilibrium (S,s) Model."

14/05/2007: Scott Loveridge, Associate Chairperson, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. "Time Preferences for Social and Private Goods in the US."

23/04/2007: Denis Popkoand and Alexander Tkachuk, Economics Department of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. On the patterns of trade convergence in europeantransition countries.

16/04/2007: Stepan Jurajda, the Deputy Director for Research of CERGE-EI and a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI. The topic is "Which Firms Benefit More from Financial Development?"

11/04/2007: Academic Talk with Dr. Abdul Noury, Professor of Economics, Institut d'Etudes Europ'eennes (IEE) at Universit'e Libre de Bruxelles. Dr. Abdul Noury presentation titeled "Enlargement and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament".

02/04/2007: Tymofiy Mylovanov, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Bonn, present his on-going research on diverging opinions

28/03/2007: Johannes Munster, who works on the economic theory of contests and conflicts, on rentseeking, and on labour market tournaments in Free University of Berlin. presentation titled Sabotage.

26/03/2007: Dr. Serguej Maliar, University of Alicante, presentation titled Constantinides' aggregation in the macroeconomy.

list of all seminars

Recent Alumni Successes:

Alina Slusarchuk, EERC2008, has been appointed as an Associate in the Research Department of Institutional Sales and Trading Division of Morgan Stanley (London)

Viacheslav Sheremirov, EERC2008, has been accepted to the PhD Program in Economics of the University of California, Berkeley

According to the 2008 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey (Focus CIS), the analytical team of Concorde Capital has been recognized as the best analytical team in Ukraine. The leaders of the team are Vladimir Nesterenko, EERC2004, and Alexander Parashiy, EERC2004

21 June 2008
Annual Graduation Ceremony.

Sponsors: SCM, Kraft Foods and Kytasty
Foundation.

17 June 2008
Academic Seminar

by Maksim Yemelyanau "Inequality in Belarus from 1995 to 2005" (at 14:00).

by Elena Besedina "Exporting and Productivity under Endogenous Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine" (at 16:00).

15 May 2008
KSE Public Lecture with Mr. Kofi Annan

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations, on "Challenges Facing Ukraine and the World"
(a short bio).

16 May 2008
Academic Seminar by Pavlo Trisch

'Pricing and Timing of Bank-Owned Equity Divestments in Germany'.

14 July, 2007
Alexander Parashiy
EERC graduate 2004, Concorde Capital, cited leading analyst

as the 'Leading Pan-European Investment Analyst - European Emerging Markets'. Our graduates were also ranked highly in this list of the 'Best Pan-European EM Research Analyst-Ukraine' - Alexander Parashiy, EERC'2004 ranked #1; Volodymyr Nesterenko, EERC'2004, ranked #3'; Olga Pankiv EERC'1999 ranked #11; Olena Bilan, EERC'2002 ranked #20; and Taisiya Shepetko, EERC'2004, ranked #21. See more at http://www.concorde.com.ua/press-room/

30 November 2007
Oleksii Orlov, KSE first-year student, became a first-place winner of the
Foyil Securities "Future Business Leaders of Ukraine" contest.

Learn more.

25 June, 2007
EERC-Kyiv School of Economics moved to Dehtyarivska 51. View map

Ivan Yuryk (EERC 2004) has been appointed as Head of Analytical Group and Advisor to Minister of Finance Victor Pynzenyk.

10 April 2008
KSE Student Conference

Essays and Research Papers Competition on "Evidence Based Decision Making-Applying Economics to Real Life." Application deadline - March 3, 2008. Register here. Learn more. Agenda. Winners.

2007
"The Economist" nominated a book of Dr. Anders Aslund

Co-Chair of KSE Board of Directors, on "How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia" as a book of the year 2007.

24 April 2008
KSE Open House

Agenda. Register here

21-25 April 2008
KSE Master Class on "Program and Policy Evaluation".

Application deadline: April 10. Description. Syllabus. Dr. Nizalov's CV. Nizalova's CV.

Bogdan Povoroznyk (EERC 2004) has been appointed as Economic Analyst at the Office of Chief Economist, EBRD.

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