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Preliminary Symposium Program

“ - Escaping from its Post-Soviet Legacy”

April 24 – 26, 2015 Hilton Hotel , Ukraine

24.04.2015

18.00-19.30 Opening Event Dallas Hall, 2nd Floor

President (invited), Prime Minister (invited), Governor of the National Bank Valeria Hontareva, US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine Andreas von Beckerath, EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombiński, KSE President George Logush 19.30-20.30 Reception

25.04.2015 8.15-8.30 Registration Opening 8.30-9.00 Dallas Hall, 2nd Floor Editors of the JCE and JCE Special Issue on Ukraine: Gerard Roland, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Tymofiy Mylovanov

Welcoming word by Vice-Speaker of the Parliament Oksana Syroid Political Economy after Euromaidan: New Perspective Risk Attitudes and Recession in Eastern Europe San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor Parallel Academic Session 1 Parallel Academic Session 2 Title of Speakers Discussant Speakers Title of Presentation Discussant Presentation Thomas Dohmen, 9.00-10.00 Bonn University; Risk attitudes and Hartmut Lehmann, labor market David Jaeger, City Tom Coupe, Who benefits from Scott Gehlbach, University of outcomes over the University of New Maksym Obrizan, liberating Eastern University of Bologna; Norberto Great Recession: A York and University KSE Donbass? Wisconsin Pignatti, comparison of Ukraine of Cologne International and Germany School of Economics - Invitedlisi

Coffee Break 10.00-10.15 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Ralph De Haas, The Judiciary after The Great Recession Yuriy Taras Kuzio, EBRD; Milena Maria Popova, Euromaidan: The and Social Gorodnichenko, 10.15-11.15 CIUS, University of Djourelova, EBRD; McGill University Judicial Lustration Preferences: Evidence University of Alberta Elena Process from Ukraine California, Berkeley Nikolova,EBRD Coffee Break 11.15-11.30 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Trading Hard Hats for Combat Yuri M. Zhukov, Ruben Enikolopov, Andrew Clark, Paris Helmets: The Simeon Djankov, Hope and Change in 11.30-12.30 University of Universitat Pompeu School of Economics of NES Eastern Europe Michigan, Fabra Economics Rebellion in East Ukraine Lunch 12.30-13.30 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Plenary talk: Institution building 13.30-14.30 Dallas Hall, 2nd Floor Gerard Roland Parallel Policy Session 1 Parallel Policy Session 2 Fiscal Policy: Public debt, deficit and austerity How to solve corruption San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor

14.30-16.00 Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko, John Herbst, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Bohdan Speakers Simeon Djankov, Ivan Miklos, Ilona Speakers Vitvitskiy, Zurab Adeishvili, Yegor Sobolev, Sologub, Pierre Jacquet Daria Kaleniuk

Moderator Olena Bilan Moderator Vladimir Fedorin Coffee Break 16.00-16.15 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Parallel Policy Session 3 Parallel Policy Session 4 The SME Sector in Ukraine. How to position it at the top of the Monetary policy: banking and currency crises public policy agenda? San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor

16.15-17.45 Deputy Governor of the National Bank Minister of Economic Development and Dmytro Sologoub, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Trade Aivaras Abromavičius, Jaroslawa Speakers Speakers Oleksandr Zholud, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Johnson, Oleksandra Kuzhel, Kseniya Volodymyr Lavrenchuk Lyapina

Moderator Natalia Zaderey Moderator Igor Burakovsky Coffee Break 17.45-18.00 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Plenary talk: European Future of Ukraine Dallas Hall, 2nd Floor 18.00-19.00 Lucan Way, Erik Berglof, John Herbst

19.30-21.00 Dinner (invitation only)

26.04.2015 Mismatch in the Labour Market Firms and Privatization San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor Parallel Academic Session 3 Parallel Academic Session 4 9.00-10.00 Speakers Title of Presentation Discussant Speakers Title of Presentation Discussant

Olga Kupets, Education-job Alexander M. Danzer, David Brown, IZA- Is Privatization Working Oleksandr Talavera, NaUKMA mismatch in Ukraine: University of Munich Bonn; John Earle, in Ukraine? University of Too many people with George Mason Sheffield tertiary education or University; too many jobs for low- Volodymyr Vakhitov, skilled? KSE Coffee Break 10.00-10.15 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Kim P. Huynh, Bank Olena Nizalova, of Canada; David T. KSE/University of Jacho-Chavezz, Kent/IZA; Tamara Motherhood Wage Emory University; The Evolution of Firm- Sliusarenko, Penalty in Times of Ina Ganguli, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Level Distributions for Monika Schnitzer, 10.15-11.15 Technical Transition: A Test for University of Bank of Canada; Ukrainian University of Munich University of Labor Market’s Massachusetts Oleksandr Shepotylo, Manufacturing Firms Denmark; Solomiya Flexibility University of Shpak, George Bradford; Volodymyr Mason University Vakhitov,KSE Coffee Break 11.15-11.30 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Social Movement in Ukraine Macro allocation and property rights San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor Parallel Academic Session 5 Parallel Academic Session 6

Speakers Title of Presentation Discussant Speakers Title of Presentation Discussant

11.30-12.30 Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh University; Resource misallocation Alexander Nikolaev, Konstantin Sonin, Vadym Volosovych, Ryzhenkov Mykola, and manufacturing University at Make Friends, Not War Higher School of Erasmus University IER and NaUKMA productivity: The Case Buffalo, SUNY ; Alex Economics Rotterdam of Ukraine Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Lehigh University Coffee Break 12.30-12.45 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor To What Extent Denys Nizalov, Social Movements University of Kent; Tymofiy Brik, Security of Property are “Social” in Keith Darden, Suzanne Thornsbury, Oleg Badunenko, 12.45-13.45 Universidad Carlos Rights and Land Use Ukraine?: Some American University USDA; Scott University of Cologne III de Madrid Transition in Ukraine Evidence from Social Loveridge, Michigan Networks Approach State University

Lunch 13.45-14.45 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Parallel Policy Session 5 Parallel Policy Session 6 Energy security in the times of crisis EU Integration San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor

14.45-16.15 Minister for Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of the Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Oleksiy Speakers Volodymyr Demchyshyn, Qimiao Fan, Andriy Speakers Pavlenko, Mikuláš Dzurinda, Jan Svejnar, Taras Kobolyev, Irina Paliashvili, Ildar Gazizulin Kachka, Veronika Movchan

Moderator Roman Zinchenko, Moderator Torbjörn Becker Coffee Break 16.15-16.30 Meeting Rooms Foyer, 2nd Floor Parallel Policy Session 7 Parallel Policy Session 8 Building a World-Class Infrastructure Keeping popular support of reforms San Francisco Hall, 2nd Floor Istanbul Hall, 3rd Floor

Deputy Minister of Economic Development and 16.30-18:00 Minister of Infrastructure Andriy Pyvovarsky, Trade Sasha Borovik, Gerard Roland, Yevhen Speakers Russell Pittman, Sevki Acuner, Sergii Vovk, Speakers Bystrytsky, Dimitri Gvindadze, Oleh Havrylyshyn, Vasyl Gatsko Inna Sovsun, Erik Berglof

Moderator Olena Minich Moderator Yuriy Gorodnichenko 18:00-19.00 Coffee Break/Dinner