INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY DIVERSITY - ITS ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

International conference
on
Institutional and Policy Diversity - Its role in economic developement

November 2-4, 2003.
Debrecen, Hungary

2. November, Sunday Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ *** - Debrecen, 5. Pallagi street
   
19.00-20.00 Registration
20.00

Welcome reception - Restaurant of Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ
Hosts:
Prof. Zoltán Abádi Nagy, Vice-rector of the University of Debrecen
Prof. Balázs Hámori, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

 
3. November, Monday Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Debrecen and Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ ***
 
9.00-10.00 Registration Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Debrecen (Debrecen, 49. Thomas Mann str.)
09.20 Bus departs from the Hotel Nagyerdõ to the Hall of the Academy of Sciences
10.00-12.30 Plenary session:

Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Debrecen

Debrecen, 49. Thomas Mann str.

10.00-10.15

Opening remarks

Welcoming addresses

10.15-12.30

Keynote lectures

  • 10.15-10.45 Prof. Daniel Daianu, The Academy of Economic Studies, Romania, President of EACES
    "Economic development: The Role of Institutional and Policy Diversity"
  • 10.45-11.15 Prof. Silvana Malle, OECD
    „Institutional Diversity and Economic Performance”

Coffee Break

12.30 Bus departs from the Hall of the Academy of Sciences to the Hotel Nagyerdõ
   
12.50-14.15 Lunch - Restaurant of Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ
 
14.15-16.15 Session presentations and discussion

Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ

Debrecen, 5. Pallagi street

Session 1 (first part): Institution building in a changing business environment
Chair:
Prof. Péter Mihályi
Co-chair
: Prof. Vince Edwards
Session room 1.

  1. Tibor Mandják: Business relationships, are they institutions?
  2. Joseph Windsperger: Allocation of residual income rights under internal governance – empirical results from the hungarian trucking industry
  3. László Garai - Margit Köcski: How outstanding am I? - A Measuring Device For Social Comparison Within Organizations
  4. Roslan A. Hakim: Globalisation and social protection in malaysia: issues and challenges

Session 2 (first part): The role of national policies in a globalising world
Chair: Prof. László Csaba
Co-chair: Dr. Meyer Dietmar
Session room 2.

  1. Zoltán Ádám: FDI and State: Two key actors of economic transition in Eastern Europe
  2. Miklós Szanyi: Changing Patterns of FDI in Hungary - Prospects of an FDI-based development model
  3. György Komáromi: Was there a bubble in Hungary?
  4. Meyer Dietmar: Human Capital and the Enlargement of the European Union
   
16.15-16.30 Coffee break - Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ, 3. floor Plenary Room
 
16.30-17.50 Session presentations and discussion

Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ

Debrecen, 5. Pallagi street

Session 3 (first part): The impact of the accelerated technological development on institutions and policies
Chair: Prof. Ádám Török
Co-chair: Prof. Xavier Richet
Session room 1.

  1. Norbert Buzas: Organizational rearrangements of the Hungarian National Innovation System on the Threshold of an Innovation Act
  2. Ion Stancu, Tudor Nistorescu, Catalin Mihail Barbu: The Development Of Optimal Agricultural Companies In Romania
  3. Áron Négyesi: Measuring Quality Changes in the IT-sector by the Aid of Price Indexes

Session 2 (second part): The role of national policies in a globalising world
Chair: Prof. László Csaba
Co-chair: Dr. Meyer Dietmar
Session room 2.

  1. Tamás Csányi: Bankers, Brokers, Hackers
  2. Mortaza Baky Haskuei: The Effect of Oil Income on Changing Role of State in Economic Development (Case of Iran)
  3. László Jankovics: Roadmap for the adoption of the euro in Hungary: dangers and opportunities
  4. Károly Mike - Balázs Nagy: Introducing Extra-Compensatory Damages into Hungarian Civil Law: A Modest Proposal
   
20.00-22.00

Conference dinner - Restaurant of Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ
Host: Dr. László Muraközy - dean of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

 
4. November, Tuesday Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ ***
 
8.30-10.10 Session presentations and discussion

Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ

Debrecen, 5. Pallagi street

Session 1 (second part): Institution building in a changing business environment
Chair:
Prof. Péter Mihályi
Co-chair
: Prof. Vince Edwards
Session room 1.

  1. Mária Ujhelyi: Leadership And Organizational Change
  2. Éva Kocsis: Coordination institutions of knowledge sharing
  3. László Tóth: Trust: A transaction cost influencing psychological mechanism
  4. Somesh K. Mathur: Land Reforms in India: An Appraisal

Session 3 (second part): The impact of the accelerated technological development on institutions and policies
Chair: Prof. Ádám Török
Co-chair: Prof. Xavier Richet
Session room 2.

  1. Imre Lévai: Institutional Reforms in the EU and Multi-Speed Regional Integration
  2. Judit Kapás: On the Knowledge Economy’s Firms – An attempt to Extend the Williamsonian Framework of Governance Structures
  3. Andrea Rózsa: Just-in-Time system in terms of real options
   
10.10-10.30 Coffee break - Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ, 3. floor Plenary Room
 
10.30-11.50 Plenary session - Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ, 3. floor Plenary Room

Hunguest Hotel Nagyerdõ

10.30-11.30 Chairs' reports
11.30-11.50 Closing thoughts by Prof. Balázs Hámori