Different Aspects of Rebooting Public Procurement in Hungary Curruption, simplification and SMEs (научный семинар ИНИИ)
Докладчик: Tunde Tatrai (Corvinus University of Budapest)
4th and the last day of RSSIA 2011
The last day of RSSIA began with the lectures about IQ its influence on economic performance by Garett Jones (George Mason University). Why are people with high IQ more patient, pleasant and perceptive? Why are smarter groups more cooperative, but not smarter individuals?
3d day at RSSIA 2011
“Hello, citizens” – Koen Schoors, a professor of Ghent University, started his lecture this way.
2nd day at RSSIA 2011
In the morning of the second day the participants enjoyed the lectures by Russell Pittman, researcher from the US Ministry of Justice. They were dedicated to the natural monopolies and the basic ideas of cross-subsidizing. There were no too sophisticated theoretical constructs that might be interesting only to the narrow group of researchers, but they were strongly connected to the reality, namely, the public antitrust policy. Is there a best policy in this sphere, beneficial to the whole society?
1st day at RSSIA 2011
The first day of RSSIA started with the speech by Maria Yudkevich, RSSIA academic director, covering the history of the summer school and some basic rules. RSSIA is unique both in the way it’s organized and the people it brings together. It began 5 years ago as a local workshop addressed mainly to Russian researchers, and now RSSIA welcomes the participants from different countries and has strong team of experts, who also came to Russia (and RSSIA) from abroad.
5th Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis (RSSIA 2011) “New Institutional Economics: Challenges and Opportunities”
Despite rainy weather in Moscow on July, 5th, it was warm and sunny in the Center for Institutional Studies, HSE, because the 5th Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis (RSSIA 2011) “New Institutional Economics: Challenges and Opportunities” began. All the organizers, experts and participants met each other by the Higher School of Economics, jumped into a comfortable bus and moved to Heliopark Thalasso hotel near Zvenigorod.