Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Coffee

Welcoming Addresses
Mikhail Oseyevksy, Deputy Governor, St. Petersburg
Vladimir Mau, Academy of National Economy, Russian Federation
Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank

Keynote Addresses: 
Chair: Alan Gelb, World Bank

François Bourguignon, World Bank
Presentation: Dynamics of Institutions, Development & the Elites

Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Growth Surprise in Eurasia

10:15 -- 10:30

Growth After Transition: Is Rising Inequality Inevitable?
Chair:  Boris Pleskovic, World Bank

Paper: Inequality & Growth in Transition: Does China's Rising Inequality Portend Russia's Future?
Pradeep Mitra, World Bank
Ruslan Yemtsov, World Bank 

Trade Liberalization, Inequality & Poverty in LAC
Guillermo Perry, World Bank
Marcelo Olarreaga, World Bank
Guido Porto, World Bank 

Discussants:
Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan
Andres Solimano, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC)

11:30 -- 12:00

Floor Discussion

12:00 -- 14:00

Economic Space
Chair: Alan Winters, World Bank

Can Economic Policy Overcome Geographic Disadvantage in East Europe and FSU?
Karolina Ekholm, Stockholm School of Economics

Patterns of Spatial Convergence & Divergence in India & China
Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy & Research
Kiran Gajwani, Cornell University
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University

Discussants:
Alan Gelb, World Bank
Thierry Mayer, Centre d'etudes prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII), France

15:00 -- 15:30

Coffee

Governnance
Chair: Frannie Leautier, World Bank

The Institutional Determinants of State Capabilities in Latin America
Mariano Tommasi, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank

Government and Market Failures in Emerging Market Economies: Implicatioins for Corporate Governance and Bankruptcy
Erik Berglof, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Privatization: What Have We Learned?
Sergei Guriev, New Economic School, Moscow
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma

Discussants:
Irena Grosfeld, Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques, France
Chong-en Bai, University of Hong Kong

17:00 -- 17:30

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Coffee

Keynote Address: Interaction of Political and Economic Transition
Chair:   Jong-Kyung Choi, World Bank

Speaker:   Yegor Gaidar, Institute for the Economy in Transition

Judiciary Foundations of a Market System
Chair: Jean-Christophe Bas, World Bank

Judiciary Reform and Development: Opportunities and Constraints
Matthew Stephenson, Harvard University

Transforming Judicial Systems in Europe and Central Asia
Cheryl Gray and James H. Anderson, World Bank

Discussants: 
Ugo Panizza, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Stefan Voight, University of Kassel

Floor Discussion

12:00 -- 13:00

ECA Policy Workshop

Workshop Sessions (St. Petersburg University)