CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP BUDAPEST

Professor Laszlo Bruszt

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP BUDAPEST Central European University

Graduate Student Political Economy Workshop

Budapest, Central European University

June 6-7, 2013

(Nador utca 13. Room 001)

Program

June 6, Thursday

9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1 – Business interests in the political economy. Chair: Gergő Medve-Bálint

Paper	Presenter	Discussant1	Discussant2
In Business We Trust – The Role of Business Associations and Coalitions in limiting corruption	Eliska Drapalova (EUI)	Agnes Batory	Renira Angeles
Corporate Governance and Labour Management - Labour's Response to Compensation Contracts of Corporate Elites	Renira Angeles (CEU)	Thilo Bodenstein	Eliska Drapalova

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2 – Labour politics. Chair: Gergő Medve-Bálint

Paper

Presenter

Discussant1

Discussant2

Weak Institutions and Labour’s

Bargaining Power – The Case of
Healthcare and Education Employees

Imre Szabo
(CEU)

Thomas Fetzer

Philip Rathgeb

The other social movement unionism: How trade unions borrow social movement tactics to achieve their economic goals

Matthew Lloyd-Cape
(CEU)

Tibor Meszman

Stefano Palestini-Céspedes

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch – Dzsem@CEU, CEU Faculty Tower 10^th floor

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 3 – Sectoral policies and development I. Chair: Imre Szabo

Paper	Presenter	Discussant1	Discussant2
Derangement or Development? Political Economy of EU Structural Funds Allocation in New Member States- Insights from the Hungarian Case	Judit Kalman (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)	Thilo Bodenstein	Zbigniew Truchlewski
Application of the resource curse framework to tourism sector	Sanja Hajdinjak (CEU)	Laura von Daniels	Lela Rekhviashvili

15:45-17:15 Panel 4 – Sectoral policies and development II. Chair: Imre Szabo

Paper	Presenter	Discussant1	Discussant2
Financial policy developments in Southeast Asia	Katalin Varga (CEU)	Aaron Pitluck	Zbigniew Truchlewski
Regional cooperation in non-trade areas among South American countries within the Union of South American Countries (UNASUR)	Stefano Palestini- Céspedes (EUI)	Thomas Fetzer	Matthew Lloyd-Cape

18:00 – Dinner– Dzsem@CEU, CEU Faculty Tower 10^th floor

June 7, Friday

9:30 - 10:30 Panel 5 –Labour market institutions in the “old and new” EU member states. Chair: Zbigniew Truchlewski

Paper	Presenter	Discussant1	Discussant2
Pension and Labour Market Reforms in Poland	Igor Guardiancich (CEU - IAS)	László Bruszt	Kristin Makszin

10:45 – 12:30 “Survival in academia” session Chair: Imre Szabo

Teaching political economy at undergraduate and graduate level: Zsofia Barta, Thomas Fetzer

Guidelines to publications and research: Laszlo Bruszt, Aaron Pitluck

13:00 – Lunch – Dzsem@CEU, CEU Faculty Tower 10^th floor

Paper submitted and reviewed but not presented (Philip Rathgeb could not make it to Budapest due to the floods in Austria)

Adjustment via Segmentation? Government Partisanship, Social Corporatism and Labour Market Reform

Philip Rathgeb
(EUI)

Zsofia Barta

Imre Szabo