Economics Summer School: Bringing Research into the Classroom

Dates: 16-28 July 2002

Organizing Institution: Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), Russia and NIS Program, Moscow, Russia

Host Institution/Location: EERC MA (Economics) Program at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine

 

Eligibility

Discipline: Economics

Region/Countries: NIS

 

Language(s): Russian

 

Course Directors: Dr. Eric Livny, Director, EERC-Russia/NIS and Dr. Jerzy Konieczny, Director, EERC-Ukraine

 

Contact Information for Applicants:

Coordinator: Olga Lavrentieva

Postal Address: Economics Education and Research Consortium, ul. Malaya Pirogovskaya 18, suite 502, Moscow, 119435 Russia

Telephone/Fax: +7 095 232 3349, +7 095 248 2728

E-mail: eerc@eerc.ru

Web Site: http://www.eerc.ru, http://www.eerc.kiev.ua

 

The School targets young faculty members at universities across the NIS, or advanced post-graduate students who intend to stay in academia and begin teaching in the following academic year. School objectives are: incorporating modern research literature into the teaching process; applying theoretical concepts to the analysis of economic policy in transition; supplementing theoretical training with data analysis using state-of-the-art econometric methods and software. Participants will attend two courses of their choice from the following: Econometric Methods in Economics and Finance; Macroeconomics; Labor Economics and its Application to Transition Economies; Industrial Organization.