Programme | EACES Conference

Final Programme for

EACES conference 12-14^th September, Belgrade, Serbia

Venue address: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business, Kamenicka 6, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Arrival to the registration desk: When you enter the Faculty building through the main door, head up the first flight of stairs to the mezzanine area (elevators are also available for accessibility). A volunteer will be stationed at the entrance to assist you. The registration desks are located in the mezzanine area and will be open from 9:00 am on Thursday, 12th September. If you’re unable to collect your badge before your first session, don’t worry—just visit the desk when you can.

Conference panels and plenaries will be held in four locations:

Amphitheatre A5 (mezzanine floor)
Professorial Hall (first floor)
Rooms S23 and S28 (second floor)

Social media hashtag: #eaces2024

Publisher stands (mezzanine area): Palgrave Macmillan; Akademska knjiga

Hours	Thursday 12^th Sept	Hours	Friday 13^th Sept	Hours	Saturday 14^th Sept
09:00-09:30	Registration Location: Mezzanine floor
09:30-11:00	Parallel sessions I	09:30-11:00	Parallel sessions IV	09:30-11:00	Parallel sessions VI
11:00-11:30	Coffee break Location: Mezzanine floor	11:00-11:30	Coffee break Location: Mezzanine floor	11:00-11:30	Coffee break Location: Professorial Hall coffee bar (1^st floor)
11:30-13:00	Parallel sessions II	11:30-13:00	Parallel sessions V	11:30-13:00	Parallel sessions VII
13:00-14:00	Lunch Location: 7^th floor restaurant	13:00-14:00	Lunch Location: 7^th floor restaurant
14:00-15:30	Parallel sessions III	14:00-15:00	Keynote: Prof Milica Uvalic (European University Institute) Title: “Investment and economic growth in Yugoslavia and its successor states” Chair: Hartmut Lehmann (President of EACES) Location: Amphitheatre A5
15:30-16:00	Coffee break Location: Mezzanine floor	15:00-15:30	Coffee break Location: Mezzanine floor
16:00-17:30	Conference opening remarks Keynote: Prof Engelbert Stockhammer (King’s College London) Title: “The growth models perspective. A post-Keynesian approach to Comparative Political Economy” Chair: Sonja Avlijaš (Vice President of EACES) Location: Amphitheatre A5	15:30-17:00	EACES General Assembly and PhD Award Ceremony Chair: Hartmut Lehmann (President of EACES) Location: Amphitheatre A5
17:30-19:00	Welcome reception Location: Mezzanine floor	19:30-23:30	Gala Dinner Location: “Velika Skadarlija” restaurant, Bohemian quarter

Thursday, 12^th September 2024

09:30-11:00 Parallel sessions I

Comparative economic systems

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Jelena Zarkovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Dusan Pavlovic (Faculty of Political Science – University of Belgrade), Will Bartlett (London School of Economics), Ivana Prica (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Dragan Pavličević (Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University). Second Generation Varieties of Capitalism: Comparing the Cases of China and Serbia .

Jelena Zarkovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business), Nemanja Vuksanovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Ivana Ivkovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). Economic systems of the Global South: new evidence using machine learning approach .

Andrea Boltho (Magdalen College, University of Oxford). Germany, Italy, Japan – Why do Successful Economies Turn Sour?

Zoia Podoba (Member of EACES). Competitiveness of Japan’s economy in the XXI century

Social Capital in Russia and Japan

Room: Amphitheatre A5, mezzanine (registration desk area)

Chair: Satoshi Mizobata (Institute of Economics Research, Kyoto University)

Victor Gorshkov (University of Niigata Prefecture), Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University (KIER)), Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University), Kazuho Yokogawa (Kanagawa University) and Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES). Social Trust and Distrust in Russia and Japan.

Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University/ Ritsumeikan University), Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University), Victor Gorshkov (University of Niigata Prefecture), Kazuho Yokogawa (Kanagawa University) and Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES). Comparative analysis of social capital under the COVID-19 pandemic: Russia and Japan.

Kazuho Yokogawa (Kanagawa University), Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University), Victor Gorshkov (University of Niigata Prefecture), Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University) and Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES). A Comparison of Civic Engagement in Russia and Japan.

Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University), Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University), Kazuho Yokogawa (Kanagawa University), Victor Gorshkov (University of Niigata Prefecture) and Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES). Comparative Study on Social Networks in Russia and Japan in terms of Income Strata.

Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES), Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University | Ritsumeikan University), Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University), Victor Gorshkov (University of Niigata Prefecture) and Kazuho Yokogawa (Kanagawa University). Shift to bridging: Exploring dynamics of social capital in Russia between 2022 and 2024

Navigating the green transition

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Gergő Medve-Bálint (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences // Corvinus University of Budapest)

Anna Hehenberger (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society). Different Paths to Decarbonization: The Role of Foreign Demand for Export-Led Countries’ Firm-Driven Decarbonization.

Gergő Medve-Bálint (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences // Corvinus University of Budapest). The European Green Deal at the EU’s semi-periphery: the green (non)transition in the Visegrad countries.

Judit Ricz (IWE CERS HUN-REN) and Andrea Éltető (IWE CERS HUN-REN). Dependency combined with illiberalism: differences in Central European EV battery production ambitions and strategies.

Norberto Pignatti (International School of Economics at TSU), Florian Landis (ZHAW School of Management and Law), Mariam Lobjanidze (ISET Policy Institute), Anna Sikharulidze (REMISSIA), Mariam Tsulukidze (University of Maryland) and Luka Vashakidze (REMISSIA). Estimating the economic and environmental impacts of introducing green technologies: integrated energy modeling in the Republic of Georgia.

11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions II

Human capital and migration

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Nemanja Vuksanovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Will Bartlett (London School of Economics), Ivana Prica (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Imane El Ouizgane (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University). The Transition to Work, Skills Mismatch and Skill Shortages among University Graduates in the Western Balkans and North Africa.

Vasily Burov (Member of EACES), Denis Ivanov (Shenzhen MSU-BIT University), Anton Kazun (Member of EACES) Michael Rochlitz (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford) and Andrei Yakovlev (University of Bremen). “If you build institutions, they will come”: Factors of countries’ attractiveness for high-skilled migrants

Vladimir Kozlov (IOS Regensburg), Ekaterina Sokolova (ETH), Olga Veselovskaya (ETH) and Dariia Saitova (ETH). Fertility intentions among Russian migrants- the role of shock conditions.

Kazuhiro Kumo (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University). Fertility in Russia: A Re-Examination Using Microdata.

Economic policy and social impact

Room: Amphitheatre A5, mezzanine (registration desk area)

Chair: Miloš Božović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Dr Tahani Mohamed (Bournemouth University), Alan Kirkpatrick (Bournemouth University) and Festus Adedoyin (Bournemouth University). Carbon Emission Pricing, Public Wellbeing, and Public Reaction.

Dragana Draganac (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Kelin Lu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology – Department of Economics). Pricing asset beyond financial value: The impact of prosocial preference and image concerns.

Jürgen Jerger (University of Regensburg). The return of stagflation? A comparative perspective.

Milojko Arsić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business), Zorica Mladenović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Aleksandra Nojković (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). The impact of energy prices on inflation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Political economy and transnational dependencies: Panel I

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Magdolna Sass (KRTK)

Samuele Bibi (Aalborg University). Patterns of subordination in the Global South: the common path of Peru and Kazakhstan between natural resources, foreign ownership and financial inflows.

Tamás Szigetvári (HUN-REN CERS, Institute of World Economics) and Gábor Túry (HUN-REN CERS, Institute of World Economics). Varieties of capitalism and industrial policy strategies in the Hungarian and Turkish automotive sector.

Magdolna Sass (KRTK), Krisztián Koppány (Széchenyi University) and Brenda Murillo Villanueva (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México). Diverging development paths of ‘factory economies’: Hungary and Mexico compared.

Sonja Avlijaš (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business), Pavle Medic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Law and CEVES) and Kori Udovicki (Center for Advanced Economic Studies – CEVES). Empowering David: How Smaller Firms Reconfigure National Dependency on Multinationals in the Era of Disruptive Technological Change.

Slobodan Golusin (Central European University). Digital middlemen and catalysts: The role of online labour platforms in globalising the Serbian IT sector

14:00-15:30 Parallel sessions III

Book Panel: Collected Works of Domenico Mario Nuti

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Milica Uvalic (EUI)

Participants: Saul Estrin (LSE), Jens Hölscher (Bournemouth University), Pavle Petrović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business / Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Will Bartlett (LSE)

State capture and democratic accountability

Room: Amphitheatre A5, mezzanine (registration desk area)

Chair: Milorad Filipović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Ichiro Iwasaki (Hitotsubashi University), Xinxin Ma (Hosei University) and Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University). Corporate Frauds and Crimes in Emerging Markets.

Maja Firanji (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). The Impact of Economic Changes on Audit Reporting.

Vladimir Kozlov (IOS (Regensburg)), Ilya Fominykh (Utrecht University), Daniil Romanov (Oxford University) and Dina Rosenberg (Rowan University). Youth indoctrination in Russia: will it achieve loyalty or hatred?

Attila Havas (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies & AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), Judit Keller (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies), György Molnár (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) and Tünde Virág (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies). Social innovations in illiberal systems: Two contrasting cases in Hungary.

Global perspectives on inequalities

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: David Kemme (University of Memphis)

Yumiko Nakahara (Kyushu Sangyo University). The impact of foreign direct investment on income distribution in Taiwan.

Nikola Altiparmakov (Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade), Snežana Ugrinov (Fiscal Council, Republic of Serbia) and Ivan Lakićević (Fiscal Council, Republic of Serbia). Determinants of market and disposable income inequality across Europe.

Kosovka Ognjenović (Institute of Economic Sciences). Exploring Gender Inequalities in Income: The Case of Serbia and Selected Central and Eastern European Countries.

Elvisa Drishti (University of Shkodra “Luigj Gurakuqi”) and Blendi Gerdoçi (University of Tirana). Steady state level of efforts and life satisfaction – evidence from different European welfare regimes.

Friday, 13^th September 2024

09:30-11:00 Parallel sessions IV

Wage policies and employment rights

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Gorana Krstić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Ion Imbrescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) and Ciprian Preda (West University of Timisoara, Romania). Wages and wage policy in Romania.

Martin Myant (ETUI). Can trade agreements improve employment rights?

Jaan Masso (University of Tartu), Jaanika Meriküll (Eesti Pank, University of Tartu), Liis Roosaar (University of Tartu), Kärt Rõigas (University of Tartu) and Tiiu Paas (University of Tartu). What determines the gender pay gap in academia?

Vasiliy Anikin (Member of EACES) and Ekaterina Slobodenyuk (Member of EACES). Exploring risks of in-work poverty in contemporary Russia.

Financial markets and institutions

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Dragana Draganac (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Miloš Božović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). Macroeconomic determinants of stock-bond correlations.

Lior Cohen (University of Barcelona). Bank of Japan Throws a Curveball: On Yield Curve Control and Corporate Financing.

Milena Božović (BBA). Covered Bonds and the financial stability: Evidence from EU countries.

Samuele Bibi (Aalborg University). USD Hegemony, Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currency and the Geopolitics of Money.

Political economy of EU integration

Room: S28, 2^nd floor

Chair: Ivan Vujačić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Ivan Vujačić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Jelica Petrović-Vujacic (Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade). The Mid-Transition Trap and the Failure of Transition and EU Integration in the Western Balkans.

Attila Havas (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies & AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) and Matthias Weber (AIT Austrian Institute of Technlogy). Multi-level context scenarios for future EU research and innovation policies.

Dmitry Pozhidaev (Makerere University) and Boris Kagarlitsky (Independent). Opium for Development: Marxist Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment in the Open Balkan.

11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions V

Session in honour of Francesco Pastore: Wages and job creation

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Hartmut Lehmann (Leibnitz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies)

Gorana Krstić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) Aleksandra Anić (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Barry Reilly (University of Sussex). The gender wage gap across the unconditional wage distribution in a period of uncertainty: findings from Serbia.

Sangeeta Khorana (Bournemouth University Business School) and Allan Webster (Bournemouth University Business School). Too Few Women at the Top of Firms: Foreign Ownership, Gender Segregation and Cultural Causes.

Brikene Dionizi (University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”) and Bresena Kopliku (University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”). Integrating women in Albania’s circular economy: A dual approach through agritourism and handicrafts.

Sinem Ayhan (Leibnitz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies), Hartmut Lehmann (Leibnitz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies) and Selen Pelek (Galatasaray University). Job Creation and Job Destruction in Turkey.

Innovation and business adaptation

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Aleksandra Đorđević (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Andrei Yakovlev (Harvard University / Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg). Russian Business in 2022-2023: Sources of Resilience and Expectations for the Future.

Jens Holscher (Bournemouth University) and Robert Peter Howard-Jones (Bournemouth University). The Determinants of EU Membership on the Performance of Firms across the Productivity and Profitability Distribution Curve Using a Quantile Treatment Estimator

Ivana Ivanovic (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). ESG reporting in Europe: Content analysis.

Aleksandra Đorđević (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business). The Importance of Productive Capacities for International Economic Interactions of the Western Balkan Countries: Gap Assessments and Policy Recommendations.

Political economy and transnational dependencies: Panel II

Room: S28, 2^nd floor

Chair: Beata Farkas (University of Szeged)

Beata Farkas (University of Szeged). Model of Central and Eastern European capitalism in the era of geo-economic fragmentation.

Miklós Szanyi (Szeged University, Faculty of Economics) and Magdolna Sass (Institute of World Economics, CERS). Changing forms of dependency in East-Central Europe.

Sonja Avlijaš (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business), Dorothee Bohle (University of Vienna), Gergő Medve-Bálint (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Jasper P. Simons (Utrecht University). Shifting the Power Balance in the EU’s Single Market: Central and Eastern European Agents of Change

Thomas Barrett (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies). Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Economic Transformation and Conflict after the Post-Soviet Colour Revolutions.

Saturday, 14^th September 2024

09:30-11:00 Parallel sessions VI

Growth and convergence in European economies

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Will Bartlett (London School of Economics)

Karsten Staehr (Tallinn University of Technology) and Meiyu Lu (Department of Economics, Technical University of Ostrava). Revisiting Economic Growth and Convergence in the Post-Communist Countries.

Anita Pelle (University of Szeged). Competitiveness of EU member states in the era of geoeconomic turmoil.

Vitaliy Roud (Zagreb School of Economics and Management). Assessing the Alignment of Innovation Capabilities and Global Value Chain Integration: An Empirical Analysis from Croatia.

Ivana Prica (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Will Bartlett (London School of Economics). Growth models in the centre and peripheries of Europe: A post-Keynesian comparative political economy approach.

Regional socio-economics

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Dejan Molnar (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business)

Norio Horie (University of Toyama). Agricultural Land Expansion Dynamics in the Russian Eastern Borderlands.

Đorđe Mitrović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business), Milena Rikalović (Singidunum University), Dejan Molnar (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and Business) and Sonja Josipović (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy). Non-communicable diseases dependence on air pollution and level of economic development: insights from cities in Serbia.

Astghik Mavisakalyan (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University), Vladimir Otrachshenko (National Bank of Slovakia) and Olga Popova (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)). Natural disasters and acceptance of intimate partner violence: The global evidence.

11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions VII

Labour market and corporate governance

Room: Professorial Hall, 1^st floor

Chair: Ichiro Iwasaki (Hitotsubashi University)

Xinxin Ma (Faculty of Economics, Hosei University), Ichiro Iwasaki (Institute of Economics Research, Hitotsubashi University) and Satoshi Mizobata (Institute of Economics Research, Kyoto University). Trade Unions and Union Wage Premiums in China and Central and Eastern Europe Countries.

Olga Kupets (Kyiv School of Economics). Job mobility and job tenure among Millennials in post-Soviet and post-Yugoslavian countries.

Mihoko Satogami (Faculty of Business Administration, Soka University) and Ichiro Iwasaki (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University). Diversity of Corporate Officers and its Regional Disparities in Germany.

Anastasiia Pustovalova (University of Tartu). Gender-biased automation and on-the-job skill requirements.

Historical legacies and contemporary socio-economic dynamics

Room: S23, 2^nd floor

Chair: Martin Myant (ETUI)

Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen) and Olga Popova (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)). Echoes of the Past: The Enduring Impact of Communism on Contemporary Freedom of Speech Values.

Martin Myant (ETUI). How (not) to create a national capitalism: a tale of two Czech attempts.

Michael Cottakis (London School of Economics and Political Science). Entrepreneurial imaginaries: explaining the long persistence of entrepreneurship in Thessaloniki and Izmir.

Sylvia Sztern (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Spatial Mobility, Education in Holocaust Memoriam and Jewish Cultural Revival Index in Poland – A Centripetal Alarm Watch checking the costs of European Fragmentation.

Publishers at EACES 2024 Conference

We are pleased to announce that two academic publishers will have stands at EACES 2024: the renowned international publisher Palgrave Macmillan and the leading Serbian publisher Akademska knjiga, known for translating international academic works and making them accessible to audiences in Southeast Europe.

This is a great opportunity to explore the latest publications in your field, connect with representatives from renowned publishing houses, and discover new research materials. Be sure to visit their stands during the breaks between sessions to learn more about their offerings and discuss potential collaborations.

We hope you take advantage of this valuable resource!

Palgrave Macmillan publishes award-winning research which changes the world across the humanities, social sciences and business for academics, professionals and librarians. They offer authors and readers the very best in academic content whilst also supporting the community with innovative new formats and tools. With offices in London, New York and Shanghai, and sales teams across 50 countries, they have a global reach. As part of Springer Nature, they uphold an unbroken tradition of over 170 years of academic publishing.

Palgrave Macmillan is also marking the 25^th anniversary of their book series ‘Studies in Economic Transition’, co-edited by Jens Hölscher and Dragana Radicic. For more than 25 years, the series has brought together leading researchers within transitional and comparative economics. It covers a broad range of topics and continues to define conversations within the discipline.

The publishing house Akademska knjiga [AcademicbBook], founded in 2006 in Novi Sad, quickly became recognised in Serbia and the region for publishing key scientific works by domestic and international authors in various fields, including economics and political science. Their publications cover over 20 different genres across 16 editions. In addition to works by domestic authors, Akademska knjiga has published translations of books from 30 foreign languages.