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	news and events complete reports economic data SEE announcements links send feedback -home-		Jul 2010 2010 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition is an innovative award scheme launched by the Global Development Network (GDN), with generous support from the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan and other donors. Since its inception in 2000, GDN has awarded roughly US$ 2 million in research and travel grants to finalists and winners. Winners are chosen by an eminent jury at GDN’s Annual Global Development Conference, with an audience of over 500 practitioners in the field of development to whom the finalists present. This year, the 12th Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Bogotá, Columbia in January 2011. More information: http://www.gdnet.org/~2010awards Jul 2010 Europe's World: Summer issue out now Europe’s World is an independent policy journal launched by some 50 leading European think tanks. Published three times yearly, it is the only pan-European publication that offers policymakers and opinion-formers across Europe a platform for presenting ideas and forging consensus on key issues. It also reflects the diversity of national policy debates in EU states, with particular attention being paid to newcomer and candidate countries. The wiiw is member of the advisory board of Europe’s World. Jun 2010 Olga Radzyner Award 2010 The Oesterreichische Nationalbank has established an award to commemorate Olga Radzyner, former head of the Foreign Research Division, who died in a tragic accident in August 1999. The award is bestowed on young economists for excellent research focused on topics of European economic integration and is conferred annually at the OeNB’s Conference on European Economic Integration. Four applicants are eligible to receive a single payment of EUR 3,000 each from an annual total of EUR 12,000. For more details please follow the OENB link. Apr 2010 MICRO-DYN Summer School 2010 The MICRO-DYN consortium organizes a second summer school dedicated to firm-level analysis of innovation, competitiveness and employment. It will take place September 06–10, 2010 at the JUDGE Business School Cambridge, United Kingdom. There will be half-day sessions devoted to methodological training in panel data analysis and half-day sessions dedicated to the presentation of research results both by young researchers and project participants to the research areas of MICRO-DYN. For more details please follow the MICRO-DYN link. Apr 2010 Call for Papers: Economic Annals Economic Annals is an international scientific journal published quarterly by the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. It publishes research in all areas of economics and business administration, particularly for transition economies. For more details please follow the EA link. Mar 2010 Call for Papers: 2nd OEI/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe The OEI/APB Summer Academies on Central and Eastern Europe aim to bring together researchers in a workshop atmosphere. Each participant presents an ongoing or recently concluded research project and comments on another one, to be followed by a general discussion. In addition, three keynote lectures are presented. This format should be especially interesting for PhD students and post-docs. More senior researchers, however, are also welcome to participate. In order to ensure lively discussions, the number of participants is limited to 15. The workshop language is English. For more details please follow the OEI link. Dec 2009 Call for Papers: Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe The first Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe aims to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and ideas by brining together young scholars working on topics related to South East Europe. The Symposium is intended to help graduate-level research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to share their ideas with a wider audience, and to establish collaborative links across disciplines. For more details please follow the LSE link. Dec 2009 wiiw GDN SEE - 4th phase - papers downloadable now the papers from the wiiw GDN SEE project (4th phase) are now ready for download. The research areas were: inequality, migration, and fiscal systems. This project is a result of the cooperation between the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and the Global Development Network (GDN) – with the support of the Austrian National Bank (OENB) and the Austrian Ministry of Finance (BMF). For the paper download please follow our balkan-observatory link. Dec 2009 IJF Call for Papers Institute of Public Finance (IJF) announces an international conference on: Finance and Growth in Central and Eastern Europe (April 29-30, 2010, Zagreb, Croatia). The conference aims to bring together researchers working in the area of finance and growth with special focus on the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and their economic circumstances in the post-transition period and the current global financial crisis. Proposals (around 500 words) or complete papers should be sent to IJF by February 1 For more details please follow the IJF link. Nov 2009 wiiw GDN-SEE Announces CIS Research Competition 2009 The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), with financial support from The World Bank, the Austrian Ministry of Finance and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), announces a CIS region research competition within the framework of the wiiw Global Development Network Southeast Europe (wiiw GDN-SEE) research project. Deadline for submission of proposals is 11 December 2009. For the Call for Proposals, please download DOC file. WIIW Balkan Observatory mailing list You can receive WIIW Balkan Observatory news by e-mail. For joining the Balkan Observatory mailing list, please follow the link: mailing list.
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