Czech Economic Society and Slovak Economic Association Meeting

in cooperation with the Mendel University in Brno
and Hungarian Economic Association

Brno, September 11-13, 2019

The joint conference was organized by The Slovak Economic Association and the Czech Economic Society. It was held on September 11–13, 2019 on the Mendel University in Brno (campus of Mendel University at the Faculty of Business and Economics), Czech Republic. The conference commemorated the 30th anniversary of the start of the economic transition of Visegrad countries (former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland) from centrally planned to market economies.

Keynote speakers:

The registration for the conference was closed on July 30, 2019.

Venue:

WEDNESDAY, 11^th September 2019

18:00-18:30    Registration of participants
18:00-21:00    Welcome drink

THURSDAY, 12^th September 2019                                               

  8:30-  9:00    Registration of participants

  9:00-10:30    Parallel Sessions I.

10:30-11:00    Coffee Break

11:00-12:00    Keynote Speaker - Paul de Grauwe

“Behavioural Macroeconomics: A New Way to Think About the Macroeconomy”

12:00-13:00    Lunch

13:00-14:30    Parallel Sessions II.

14:30-15:00    Coffee Break

15:00-16:30    Parallel Sessions III.

16:30-17:00    Coffee Break

17:00-18:30    Discussion Policy Panel

“Perspectives of European Economic Integration” chair: Paul de Grauwe

Panelists:

· Marek Mora, Deputy Governor of the Czech National Bank

· Lubos Pastor, Board Member of the National Bank of Slovakia

· Anna Trzecinska, Vice President of National Bank of Poland

· Szabolcs Fazakas, advisor to the Minister of the PM's Cabinet, Hungary

19:00-23:00    Social Reception

19:15              SEA Award for Young Economists

FRIDAY, 13^th September 2019                                           

  8:30-  9:00    Registration of participants

  9:00-10:30    Parallel Sessions IV.

10:30-11:00    Coffee Break

11:00-12:00    Keynote Speaker - Ľuboš Pástor

“Rational Backlash Against Globalization”, SSRN

12:00-13:00    Lunch

13:00-14:30    Parallel Sessions V.

14:30-15:00    Farewell drink

Scientific Committee

Svatopluk Kapounek (chair)

Mendel University in Brno

Jarko Fidrmuc

Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen

Kamil Galuščák

Czech National Bank

Jan Hanousek

Charles University, CERGE-EI

Gyula Pleschinger

Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Martin Šuster

National Bank of Slovakia

Organizing Committee 

Hana Vránová (chair)

Mendel University in Brno

Eduard Baumöhl

University of Economics in Bratislava

Dominika Doubková

Mendel University in Brno

Hana Lipovská

Masaryk University

Barbora Šiklová

Mendel University in Brno

Tomáš Výrost

University of Economics in Bratislava