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wiiw Seminar Series
'Crisis Management in Central, East and Southeast Europe: What is
to be done?' |
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Julius
Horváth, Head of the Department of Economics, Central European
University
Slovakia after the June 2010 Elections: Economic and Political
Choices
21 June 2010, 5 p.m. |
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This presentation
deals with the economic and political situation in Slovakia
in light of the June 2010 elections. The lecture highlights
different features of the Slovak economic and political reality.
The issues discussed will be: the question of the convergence
to the EU-15, political tensions between Hungary and Slovakia,
educational reform, advantages and disadvantages of euro introduction,
response to the current euro crisis in light of the Slovak economy,
perspectives of Slovak fiscal adjustments, the question of growth
recovery, description of the political spectrum with emphasis
on the new coalition government.
Julius Horváth is Head of the Department of Economics, Central
European University; earlier he was the Head of Department of
International Relations and European Studies, also at CEU. Before
that he had the Chair at the Department of Applied Economics,
Academia Istropolitana Nova in Bratislava. In the 1990s he held
positions in Germany (Center for European Integration Studies,
University of Bonn), the US (Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale) and the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI, Charles University).
His recent publications include: 'Global Financial Crisis: Implications
for the Hungarian and the Slovak Economy', in A. Dandashly and
A. Surdej (eds), Global Financial Crisis and Euro Zone Enlargement,
Adam Marszalek Publishing House, Cracow, 2009; 'Growth Experience
and Prospects of Central and Eastern European Countries: A Synthesis',
in G. McMahon, H. S. Esfahani and L. Squire (eds), Diversity
in Economic Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009 (with J. Fidrmuc
and M. Chandler); 'Some Facts on Price Rigidity: the Case of
Slovakia', IXth International Academic Conference on Economic
Modernization and Globalization Proceedings, Moscow School of
Economics, 2009, ISBN 978-5-7598-0646-2, pp. 427-437 (with K.
Lukacsy); 'The Border Effect in Small Open Economies', Economic
Systems, Vol. 32, 2008, pp. 33-45 (with A. Ratfai and B.
Dome); 'Trade Balance and Income Shocks: Experience of Transition
Economies', Transition Studies Review, Vol. 15, No. 2,
Springer, September 2008 (with M. Veselkova). |
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