[29.10.08] European Integration and the Regions
The Department of International Economics at NUPI has the great pleasure of inviting you to a seminar presenting results from a large-scale European project.
European integration and domestic regional inequality
Programme
Wednesday 29 October 12.30-15.00
- Arne Melchior, NUPI: Introduction: Regional disparities in European countries
- Fredrik Wilhelmsson, NUPI: Income convergence across regions in the EU and its eastern neighbourhood.
- Arne Melchior, NUPI: European integration and domestic regions
- Svetlana Ledyaeva, Centre for Markets in Transition, Helsinki School of Economics: FDI in Russian regions: An econometric analysis
Discussants : Svetlana Ledyaeva and Per Botolf Maurseth.
During 2007-2009, NUPI participates in a large-scale project under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU, titled “EU Eastern Neighbourhood Economic potential and Future Development (ENEPO) and coordinated by the Centre for Social and Economic Studies (CASE) in Warsaw. In this project, NUPI’s main responsibility has been to analyse the development and causes of regional inequality in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe. The extension of European integration has contributed to income convergence across countries but at the same time, regional disparities inside the new member states have increased. At the seminar, NUPI presents new research on these issues, and Svetlana Ledyaeva presents her work on the determinants of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in Russian regions.