Monthly Theoretical workshop.

Supervisor – Academician V.A.Martynov.

January 28.
Russia’s Banking System: Time for the crucial Decisions.

Discussion:
Russian banks: myths and reality.
Will the Russian banking sector survive in 2006?
Foreign banks in Russia: the giants and awakening.
Possible scenarios for the consolidation of the Russian banking business.

Presentation – Dr. Alexander A.Khandruyev, Head of the BFI Consulting Group (Banks, Finance, Investment).

February 25.
Development of Major Economies: Current Situation and Prospects (Forecasts).

Discussion.

1. Factors and “locomotives” (if any) of economic growth. The role of high-tech and technological transformations. The role of financial markets in economic growth characteristics of the fluctuations of the current economic cycle.
2. Productivity and efficiency measurement in high-tech industries. The 2001 crisis in the sphere of innovations. Dynamics of high-tech in a new cycle. The limits of the role of high-tech in overall production.
3. The role of the State (government policy). Social economy in developed countries: a crisis or a new phase of development.
4. Interdependence of the US, European and Japanese economies and their competitiveness.
5. Interdependence in the world economy and development of the US economy.
6. The role of the services sector and the economic growth in the United States.
7. Corporate sector in the United States: factors of efficiency.
8. Impact of the labor market globalization on the economic development of the United States.

Speakers: E.V.Kirichenko, Cand. Sc. (Econ.); L.S.Demidova, Cand. Sc. (Econ.); V.I. Martsinkevich, Dr. Sc. (Econ.); E.A.Lebedeva, Cand. Sc. (Hist.); G.K. Nikolskaya, Cand. Sc. (Hist.); O.V. Bogayevskaya.

March 3.
Development of the Russian Far East

Presentation – Pavel A. Minakir, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.

March 17.
Post-Industrial Agribusiness. A New Stage of World Agriculture Development?

Presentation – D.N.Rylko, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Head of Agribusiness Center, IMEMO.

June 2.
Economic Consequences of Chinese Immigration into Russia.

Discussion:

1. Trade between Russia and China: actual volumes.
2. Migration between Russia and China as a part of the trade and industrial system of the People’s Republic of China.
3. Proposals for the improvement of Russia’s strategy.

Presentation – G.V.Gelbras, Dr. Sc. (Hist.), Chief researcher, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, IMEMO.

June 16.
Socio-economic Development of the World’s Leading States in the late 20^th – early 21^st Centuries: Trends towards Change.

Discussion:

1. Formation of the global information society and its social consequences.
2. Social realities and social forecasts: the experience of industrially developed countries.

Presentation – N.V.Zagladin, Dr. Sc. (Hist.), Head of the Center for Comparative Social-Economic and Social-Political Studies, IMEMO.

For more detail see: Socio-economic Development of the World’s Leading States in the late 20^th – early 21^st Centuries: Trends towards Change. M.: IMEMO, 2004, 67 pp. (in Russian).

October 13.
Corporate Governance and Development of State Capitalism in Russia.

Discussion:

1. State and stability of institutional environment.
2. Formation of new institutions and a controversial role of the state: some lessons.
3. Trends in the development of “state capitalism”.

Presentation – A.D.Radygin, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), IET (Institute for the Economy in Transition).

November 17.
Human capital and Russia.

Speakers: N.P.Ivanov, Dr. Sc. (Econ.); R.I.Kapelyushnikov, Dr. Sc. (Econ.); A.V.Poletayev, Dr. Sc. (Econ.); V.I.Martsinkevich, Dr. Sc. (Econ.).