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International Conference  

The 'New Economy' and Its Implications for Long-Term Growth in Post-Socialist Countries

Main Sponsor:

 (ALK), Warsaw, March 29-30, 2000

Thursday 29th March

10.00

Opening session:

Opening address - Prof. Andrzej K. Ko?mi?ski, Rector of the Leon Ko?mi?ski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (WSPiZ).

Address by Janusz Steinhoff, Polish Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Economy.

11.00

Coffee Break

1st Session: The new chance or the new challenge?

11.15

Andrzej Wojtyna, Academy of Economics in Krakow:

Does the Traditional Economics Help Us to Understand the "New Economy"?

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, WSPiZ, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), University of Rochester, USA:  

The 'New Economy' and the Old Problems.  The Prospects for Fast Growth in Countries of Post-Socialist Transition.  

Lech W. Zacher, WSPiZ and University of Silesia:

The "New Economy" as an Interaction of Technology, Economy and Society.

Zbigniew Bauer, Pedagogical University, Krakow:

People in the Net.  Is the Internet Going to Change Our Culture and Ideology?

Discussion

13.30

Buffet lunch at WSPiZ

14.30

2nd Session: Unusual business as usual

Stefan Kwiatkowski, WSPiZ and Warsaw University (UW):

Intellectual Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Economic Development in European Post-Socialist Countries.

Jerzy A. Kisielnicki, WSPiZ and UW:

Information Technology as a Factor Stimulating the Process of Globalization.  A Case Study of Polish Transformation.

Witold T. Bielecki, WSPiZ and UW:

Entrepreneurs in the Face of E-Business. Opportunities and Threats for the Polish

E-Conomy.

Robert A. Rz?dca, WSPiZ and UW:

Negotiation under the New Conditions of Digital Economy.  Continuation and Change.

Discussion

16.30

Coffee Break

17.00

Vito Tanzi, IMF and Carnegie Endowment, Washington, DC:

"WSPiZ Distinguished Lectures Series"

The Rise of the New Economy and its Implication for Fiscal Policy.

20.00

Official dinner hosted by Janusz Steinhoff, Polish Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, at reception halls of governmental "Hotel Parkowa".

Friday 30th March

9.00

3rd Session: The E-business. Sector Approach

Andrea Goldstein, David O'Connor, Development Center, OECD, Paris:

E-Commerce for Development: Prospects and Policy Issues

Stanis?aw Flejterski, Szczecin University (US):

The E-finance and Macro-, Mezzo- and Microeconomics. An Introduction to the Costs and Benefits Analysis

Beata ?wiecka, US:

The E-banking. Implications for the Development of Banking Sector in Poland.  

Jacek Brdulak, SGH:

The 'New Economy' and Information Technologies as a Factor behind the Changes in the Polish Transportation Industry. .  

Discussion

11.30

Coffee Break

12.00

4th Session: The Country Case

Andrea Szalavetz, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest:

Structural and Regional Implications of the 'New Economy' in Transition Economies.

Sergei B. Perminov, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of

Sciences, Moscow:

E-commerce Technologies Dissemination in Russia.

Address by Jorge Braga de Macedo, President of Development Center, OECD, Paris.

From Transition to Development: a Globalization and Governance (G&G) Perspective

13.30

Buffet lunch at WSPiZ

14.30

5th Session: The Global Experience and the Lessons for Regional Success

Matti Pohjola, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki:

Information Technology and Economic Growth.  A Cross-Country Analysis.

Philip Hemmings, Stefano Scarpetta, Economics Department, OECD, Paris:

Links Between Policy and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence.

John Zysman, Co-Director of Berkeley Roundtable on International Economy

(BRIE), Berkeley University, USA:

(co-authors: Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, Steven Weber)

Tools: The Drivers of E-commerce.

Discussion

17.00

Concluding session:

Address by Pawe? Rzepka, CEO of Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TP S.A.), the Main Sponsor of the Conference.

Concluding remarks - Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Director of TIGER.