This year's edition of our annual Academic Conference will focus on the Political Economics of Long run Development in Eastern Europe. There is by now a growing academic literature analyzing not only the current consequences of authoritarianism and corruption, but also the economic history of the eastern region and how that can account for some of the norms and institutions in place today. The purpose of this event is to bring together scholars in this field for a fruitful exchange of ideas and presentations of the current academic standing on the topic.

1. ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2019
THE LONG SHADOW OF TRANSITION:
THE POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF
LONG RUN DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
8:30 - 9:00
10:45 - 12:15
16:00 - 17:00
9:00 - 9:15
12:15 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:30
18:30
10:15 - 10:45
9:15 - 10:15
15:30 - 16:00
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
December 16
WELCOME:
•ANDERS OLOFSGÅRD, Deputy Director SITE.
“POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA”
•KEYNOTE 1: RUBEN ENIKOLOPOV, Rector and Professor at the New Economic
School.
INFORMATIONAL AUTOCRACY IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA
•KEYNOTE 2: DANIEL TREISMAN, Professor of Political Science at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
PANEL 2: THE HISTORICAL LEGACY
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
•GERHARD TOEWS, Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow.
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE 1933 SOVIET FAMINE
•NATALYA NAUMENKO, Assistant Professor at George Mason University.
DISMANTLED ONCE, DIVERGED FOREVER? A QUASI-NATURAL EXPERIMENT
OF RED ARMY’S MISDEEDS IN POST-WWII EUROPE
•CHRISTIAN OCHSNER, Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI and Research Fellow University
of Zurich.
FINANCING LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE RUSSIAN STATE
BANK
•MARVIN SUESSE, Assistant Professor in Economics, Trinity College.
PANEL 1: CURRENT POLITICAL ECONOMICS
OBFUSCATING OWNERSHIP
•SCOTT GEHLBACH, Professor, Department of Political Science and Harris School of
Public Policy, University of Chicago.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, PROTESTS, AND
CENSORSHIP
•GALINA ZUDENKOVA, Professor, Department of Economics, TU Dortmund University.
THE EFFECTS OF ACROSS-REGIME INTERPERSONAL CONTACT
ON THE SUPPORT FOR AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES
•ANDREAS STEGMANN, Postdoctoral Fellow, briq - Institute on Behaviour & Ineqaulity.
COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
CONFERENCE DINNER (Speakers only)
LUNCH

2. ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2019
12:00 - 13:15
9:30 - 10:00
13:15 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:30
10:05 - 12:00
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
PANEL 3: CURRENT POLITICAL ECONOMICS
POLITICAL MACHINES: HOW EMPLOYERS SUBVERT ELECTIONS
•TIMOTHY FRYE, Marshall D. Shulman Professsor, Department of Political Science,
Columbia University.
LIGHTS ALONG THE FRONTIER: CONVERGENCE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
IN THE PROXIMITY OF THE POLISH-GERMAN BORDER, 1992-2012
•MICHAL MYCK, Director of the Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA.
UKRAINIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AT THE PATH OF TRANSITION:
CAPACITY AND AUTONOMY OF CIVIL SERVANTS
•TETYANA TYSHCHUK, Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economicsl of Public.
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: THE IMPACT OF CONFLICT ON TRADE IN
NON-CONFLICT AREAS
•VASILY KOROVKIN, Assistant Professor in Economics, CERGE-EI.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POPULISM
•KEYNOTE 3: SERGEI GURIEV, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po.
END OF CONFERENCE
LUNCH
December 17
THE LONG SHADOW OF TRANSITION:
THE POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF
LONG RUN DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE