This year we organised the event in partnership with the European Humanities University.

The Conference was arranged under the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

The working language was English.

To watch the video of the Conference, please follow the link.

Aliaksandr Amialchuk is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toledo. His research fields are Health and Population Economics. His recent research explores the influence of social norms on substance use and health of adolescents.

The Long-Term Effects of Marijuana Use on Mental Health Outcomes

Dmitri Boreiko is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute, Florence. His principal areas of research include blockchain applications in financial industry, entrepreneurial finance and ICOs, corporate restructuring, credit risk management, and securities issues.

SPACs in Europe: Empirical Evidence from the Italian Market

Julia Korosteleva is Professor in Business Economics at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Bath, UK. Her research is on entrepreneurship, finance, and regional studies.

Bank Financial Innovation and SMEs Lending: Do We Experience a Transformation in a Bank-SME Relationship? Evidence from Europe

Igor Livshits, Economic Advisor and Economist, specializes in consumer debt and bankruptcy, political economy, and human capital at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Igor Livshits serves as Academic Advisor at BEROC since its inception.

Building Credit Histories

Kristina Manysheva is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics and the Department of Economics at Princeton University. In her research, she focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of economic development. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries

Daria Minina is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. Her research covers topics in Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. 

The Pass-Through from Inflation Perceptions to Inflation Expectations

Yuri Tserlukevich is a financial economist at Arizona State University. Yuri's research interests are in dynamic models of firm behavior, real options, asset pricing implications of investment options, capital structure, debt structure, employee compensation. He also taught and conducted research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Bocconi University in Milan,  New Economic School in Moscow, and WU university in Vienna. Yuri Tserlukevich obtained his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley.

Corporate Hedging, Contract Termination Rights, and Basis Risk

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