PCPE 2008 Preliminary Schedule
Memorial Lectures
The highlights of the PCPE are named lectures commemorating the heritage of two towering statures of economic science whose lives are bound with the city of Prague: Franz Cuhel and Friedrich Wieser.
The Cuhel Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College in Maryland) DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books, including The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War; How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present; and Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe. He publishes in such journals as American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Research, Economic Inquiry, Southern Economic Journal, The Review of Austrian Economics, Public Finance Quarterly. |
The Wieser Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Bruno Frey (University of Zurich). Frey is author of more than a dozen books and more than 350 articles in professional academic journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics. |
Friday, April 18 - Program held at Prague University of Economics (sessions open to public)
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Registration at University of Economics, Prague | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Welcoming drink | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Josef Sima - Opening of the Conference | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Thomas DiLorenzo - Cuhel Memorial Lecture | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |  IREF Essay Contest Winners Presentation l'Institut de Recherches Economiques et Fiscales (http://www.irefeurope.org) |
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| 15:45 - 16:15 | Refreshment Break | |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Bruno Frey - Wieser Memorial Lecture | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Prizes Announcement | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Closing Remarks | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Dinner |
Saturday, April 19 Program held at Prague University of Economics (parallel sessions)
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Coffee and pastries at University of Economics, Prague |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Panel Sessions A Management and Resource ManagementSession Chairman: Lenka SlavíkovaMariana Man: Motivation of the Human Resource in Organizations Stefan Maria-Cristina: The economic features of the Local and Regional Development Management system specific to the Romanian South-Muntenia Region Ioan Constantin Dima: Aproaches of Management in the Transition Period Transition and DevelopmentSession Chairman: TBATomas Otahal: Fighting Corruption in Former Czechoslovakia: Did the Governments Succeed? Discussant: Pavol Minárik Josef Mládek: Micro-insurance - some institutional perspectives Discussant: Petr Barton Ho-Don Yan: Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change and Taiwan's Economic Development Discussant: Vaclav Adamec |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Panel Sessions B Taxes and RegulationSession Chairman: Jana KapinusovaHUANG, Michael C. - HSIAO, Po-jen: To be or not to be? Deregulation of higher education, case of Taiwan Júlia Tősér: Super Size It? A Rationale Against Feeding The Leviathan K. M. Swinkels: From Republic to Market: An Austro-libertarian analysis of Michael Polanyi's 'The Republic of Science' Money and Monetary PolicySession Chairman: Dan VorechovskyGuido Hülsmann: Demand for Money, Interest Rates, and the Structure of Production Mateusz Machaj: "Usefulness of the interest rate/profit theory - resolving some tensions within the Austrian School" Philipp Bagus: The quality of money and deflation Discussant: Václav Rybáček |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch at the University of Economics Academic Club |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Panel Sessions C Economic Theory and History of Economic ThoughtSession Chairman: TBAPierre Bentata: Artificial Man, presentation of a methodological bias in Law & Economics analysis Discussant: David Lipka Pavel Chalupníček - Lukáš Dvořák: Social and Physical Capital: Merely a Misleading Metaphor? Marek Micuch: Using Models in Monetary Policy Decision Making Discussant: Pavel Potuzak A. Kavaliou: Economic Calculation Debate: An Episode in Soviet Russia Law, Economics and InstitutionsSession Chairman: Josef SimaPavol Minárik: Property Rules, Liability Rules and Eminent Domain Vesselina Spassova: The unavoidable drawbacks of mixing private and public enforcement: an analysis of recent modernization of EU competition law Discussant: Patrik Panes Mihai-Vladimir Topan: Has Ronald Coase Set the Theory of the Firm on the Right Path? |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Panel Sessions D Economic InterventionismSession Chairman: Dan StastnyJoanna Jonczek: European Interventionism Victoria Curzon-Price: Fiscal Competition and the Optimal Tax: Optimal for Whom? Judit Kapas: Economic Freedom in Terms of Kinds of Government Actions: An Empirical Investigation Discussant: Josef Mládek Petr Bartoň: Incentive Packages and Economic Growth |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Dinner |
Sunday, April 20 A visit to the Liberalni Institute (sessions open to public)
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Discussion: How can think-tanks bring about more freedom to Europe? |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Josef Sima - Closing of PCPE 2008 |
