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WORKING PAPERS

	Unemployment in East and West Europe Daniel Munich, Jan Svejnar IPC No. 25

	China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Jan Svejnar IPC No. 26

	How to Increase R & D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, and Jan Svejnar IPC No. 27
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	Jan Svejnar, Director
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Welcome to the International Policy Center at University of Michigan. The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary research in the areas of international trade and finance; international political economy; comparative economic development; and global health issues.

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Visiting Professor Maitreesh Ghatak is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and the Director of the research programme Economic Organization and Public Policy (EOPP) at the LSE. He is a senior fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has published extensively in the fields of development economics, economics of organization, and public economics, often in the overlap of all of these fields. After completing his PhD from Harvard he joined the faculty of the department of economics at Chicago, from where he moved to the LSE. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Yale, Northwestern, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He has served as editor of the Review of Economic Studies and the Economics of Transition and is in the editorial board of several professional journals.		*** CONFERENCE *** Update on Labor Conference Papers As promised, the papers that were presented at the May 25-27, 2006 Labor Conference held in Ann Arbor have been made part of the IPC working paper series. IPC is happy to provide this service and hope it helps you in your research efforts. September 28-29, 2007, the International Policy Center is sponsoring, in conjunction with the Center for International Business Education, The Ford School of Public Policy and the Ross School of Business, “Firms in the Global Economy.” This conference will be held in Room E1530 at the Ross School of Business. The conference web site is located here. The papers that have been submitted to date are also available at the web site. To attend the conference, please contact Faith Vlcek at fvlcek@umich.edu


IPC Director interviews with Czech Republic The Czech Republic’s economy is doing well, but could be better – as compared with other countries – if the government implements reforms, said Jan Svejnar, director of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy’s International Policy Center. Svejnar is featured on the Czech Republic website: http://www.czech.cz. He can be reached for interviews at (734) 763-3476 or svejnar@umich.edu.