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  Florian Bieber <bieberf at gmx.net> wrote: From Florian Bieber Tue May 14 06:10:59 2002
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From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:10:59 +0200
Subject: [balkans] CfP: Unofficial Activities in Transition Countries: Ten Years
of Experience, 18-19.10.2002, Zagreb

Announcement for an International Conference
Call for Papers
Unofficial Activities in Transition Countries: Ten Years of Experience
October 18-19, 2002 
Zagreb, Croatia 
Institute of Public Finance


The Institute of Public Finance (IPF) invites the submission of papers for its 
international conference on"Unofficial Activities in Transition Countries: 
Ten Years of Experience" to be held October 18-19, 2002 in Zagreb, 
Croatia at the Institute of Public Finance. 

The Scope of the Conference 
An international conference analyzing the size, scope, causes, consequences 
and policy implications of unofficial (illegal, unrecorded, unreported, informal, 
underground, hidden, shadow, parallel) activities in transition countries during 
the past decade.

Description
This conference aims to review, analyze and evaluate the lessons of the past 
decade concerning the importance, causes and consequences of unofficial 
activities in transition economies. To achieve a wide variety of perspectives, 
we encourage the submission of original scholarly works that encompass all 
types of quality research including conceptual, taxonomic, methodological 
and theoretical papers, empirical studies (including efforts at replication), 
interpretive research, policy oriented studies as well as new evidence derived 
from experimental, survey and cross-section methods. 

Although original contributions to measurement issues are welcome, the 
conference aims to answer questions such as: 
Why have unofficial activities been so widespread in some transition countries and less important in others?

How did this develop? What have the consequences been?

Could we conclude that there is some pattern or sequencing in the development of unofficial activities connected with the development of transition and reforms?

If so could we derive any policy recommendations from the experience of more advanced transition countries that could usefully  be offered to those that have not gone as far along this road?

Submission and other information

Prospective contributors are invited to submit an application, abstract and CV before May 31 and final paper before September 30. Travel and accommodation expenses will be paid for the authors of papers selected for presentation to the degree to which we manage to gather funds. 
Submission of complete papers or abstracts should include keywords, the full name and affiliation, address, email, fax and phone number of the author in charge of correspondence. We strongly support email submissions. All papers must conform to standard journal style formats. Please follow 
instructions from http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/styleguide.html

Publishing Opportunities 
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal  Financijska teorija i praksa and possibly in a conference volume.

Background
The Institute of Public Finance (IPF) has considerable experience with research on unofficial activities. In the mid-1990s the Institute organized its first unofficial activities research, later published in the journal Financijska praksa 21 (1-2) 1997 and in Occasional Paper 1 (3) available at 
http://www.ijf.hr/ocpapers/op-3.htm
The proceedings of the IPF's first international conference on the unofficial 
economy in transition were published in Financijska praksa 21 (5-6) 1997 
and in Feige, E. L. and Ott, K. (eds)Underground Economies in 
Transition: Unrecorded Activity, Tax Evasion, Corruption and 
Organized Crime. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1999.
Results of the most recent research on the Unofficial Economy in Croatia are published inFinancijska teorija i praksa26 (1) 2002 and in Occasional Paper</italic> No. 12, 2002 also available at "http://www.ijf.hr/ocpapers/pdf/ijf-ocp12.pdf" 

Papers and abstracts should be sent to:
Katarina Ott
Institute of Public Finance
Katanciceva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Email kott at ijf.hr
Phone 385 1 4819363
Fax 385 1 4819365
http://www.ijf.hr

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