EBRD/CEELBAS Roundtable - Governance and Corruption in New Europe: Disaggregating Corruption Indicators

Publication date: Feb 7, 2011 9:20:34 AM

Start: Feb 23, 2011 2:00:00 PM
End: Feb 23, 2011 6:30:00 PM

Location: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 432 (4th Floor)

Programme (click on links to view presentations):

14.00 Welcome and keynote remarks Dr Robin Aizlewood, Director of CEELBAS and UCL SSEES Dr Oleg Levitin, Senior Political Counsellor, EBRD 14.15 Panel 1: Disaggregating Corruption Indicators Prof Alina Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Romanian Academy of Sciences: Anti-corruption as a Collective Action Problem: Reconceptualising Development of Good Governance Prof Bo Rothstein, Institute of Governance, University of Gothenburg, Sweden:Corruption in Europe: an Analysis of the Quality of Government at the National and Regional level within the EU Member States 15.15 Panel 2: Measuring Corruption in South-Eastern Europe Dr Peter Sanfey, Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD: South-Eastern Europe: Lessons from the 2009 BEEP Survey Zlatko Nikoloski & Alex Teytelboym, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey 16.15 Coffee break 16.30 Panel 3 Case Studies Ilona Mostipan, IMESS Graduate, UCL / University of Tartu: Modeling and Measuring Traffic Police Bribery in Transition Countries Prof Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society, UCL SSEES: The End of the Global Corruption Paradigm: Disaggregating Measurement of Corporate Corruption 17.30 Drinks and Canapés, Masaryk Room

14.00 Welcome and keynote remarks

Dr Robin Aizlewood, Director of CEELBAS and UCL SSEES

Dr Oleg Levitin, Senior Political Counsellor, EBRD

14.15 Panel 1: Disaggregating Corruption Indicators

Prof Alina Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Romanian Academy of Sciences: Anti-corruption as a Collective Action Problem: Reconceptualising Development of Good Governance

Prof Bo Rothstein, Institute of Governance, University of Gothenburg, Sweden:Corruption in Europe: an Analysis of the Quality of Government at the National and Regional level within the EU Member States

15.15 Panel 2: Measuring Corruption in South-Eastern Europe

Dr Peter Sanfey, Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD:
South-Eastern Europe: Lessons from the 2009 BEEP Survey

Zlatko Nikoloski & Alex Teytelboym, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD:
Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

16.15 Coffee break

16.30 Panel 3 Case Studies

Ilona Mostipan, IMESS Graduate, UCL / University of Tartu: Modeling and Measuring Traffic Police Bribery in Transition Countries

Prof Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society, UCL SSEES: The End of the Global Corruption Paradigm: Disaggregating Measurement of Corporate Corruption

17.30 Drinks and Canapés, Masaryk Room

This was the second in a series of joint events convened by CEELBAS and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It followed our roundtable on The Impact of the Economic Crisis in the Western Balkans: Implications for Politics, Innovation and Change held at the EBRD on 12th February 2010

Related Materials:

RUSSIAN ANALYTICAL DIGEST Newsletter 22 February 2011/No. 92: Corruption and the Rule of Law download issue
Alena LEDENEVA and Stanislav SHEKSHNIA 'Doing Business in Russia: Informal Practices and Anti-Corruption Strategies' Russie.Nei.Visions, No. 58, March 2011 Available for download in Russian, French and English.

RUSSIAN ANALYTICAL DIGEST Newsletter
22 February 2011/No. 92:

Corruption and the Rule of Law

download issue

Alena LEDENEVA and Stanislav SHEKSHNIA
'Doing Business in Russia: Informal Practices and Anti-Corruption Strategies'

Russie.Nei.Visions, No. 58, March 2011

Available for download in Russian, French and English.

Related Media Coverage:

Radio France International (RFI), 23 March 2011 (article in Russian)
Le Moniteur du Commerce International (Lemonci), 22 March 2011 (article in French)
Gulf Times (Qatar), 22 February 2011 (article in English)

Radio France International (RFI), 23 March 2011 (article in Russian)

Le Moniteur du Commerce International (Lemonci), 22 March 2011 (article in French)

Gulf Times (Qatar), 22 February 2011 (article in English)