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Technical University of Košice - Faculty of Economics
Slovak Section of ERSA (European Regional Science Association)
The Institute of Regional and Community Development

National and Regional Economics VI

October 11th – 13th, 2006
Herlany – Slovakia

Conference topics

  • The EU accession process, Economic and Monetary Union, entry into the euro area.
  • Recent banking and finance market trends and forecasts.
  • Current state of regional disparities (economic, infrastructure and social level) in EU countries and the factors behind those disparities. Regional economic development and improvement of regional competitiveness.
  • Human Resources in Local and Regional Development, successful national and regional policy in education and training.
  • Modelling catch-up, economic convergence and respective roles of endogenous and exogenous forces.
  • Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) as a mean of transfer of technological and managerial know-how into the recipient country/region.
  • Policies for attracting, FDI including strategies based on tax and other incentives and the impact of FDI on economic growth and regional development.
  • Lisbon strategy and regional policy in the new member states -challenges and opportunities.

Conference programme Committee

Prof. RNDr. Vincent Šoltés, PhD.
The Faculty of Economics, TU Košice
Conference program chairman 
Prof. Ing. Milan Buček, DrSc.
Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics, Bratislava
chairman of the ERSA‘s Slovak section

JUDr., Ing. Josef Byrtus
General Consul of the Czech Republic in Katowice

Prof. Ing. Ján Čapek, PhD.
Faculty Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Ing. Ladislav Drabik, PhD.
Casspos, Košice

Prof. Dr. Andrew Harrison
Teesside University, School of Business, the United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. György Kocziszky
Faculty of Economics, Miskolc University, Hungary

Prof. Ing. Jiří Kraft, PhD.
Faculty of Economics, Technical University, Liberec,
Czech Republic

Prof. Dr. Florian Kuźnik
The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

Prof. Ing. Jiří Polách, PhD.
Faculty of Economics VŠB-TU in Ostrava, Czech Republic

Prof. Dr. Volker Ronge
Wuppertal University, Germany

doc. Ing. Tomáš Sabol, PhD.
The Faculty of Economics, TU Košice

Prof. Ing. Štefan Samson, PhD.
The Faculty of Economics, TU Košice

Doc. Ing. Karel Skokan, PhD.
Faculty of Economics VŠB-TU in Ostrava, Czech Republic

Prof. Pere Tumbas, PhD.
Faculty of Economics, Subotica, Novi Sad University, Serbia and Monte Negro

Prof. Dr. Enrique Viana Remis
University of Castilla – la Mancha, Spain

Prof. Dr. Wiesław Waszkielewicz
Faculty of Management, AGH Kraków, Poland

 

Conference Organizing Committee

Conference chairman:
doc. RNDr. Oto Hudec, PhD.

Ing. Zuzana Kmecová - Ing. Iveta Korobaničová - Ing. Gabriela Koľveková - Ing. Nataša Urbančíková, PhD. - Ing. Michal Šoltés - Ing. Tomáš Želinský