R&B #4. PERSPECTIVES ON TAX POLICY, April 6, 2023
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023; 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Venue: Zoom (in English)
Format: Panel discussion
Moderator: Lubo Litov (University of Oklahoma)
Organizers: C4BG; Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” - Faculty of Economics & Business Administration; and the Tax Administration Research Centre at the University of Exeter Business School
Keynote address. Perspectives on tax policy
Professor Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University), Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy
PANELISTS
Professor Agnes Cheng (University of Oklahoma, Dale Looper Chair in Accounting)
Professor Stanley Gyoshev (University of Exeter, Researcher and Lecturer in Finance)
Professor Martin Jacob (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Adidas Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation)
Professor Christos Kotsogiannis (University of Exeter), Chairman of the Management Board of the Independent Authority of Public Revenue of the Republic of Greece (IAPR)
Professor Savina Mihaylova-Goleminova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
R&B #3. COLLOQUIUM ON THE AFTERMATH OF HTE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, October 28, 2022
Date: Friday, October 28, 2022; 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Venue: Zoom (in English)
Format: Three 30-minute presentations & 10-minute Q&A-sessions
Moderator: Lubo Litov (University of Oklahoma)
Organizers: C4BG and Sofia University - Faculty of Economics & Business Administration
Keynote address. COVID-19 in developing countries.
Professor Simeon Djankov, LSE and Peterson Institute for International Economics
Lecture #1. The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
Professor Vassil Mihov, Associate Professor of Finance, Beasley Fellow, and Ralph Lowe Energy Institute Faculty Fellow at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University
Lecture #2. What can a five-million-dollar research grant teach us about the health risks of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines?
Professor Vladimir Atanasov, Brinkley-Mason Term Professor of Business, William & Mary
R&B #2. COLLOQUIUM ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP, May 12, 2022
Attendance: 54 participants from more than 10 countries
Time: Thursday, May 12th, 2022, 11 am EDT – 1 pm EDT (6 - 8pm East European Time).
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Format: 25-minute presentations followed by five-minute discussions.
Language: English
Moderator: Ivan Manev
Gender Effects on the Path from Entrepreneurial Education to Entrepreneurial Intentions among STEM Students in Transiton Economies
Albena Pergelova (MacEwan University), Desislava Yordanova (Sofia University), Fernando Angulo-Ruiz (MacEwan University), Tatiana Manolova (Bentley University); Presenter: Professor Tatiana Manolova
Capitalizing the Future: Using Language to Build Opportunity Capital
Kutay Güneştepe (University of Bath), Dimo Dimov (University of Bath); Presenter: Professor Dimo Dimov
Universities as Accelerators for Social Entrepreneurship
Nikolay Dentchev (Vrije Universiteit Brussels); Presenter: Professor Nikolay Dentchev
The Role of Venture Capitalist Decision Making for the Birth of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Bayesian Model of Start-up Characteristics
Veneta Andonova (Universidad de Los Andes), Germán Molina (Idalion Capital Group), Enrique Ter Horst (Universidad de Los Andes); Presenter: Professor Veneta Andonova
R&B #1. COLLOQUIUM ON FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, March 10, 2022
Attendance: 44 participants; 29 institutions in 10 countries
Time: Thursday, March 10th, 2022, from 11 am EST till 1 pm EST (i.e., 2 hours)
Format: 25-minute presentation followed by a 5 minute Q&A
Language: English
Moderators: Lubo Litov & Stanley Gyoshev
Do Credit Markets Respond to Macroeconomic Shocks? The Case for Reverse Causality
Martijn Boons (Tilburg University); Giorgio Ottonello (Nova School of Business and Economics), Rossen I. Valkanov (University of California, San Diego); Presenter: Professor Rossen Valkanov
Investment Tax Incentives and Local Economic Activity: Evidence from Bulgaria
Stanley Gyoshev (University of Exeter), Plamen Nenov (Norwegian Business School), Trifon Pavkov (University of Exeter); Presenter: Professor Plamen Nenov
The Economic Value of Vaccinations
John M. Bizjak (Texas Christian University), Swaminathan L. Kalpathy (Texas Christian University), Vassil T. Mihov (Texas Christian University), Jue Ren (Texas Christian University); Presenter: Professor Vassil Mihov
Justin Birru (The Ohio State University), Sinan Gokkaya, (Ohio University), Xi Liu (Miami University), Stanimir Markov (University of Texas at Dallas);
Presenter: Professor Stanimir Markov