International Monetary Fund and ICEG European Center organised a workshop with the title:
"Macroeconomic effects of Absorbing the Structural Funds in the New Member States"
Date: 13th of December 2006, Wednesday
Venue: Budapest Stock Exchange's building (5. Deák Ferenc street, H-1052 Budapest, Hungary)
The workshop was organised by ICEG European Center and International Monetary Fund. The purpose of the workshop was to present IMF's two presentation on macroeconomic effects of absorbing the structural funds in the New Member States. The first presentation analysed the topic from a cross-country aspect, while the second one presented the case of Poland and its comparison with the other NMS. After the two presentations the floor was open for questions and comments, accordingly a debate among the participants followed the presentations. In the audience experts were invited from Hungarian governmental institutions, National Bank of Hungary and research institutes.
Presentations:
- Christoph B. Rosenberg (IMF): Cross-country considerations about the macroeconomic implications of absorbing the Structural Funds
- Robert Sierhej (IMF): The Polish lessons as benchmarked against other EU-8 countries
If you have any further questions about this event, please contact Péter Bilek at 248 1160, or pbilek@icegec.hu.