Application Deadline is April 30, 1998

The Summer School program was launched in 1991. The major goal of the series of Summer sessions was to speed-up the economic curricula development in post-communist countries. The Summer School of Economics will be organized again this year.

Course Offerings

The Summer School will offer intense training in microeconomics and macroeconomics on intermediate and advanced level to a group of 60 junior and senior faculty members from post-communist countries.

Intermediate and advanced microeconomics courses will be offered simultaneously during the first part of the Summer School; intermediate and advanced macroeconomics in the second part. You will be allowed to take only one course in each part, so please indicate on the application form which courses you would like to take in the first and which in the second part of the School.

Typical School day contains 3 - 45 minute lectures in the morning and 2 -- 60 minute problem sessions in the afternoon.

At the end of each course a rigorous written examination will be given. Each participant will be required to take two exams (at the end of each of the selected courses).

Faculty

We have invited following lecturers: Prof. Carl Simon (intermediate microeconomics), Prof. Jerzy Konieczny (intermediate macroeconomics), Prof. Yossi Spiegel (advanced microeconomics) and Prof. Ronald Mailer (advanced macroeconomics).

The section meetings will be led by well-qualified junior faculty drawn mostly from the best graduates of the former Summer Schools. The Summer School will also invite established professors and public persons to offer seminars on selected topics.

All lectures, seminars and problem sessions will be in English.

Costs

The Summer School will reimburse the travel costs of the foreign participants only to the limited extend. Therefore we strongly recommend you to contact local Soros Foundation and apply for travel grant. If you not succeed, contact us in order to apply for travel grant from the Summer School.

Free transportation from Warsaw to Muszyna will be provided to all participants. All expenses during the Summer School (accommodation, food, week-end trips, etc.) will be covered by the Summer School. All participants will be given basic texts for each of the selected courses, as well as photocopies of selected articles.

Participants are not allowed to bring their spouses. Because of a very limited number of places, participants are required to attend all classes. If a participant fails to meet this requirement he/she will be sent back home and his/her University and a local Soros Foundation will be notified about this fact.

Who Can Apply?

The enrollment will be limited to 60 participants from post-communist countries. Each successful applicant should fulfill the following conditions:

• To be a university faculty member or a last year student. In the latter case the applicant has to provide a proof that she/he will be employed at the university at a teaching/research position.
• To have a good command of English
• To have a sufficient knowledge of principles of economic analysis and an appropriate background in related fields (statistics, mathematics etc.)
• To provide a letter of recommendation from a person able to judge the candidate's professional qualifications.
• To be a citizen of a post-communist country from the East and Central Europe or the former Soviet Union.

The selection of applicants will be made by the Summer School Committee and will be based on the applications and on the recommendations from universities and local Soros foundations.

The Summer School is supervised by a Committee whose members are:

• Prof. Janusz Beksiak - Warsaw School of Economics and Jagiellonian University
• Prof. Wojciech Maciejewski - Warsaw University
• Prof. Stanislaw Wellisz - Columbia University, New York and Warsaw University

For applications and additional information:

Stefan Batory Foundation
Office of the Summer School of Economics
Al. Ujazdowskie 33/35
00540 Warsaw, Poland
Fax: +48-22-6221285
E-mail: [email protected]

The Application Deadline is April 30, 1998

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