REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2010

Pecs, Hungary

Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th May 2010

GATEWAY: Financing regions: the global financial crisis and beyond

ORGANIZERS: Dariusz Wojcik, Oxford University, Ewald Engelen, UVA, Zoltan Gal, CRS/Pecs University

Topics include:

* The regional nature and the origins and impacts of the global financial crisis
* Global financial systems and regional trajectories
* Alternative finance: how do actors and institutions in regions cope?
* Regional cooperation in times of financial crisis
* Fiscal policy? Local and regional public finance
* The specific impact of recession and credit crunch on central, south and eastern Europe

Please, send in abstracts (between 200 and 400 words) before February 1st, 2010 to:
dariusz.wojcik@spc.ox.ac.uk; e.r.engelen@uva.nl; galz@rkk.hu
If you would like to organise a session within the gateway, please contact us as soon as possible, so that abstracts could be collected before February 1st, 2010.