NEWS
A Romanian contribution to the EU reform budget debate initiated by the European Commission
The Study (Managing diversity for a growing Europe: a Romanian view on the EU budgetary review process)

GEA Self-Assessment Report 2004-2007 (in Romanian)


GEA launched the Report on Romania and Lisbon Agenda, the 5th edition

5th GEA Report on Romania and the Lisbon Agenda
 Comunicat de presa






Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, published by the World Economic Forum (GEA is the partner organization for Romania):

Comunicat de Presa GEA
General Press Release



GEA has published "The Handbook for Regional Competitiveness Assessment”, a result of the GOF - finance project "Romania – Building Regional Assessment Capacity in Line with the Lisbon Agenda"


GEA hosts, on November 28th, 2007, a public conference to launch the 5th edition of its report "Romania and the Lisbon Agenda". The event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bucharest, from 10 a.m.


GEA is the local partner selected by Arthur D. Little to contribute to the study "Romania Competitiveness Project", financed by IFC


GEA is undertaking a research commissioned by the Association of Leasing and Non-Banking Financial Services on the topic of credit growth dynamics and potential in Romania.


GEA is undertaking a research for The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), within the GDN Southeast Europe network, on the impact of flat tax reform on inequality in income distribution.


GEA completed a study for the European Investment Bank on the financing gap for SMEs in Romania.


Presentations given by professors John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula, Klaus Meyer (Reading University), Ulf Andersson (Uppsala University) and Matija Rojec (Ljubljana University) at the GEA - NEC conference "The Role of Foreign Direct Investments in An Emerging Economy", held in Bucharest on March 16th 2007.

Presentation of GEA Curriculum Vitae IRINA BALTEANU

Name: BALTEANU, Irina
Date and place of birth: 06.08.1975, Bucharest, Romania
Current Adress: Via della Piazzuola, 43, I-50133 Florence, Italy
E-mail: irina.balteanu@iue.it
Nationality: Romanian

EDUCATION

Dates: 2003 – present
Name and type of organisation: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Supervisors: Giancarlo Corsetti si Morten Ravn
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Phd student in Economics

Dates: 2001 - 2002
Name and type of organisation: University of Kent at Canterbury, Marea Britanie
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: MSc in European Economic Integration

Dates: 1994 – 1998
Name and type of organisation: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: BA in International Business and Economics

Dates: April – July 1999
Name and type of organisation: Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3, Lille, France
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Visiting student

Dates: Feb - May 1997
Name and type of organisation: Universita degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Visiting student

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dates: 1998 – 2003
Name and address of employer: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Occupation/position held: Assistant professor

Dates: 1999 – 2003
Name and address of employer: Romanian Centre for Economic Policies, Bucharest, Romania
Occupation/position held: Junior fellow

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

English - fluent
French - good
Italian - basic

RESEARCH

“Variety expansion and the measurement of prices and welfare in transition economies”, European University Institute, 2004.

“Is there a risk of currency crises in transition economies?”, in Daianu, D. and Isarescu, M. (eds.), Young Romanian economists on the Romanian economy, Ed. Enciclopedica, Bucharest, 2003 (in Romanian)

“Banking sector reform in transition economies”, Jurnalul Economic quarterly, May 2001, pp.9-25 (in Romanian)

“Financial sector reform in Romania” (with Hurduzeu, G. and Popa, I.), in Popa, I. (ed.), Transition and reform in Romania, Ed. Economica, Bucharest, 2001 (in Romanian)

AWARDS

Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture scholarship for doctoral studies at the European University Institute
British Chevening Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury

FIELDS OF INTEREST

International economics
Economics of transition


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