Faculty of Law and Business Studies at Catholic Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia is organizing a two day conference to bring together the thoughts and analyses of scholars to address the development, performance and challenges of transition economies.

The themes of the conference are:

• Still systemic change, transformation or a backslide transition?
• Transition ex-post: not an uniform path?
• Economic freedom, property rights and the rule of law, forgotten guidelines?
• Economic roots of populism in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Who pulls the strings in the political economy of transition economies: the state, parallel networks, or mafia?
• “Sustainability” – any substance or relevance for transition economies.
• Tax policy and its effects in transition economies.
• Entrepreneurship development in transition economies: the story of increasing divergence
• The economics of energy and political constraints.
• The role of global value chains in transition economies.
• Population and migration policies in transition economies.
• Illegal migration and individual property rights.
• Return of state terror and its economic aspects: Belarus and beyond.
• COVID-19 policies and aftermath.

Conference Programme Committee:

• Péter Ákos Bod; (Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
• Philip Booth; (Professor, St. Mary’s University, London, UK)
• Anže Burger; (Associate Professor, Faculty for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Martina Basarac Sertić; (Research Associate, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Economic Research Division, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Alexander Chepurenko; (Distinguished Professor, Head of the School of Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
• Gorazd Justinek; (Associate Professor, Faculty of Government and European Studies, New University, Slovenia)
• Silvana Malle; (Emeritus Professor, Department of Economic Science, Verona University Santa Marta, Centre for International Studies, Italy)
• Tomasz Mickiewicz; (Professor, Aston Business School, UK)
• Rado Pezdir; (Senior Lecturer, International School for Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia)
• Abel Polese; (Senior Research Fellow, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Estonia & Senior Research Fellow, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland)
• Krassen Stanchev; (Professor, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
• Mitja Steinbacher; (Dean, FPV – Faculty of Law and Business Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Ružica Šimić Banović; (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Zagreb University, Croatia)
• Vlatka Škokić; (Associate Professor, University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Split, Croatia & Visiting Research Fellow, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK)
• Janez Šušteršič; (Professor, International School For Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia)
• Zoran Vaupot; ( Associate Professor , FPV – Faculty of Law and Business Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Valentina Vučković; (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia)