The ASECU conference is organised by the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania.

The conference is aimed to encourage development, cooperation and mutual assistance among the countries, industries and companies of South and East Europe and Black Sea Region.
The conference will include contributed paper sessions, invited and plenary presentations, round tables and panels. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings after their presentation at the Conference.
The Editorial Board of South Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (SEEJE), the official journal of ASECU, after having the agreement of the authors, plans to publish selected conference papers following a standard refereeing process.

The official language of the Conference will be English.

Conference Topics

• Institutional Challenges in Promoting Competition Regional economic growth and development
• Post-Accession to the European Union: costs and benefits
• EU and the Processes of Globalization
• The Role of Competition Policy for Development
• The Development of South and East Europe as well as the Black Region Countries
• Competition, innovation and growth
• Competitiveness of businesses and environment in a globalizing economy
• Competitiveness based on quality and innovation versus competitiveness based on dumping factors
• Regional economic growth and development
• New technologies for competition and development
• Applied quantitative methods for development
• Emigration/Immigration and Labor Market in Europe
• Corruption, Investment and Development in of South and East Europe as well as the Black Region Countries
• Competitivety of SME in the South-East Europe
• Quality as a factor of competitiveness
• Cooperation and competitiveness: complements or substitutes?

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 20, 2008
Update: Deadline for abstracts is extended till February 20, 2008.
Deadline for receipt of papers: April 20, 2008

Further information:
www.ase.ro/asecu
Call for Papers
conference2008@ase.ro