Newsletter
sent out irregularly, mainly
on the basis of what's new
Edited etc. by Jan Owsiński
Issue no.9, Winter/Spring
2003
Contents:
1.
From the editor
2.
MODEST 2002
meeting in Warsaw
3.
Some other
activities
4.
Invitation to
MODEST 2004
Please, note the inviation to MODEST 2004!!!
September 23-25, 2004, Warsaw
1. From the editor
Dear Friends, it is after a
certain delay that we are informing you again of the activities of our working
group. This is by no means, as you will see further on, because there has been
nothing to write you about. To the contrary, we have been quite busy over the
last months and are also going to be busy in the nearest foreseeablefuture. It
is true that not all of our endeavours succeeded nor all ideas turned into
reality. Yet, we think that, on the one hand, the output we produced is not
altogether negligible, and on the other hand - it is definitely worth
maintaining a definite level of effort to go on with the working group as a
partly formal and partly informal network of willing individuals. At the same
time, we do not abandon the hope that a synergy will arise from our activity
and the network, leading to a more integrated and voluminous project,
hopefully of European or even broader dimensions.
2. MODEST 2002 meeting
in Warsaw
The consecutive meeting of MODEST took place on September
27-28, 2002, in Warsaw, within the framework of the regular national
conference of the Polish Society of Operational and System Research Society ("BOS
2002"). Two full English-language sessions were organised at this conference
by MODEST, constituting the proper MODEST 2002 meeting. Prior to this meeting,
a book was published, based on the papers proposed for the MODEST workshop The
bibliographical data of the book are as follows:
Jan W. Owsiński, editor, MODEST 2002: Transition &
Transformation: Problems and Models. The Interfaces Institute for MODEST,
Warsaw 2002, 210 pages, ISBN 83-85847-77-4.
The book can be ordered from the Publications Department of
the Systems Research Institute. Address Ms. Joanna Runowska, Systems Research
Institute, Newelska 6, 01-447 Warszawa, Poland; (
Joanna.Runowska@ibspan.waw.pl
), to obtain the book at the MODEST (!) price of 20 € + postage.
The following papers are contained in the volume:
1. The society, education,
politics, market, and management
Helena Lindskog and Staffan Brege
(Sweden) Time-rich and time-poor consumer behavior. The importance of time
in market segmentation
Paul Iles, Maurice Yolles (United
Kingdom) Anglo-Czech alliance in management education - a viable systems
approach
Mikhail Mikhalevich and Ludmilla
Koshlai (Ukraine) Modelling of multibranch competition in the labour market
for countries in transition
Honorata Sosnowska (Poland) A
generalization of the Barbera-Jackson's model of self-stable majority rules
2. Action at a distance:
trade, FDI, and competitiveness
Olivier Hueber, Christian Longhi
(France) Foreign direct investments and economic transition in Central and
Eastern Europe
Gabriela C. Florescu (Romania)
Assessments of the foreign bank entry into the Romanian transient economy
Witold Jakóbik (Poland)
Dynamics of
Poland's economic competitiveness (1990-2000)
Jan W. Owsiński, Sławomir
Zadrożny (Poland) Trade, Baltic
Europe, and what is changing
3. Banking, finance, and money
Jan Gadomski (Poland) Dynamic
modelling of the banking system
Shouyang Wang, Jing Zhang (PR
China) The reform of foreign exchange system and the trend of RMB: testing
PPP in China
Urmas Sepp (Estonia)
The currency board arrangement and alternative policy rules in
Estonia
Shouyang Wang, Jing Zhang (PR
China) The effect of B-share opening on the black market for US dollar in
Shanghai, China
The book does not fully reflect
the contents of the workshop, since several of the papers contained in the
volume could not be presented at the meeting (Urmas Sepp had to our deep grief
passed away just prior to the workshop, and some other authors could not
participate for organisational or technical reasons), and, on the other hand,
several interesting papers, not published in the book, were presented (e.g.
the introductory lecture by Ove Brandes from Sweden on modern corporate
strategies and their association with quantitative methods of analysis, or by
the Polish-Austrian team headed by Zbigniew Nahorski on the greenhouse gases
trading issues).
The support extended by EURO to
the meeting is gratefully acknowledged.
3. Some other activities
It is perhaps a good place to
mention that the MODEST members were actively involved in the subsequent
conferences of the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES), in Paris
(March 2002), and then in Vienna (March 2003). We managed to set up two
sessions in Paris, devoted to gravity models of international trade and their
relation to globalisation, and then one session in Vienna, whose focus moved
more explicitly towards globalisation. Altogether 13 papers were presented at
these sessions, forming quite a nice stream of thought. Likewise, there were
very interesting discussions on both the substrate of the analysis (trade,
globalisation,...) and the methods used. It is not inconceivable that you will
also receive an inviation to the subsequent IAES conference in Lisbon (March
2004), at which we might want to extend yet the field of interest touched upon
in the previous conferences during our sessions.
4. Invitation to MODEST
2004
The current issue of the
Newsletter is an opportunity to extend to you all acordial invitation to
participate in and contribute to the subsequent MODEST meeting. MODEST 2004
will take place in Warsaw on September 23-25th 2004
(Thursday-Saturday), again in association with a much bigger national
conference of the Polish operations and systems research community ("BOS
2004"). It is intended that, like in the previous case, a book related to the
meeting be published yet before it.
As in all the cases of the MODEST
meetings before, we envisage having a very reasonable registration fee,
including the book and all the usual conference items. We expect, as well, to
be able to cover a part of expenses of some of the participants, though this
possibility is still subject to negotiations and will certainly be quite
limited.
Thus, please feel invited to contribute and participate. The pre-registration
forms are being sent out separately. You can, though, as always, address us
directly, or by the intermediary of Ms. Krystyna Warzywoda, c/o Systems
Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447 Warszawa,
Poland (
warzywod@ibspan.waw.pl
), who will be running the secretariat of BOS 2004, and therefore also of
MODEST 2004.