Monday, March 7th, from 1:00-2:30 PM EST/ 7:00-8:30 PM CET
Participants
Dr. Yuliya Bidenko
Associate Professor of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Political Science
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Analytical Reports
(De)Structuring of Civil Society: The Political Process in Ukraine and Belarus
Foreign interference in Ukraine’s politics during the 2019 elections: The case of the Kharkiv region
Comments to media related to the current context
- https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/charkiw-101.html
- https://globeecho.com/news/europe/germany/situation-in-kharkiv-many-wounded-in-the-city/
- https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220128-ukraine-russia-kharkiv-is-resilient-as-it-faces-the-threat-of-invasion
- https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-self-defeating-war-has-succeeded-in-uniting-ukrainians/
Bio
http://philosophy.karazin.ua/en/kafedra/staff_pol/bidenko_Y.html
Dr. Timofii Brik
Assistant professor at Kyiv School of Economics
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Academic article in Sociology of Religion
- https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article-abstract/80/1/45/5040146
- This article adds to the literature on religious markets by conceptualizing and measuring intra-doctrinal competition between the Orthodox Church jurisdictions in Ukraine. These churches have exploited nationalistic narratives as substitutes for their dogmatic rewards to compete for congregations. This specific facet of church competition has positively affected people’s religious affiliations and church attendance in Ukraine. This argument is corroborated with a set of mixed and fixed models applied to novel regional data on religious communities merged with survey data from 1992 to 2012.
Vox Ukraine Blog
- https://voxukraine.org/en/what-do-the-majority-of-ukrainians-think-about-state-control-over-economics-and-personal-freedoms/
- Shows that most of Ukrainians tend to believe that the state should have a strong influence on the economy and that personal freedoms should be restricted.
Working paper
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15704
- In this working paper the authors investigate job market effects of COVID-19 on urban Ukrainian households. Their findings suggest that respondents employed in public administration, programming and IT, as well as highly qualified specialists, were more likely to secure their jobs during the quarantine. Females, better educated respondents, and those who lived in Kyiv were more likely to work remotely. Working in the public sector also made people more confident about their future employment perspectives. Although our findings are limited to urban households only, they provide important early evidence on the correlates of job market outcomes, expectations, and financial security, indicating potential deterioration of socio-economic inequalities.
Dr. Natalia Kudriavtseva
Associate Professor, Kherson National Technical University
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Academic Article in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01434632.2020.1715990
- Employing a survey of students of Ukrainian and Russian-language schools in Kherson that asks about their attitude to Ukrainian and Russian the article finds that although the vast majority of students speak Russian, almost everyone identifies with Ukrainian as their mother tongue and with Ukraine.
Policy Blog Kennan Focus Ukraine
- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/rollout-2019-language-law-grassroots-efforts-advance-while-parliament-dithers
- Describes the deployment of the 2019 language law and civil grassroots initiatives organized in Ukraine and shows how grass roots organizations help support language training.
Policy article in Ideology and Politics a publication of the Foundation for Good Politics
- https://www.ideopol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Eng.-04.-01.-2020.-Kudriavtseva-Full.pdf
- Shows that ordinary citizens in n Kryvyi Rih showed wide support for ridding the city of communist past in street names, monuments and the like.
Presentation of current project
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr06v41uhK4
- Describes an ethnographic study of the volunteer initiative “Free Ukrainian Language Courses”, which provides an opportunity to learn Ukrainian to adult Russian speakers in Ukraine. Since 2014, more Russian-speakers have started learning Ukrainian. T
Natalia suggests you donate to the Kherson Charitable Foundation (fund of Kherson Mayor Igor Kolikhayev): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=261923849458605&id=100069229749083
Dr Alexander Rodnyansky
University Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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Academic Article in The Review of Financial Studies
- https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/30/11/3858/3867964?login=false
- On the effects of quantitative easing on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, this paper finds strong effects of the first and third round of quantitative easing (QE1 and QE3) on credit. Highly affected commercial banks increase lending by 2% to 3% relative to their counterparts. QE2 had no significant impact, consistent with its exclusive focus on Treasuries sparsely held by banks. Overall, banks respond heterogeneously, and the type of asset being targeted is central to QE.
Ms. Mariia Shuvalova
PhD Student National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy
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