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Western Europe AIB Chapter Annual Report 2001

• Conference "theme": ALLIANCES AND CONFRONTATIONS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE LOGICS OF TRADING BLOCS
  December 13-15, 2001
  
  • Number of participantes: 215
  • Number of papers submitted: 243
  • Competitive papers selected: 58
  • Workshop papers presented: 115
  • Panels organized: 6
  
  
• The main sponsors of the conference were: Axa, The Chamber of Commerce, Ernst & Young and Magic Software.
  
  
• As it is the tradition of the European Academy a Doctoral Tutorial were organized. There were 32 applications of which 12 were selected for presentation in Paris. A prize was attributed to the best thesis proposal to Rekha Khrisnan (Tilburg University) and a prize for the most original proposal to Alan Muller (Erasmus University, Rotterdam).
• Also a special session for the Gunner Hedlund Award was organized. For this outstanding and prestigious award, 18 Doctoral Theses were sent in, from ten different countries. Four were selected as finalists and were invited to present their theses in Paris. The winner was Marian Beise from the Centre for European Economic Research in Berlin.
• Future Conference: The next annual conference will take place in Athens, Greece, 8-10 December 2002. The main theme of the conference is: REGIONAL INTEGRATION, AGGLOMERATIION AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. It will be organized by the Athens University of Economics and Business (Marina Papanastassiou).
  
  The 2003-Conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark and the 2004 in Llublijana, Slovenia and 2005 in Oslo, Norway.

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