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In this issue:
New AzEcon service: Students
AzEcon recognized by the Azerbaijan International Magazine
For Economists & Academicians
New additions to Research & Analysis database
Contributing to AzEcon Research Database
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New AzEcon service: Students
Understanding the importance of encouraging future economists, AzEcon is about to launch its new service: Students
In this section students will be able to post their university works and share their thoughts and views on Azerbaijani economy with their colleagues. All students are encouraged to submit their course works
Given the constraints, we will accept only those works written by students in graduate programs and Diploma works of undergraduate students (Senior thesis).
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AzEcon recognized by the Azerbaijan International Magazine (http://www.azer.com)
The tributes have been paid to AzEcon in the last, Spring 2002, issue of the Azerbaijan International (AI), an independent magazine published since 1993 and committed to the discussion of issues related to Azerbaijanis around the world. In a special section devoted to student activities related to Azerbaijan, Jamal Ismayilov, one of the co-founders, introduces AzEcon to the wide public and talks about its history.
A timely article, in the most reputable international magazine about Azerbaijan, it sheds light on the newcomer website and gives a good encouragement to the readers of the magazine to visit and check personally out this new discovery.
The article will soon be available online on the following address: www.azer.com
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For Economists & Academicians
In order to promote existing economic literature related to Azerbaijan, we decided to directly appeal to economists, academicians and all others working in any fields related to Economics, to send their works and thus be able to reach the wide audience that AzEcon ensures.
Send your works to AzEcon@yahoo.com with Research in the Subject line. You can send us your works in any format. We will change all .doc files to .pdf in order to better preserve quality and format. Please, try not to send files larger than 1 MB
All members of AzEcon are encouraged to spread this announcement to their professors and fellow economists.
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New additions to Research & Analysis database (view articles at http://www.azecon.info )
Banking & Finance
What's wrong with central bank websites (2001), Steve Hanke and Michael Morgenstern, Central Banking
Central Bank Independence in Transition Economies (abstract) (2000), Wolciech S. Maliszewski, Economics of Transition, Vol. 8, No. 3
Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in Transition Economies - An International Perspective (2000), Alex Cukierman, Geoffrey P. Miller, Bilin Neyapti, Tel Aviv University, Foerder Institute for Economic Research Working Paper No. 19
Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment
Azerbaijan Republic: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (2002), IMF
The Caspian: Is It a Lake, a Sea, or an Ocean and Does It Matter? The Danger of Utilizing Unilateral Approaches to Resolving Regional/International Issues (2000), Barry Hart Dubner, Dickinson Journal of International Law, Winter 2000
The Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict: The War in Nagorno-Karabakh, Section 907, and their Impact on Oil Pipeline Routes (1999), Kenneth Shaitelman, Princeton University
Environmental constraints on development of Caspian oil and gas resources: The Bosporus and the Caspian Sea (1999), Emily J. Hicks, Princeton University
Towards the Control of Oil Resources in the Caspian Region (1999), Mehdi Parvizi Parvizi Amineh, St. Martin's Press
The Controversy over the Caspian Sea Mineral Resources: Conflicting Perceptions, Clashing Interests (1998), Suha Bolukbasi, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 397-414
Timeframes, Markets and Government Interference: A Economic-Based Look at Export Routes for Caspian Sea Oil (1998), Ryan Baum, Princeton University
The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caspian Basin (1998), Conference Report of the Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies & Center for Slavic and East European Studies, May 16, 1998
Azerbaijan, Oil and Geopolitics (1998), Cynthia Croissant, Nova Science Publishing
General information
International Finance and Trade
Trade policy and exchange rate issues in the former Soviet Union (1992), Corden, W. Max, World Bank
Monetary Policy and Macroeconomics
Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in Transition Economies - An International Perspective (2000), Alex Cukierman, Geoffrey P. Miller, Bilin Neyapti, Tel Aviv University, Foerder Institute for Economic Research Working Paper No. 19
Trade policy and exchange rate issues in the former Soviet Union (1992), Corden, W. Max, World Bank
Health, Education, Employment, and Welfare
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism (2001), John R. Lott, Jr, The Journal of Political Economy
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Contributing to AzEcon Research Database
This project is looking for contributors and editors for its Research & Analysis categories.
An editor manages one or more separate sections by searching for new thematic papers, contacting original authors, developing the site, etc. For more information, go to http://www.aubg.bg/home/students/eea980/azecon/join%20us.htm or write us to AzEcon@yahoo.com.
Contributors: To add a new paper to AzEcon's database, send us a stable link if the paper is large (more than 1MB), we will either download it or put link to it; if the paper is less than 1 MB, you can send it to us directly, though try to limit emails to 1 a day. You can also let us know the name, author/s, date, source of the work and we will try to find it ourselves.
All emails should be sent to AzEcon@yahoo.com
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