SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM:
PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
PROGRAMME
Saint-Petersburg
October 20-22, 2016
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Progamme committee
1. Otar MARGANIA – professor, Dean, Faculty of Economics SPSU, chairman of the
Programme committee;
2. Sergei SUTYRIN – professor, Head of the World Economy Department SPSU,
deputy chairman of the Programme committee;
3. Olga TROFIMENKO – associate professor, Department of World Economy SPSU,
responsible secretary of the Programme committee;
4. Jean-Marc BLANCHARD – Wong Center for Study of Multinational Corporations,
Shanghai, China;
5. Vlasta MACKU – Director of the Virtual Institute project, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland;
6. Juha TOLONEN – University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland;
7. Kerstin PEZOLDT – professor, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany;
8. Maarten SMEETS – Head of Section, Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation,
WTO;
9. Torbjörn BECKER – Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden;
10. Michael PARDON – doctor of engineering science, Dresden, Germany;
11. Kari LIUHTO – Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku,
Turku, Finland;
12. Sergei RYAZANTSEV – corresponding-member, RAS;
13. Alexander POGORLETSKIY – professor, Department of World Economy SPSU;
14. Elena EFIMOVA – professor, Department of World Economy SPSU;
15. Natalia KUZNETSOVA – professor, Department of Risk Management and Insurance
SPSU;
16. Andrei PANIBRATOV – professor, Department of Strategic and International
Management SPSU;
17. Vladimir SHEROV-IGNATIEV – associate professor, Department of World Economy
SPSU;
18. Alexandra KOVAL – associate professor, Department of World Economy SPSU;
19. Irina VOROBIEVA – associate professor, Department of World Economy SPSU;
20. Viktor LUKASHEVICH – associate professor, Department of World Economy SPSU;
21. Maryana GUBINA – senior lecturer, Department of World Economy SPSU;
22. Semen MIKHALTSOV – assistant, Department of World Economy SPSU;
23. Elena CHERNIAVSKAYA – PhD student, Department of World Economy SPSU.
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Conference is organized by the Department of World Economy, SPSU and is supported by:
the Faculty of Economics, SPSU
the Endowment fund, SPSU
the WTO Chairs Project
the Baltic Centre of International Studies
«Sodruzhestvo» Public organization of Faculty of Economics Alumni
the EU Marie Curie ITN programme «PRIMO»
the Center for the Study of Emerging Market and Russian Multinational Enterprises
the WTO Expertise Center
the EU project «Jean Monnet – European module»
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09:00 – 09:30
October 20, 2016. 21, Tavricheskaya str.
Registration of participants
09:30 – 10:45 Plenary session. INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM: PROSPECTS
AND CHALLENGES. Conference hall.
Moderator: Sergei SUTYRIN, professor, SPSU
Greeting to the participants
Otar MARGANIA, Dean, Faculty of Economics, SPSU
Sergei BELOZEROV, Deputy Dean on Scientific Work, Faculty of Economics, SPSU
Presentations:
Torbjörn BECKER, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition
Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Russia's external economic links: current challenges and prospects
Kalman KALOTAY, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
Switzerland
Understanding Emerging Outward FDI
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee-break
11:15 – 12:30 Plenary session. Conference Hall.
Moderator: Natalia KUZNETSOVA, professor, SPSU
Presentations:
Evgeny BALATSKY, Professor, Natalia EKIMOVA, leading research fellow,
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Foreign Trade in Overcoming the Malthusian Trap
Sergei SUTYRIN, Alexandra KOVAL, World Economy Department SPSU
Changes in Russian Concept of global governance: foreign trade implications
Ingeborg PARDON, Michael PARDON, Berlin
The role of S. I. Tjulpanow in creating the basis of the soviet-german
collaboration
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch. Restaurant «Taurida Garden». Potemkinskaya str., 4А.
14:30 – 16:30
Sessions
Session 1. Regionalism: new trends. Room 77.
Session 2. Foreign direct investments and multinational enterprises. Conference
hall.
Session 3. Migration crisis in Europe: challenges for national and international
regulators. Room 56.
Session 4. Emerging powers in the international trading system. Room 78.
Session 5. Financial aspects of the international trading system development.
Chaikovskogo str., 62, Room 415
Session 6. S. Tylpanov’s scientific school: contribution to the theory of international
political economy. Room 59.
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee-break
17:00 – 18:30 Round-table: IMPORT SUBSTITUTION IN RUSSIA: RESULTS,
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. Conference hall.
18:30 Summing up. Conference hall.
19:00 – 21:00
Gala-dinner. Restaurant «Kirochniy Dvor». Kirochnaya str., 36.
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Conference outline. October 20, 2016
9:00 - 9:30
Participants registartion
Tavricheskaya str., 21
9:30 - 10:45
Plenary session
Conference Hall
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee-break
11:15 - 12:30
Plenary session (continuation)
Confeernce Hall
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Restaurant "Taurida Garden" (Potemkinskaya str., 4А)
14:30 - 16:30
Session 1
Room 77
14:30 - 16:30
Session 2
Conference hall
14:30 - 16:30
Session 3
Room 56
14:30 - 16:30
Session 4
Room 78
14:30 - 16:30
Session 5
Chaikovskogo str., 62
Room 415
14:30 - 16:30
Session 6
Room 59
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee-break
17:00 - 18:30
Round-table: Import Substitutuion in Russia: Results, Problems and Prospects
Conference hall
19:00 - 21:00
Gala-dinnerRestaurant "Kirochniy Dvor" (Kirochnaya str., 36)
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Session 1. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Room 77
REGIONALISM: NEW TRENDS
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Vladimir SHEROV-IGNATIEV, associate professor, SPSU
Olga BUTORINA, Principal scientific associate, IE RAS
Presentations:
1. Olga BUTORINA, Principal scientific associate, IE RAS
Macroeconomic constrains to regional integration: European and Eurasian dimensions
2. Vera MALTSEVA, associate professor, Ural State University of Economics
Agricultural Trade in Trans-Pacific Partnership: prospects of trade liberalization
3. Maria MAKSAKOVA, lecturer, MGIMO University
Cooperation between Russia and the Western Balkans in context of their participation in
European integration processes
4. Tatiana VORONINA, head of the world economy department, professor, Southern Federal
University
Theory of Integration and Mega-Regional Agreements Practice
5. Maria NAZAROVA, associate professor, Anna MUCHACHEVA, master’s degree
student, SPSU
Benefits and Obstacles to Integration of National Electric Power Systems in the CIS
6. Vladimir SHEROV-IGNATIEV, associate professor, SPSU
Direct Investments from Russia to the Countries of Eurasian Economic Union
7. Inna ANDRONOVA, professor, Russian University of Peoples' Friendship
Economic safety of EAEU in conditions of multipolar world organization forming
8. Natalia IVANOVA, senior lecturer, MGIMO University
Integration in Asia Pacific: RCEP vs TPP
9. Inese BRANTE, University of Latvia
European Union – Common System, but not Equal
10. Astghik SOLOMONYAN, Legal Expert, EBRD GPA Technical Cooperatio Facility,
Armenia
Coexistence of WTO GPA and EEUT Regimes: can we move forward?
11. Mikhail KRIVOGUZ, leading research fellow, Institute of world economy and
international relations
The Ukraine: turn to the West
Participants of the discussion:
1. Sübidey TOGAN, professor, Bilkent University, Turkey
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Session 2. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Conference hall
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Andrey PANIBRATOV, professor, SPSU
Kalman KALOTAY, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
Switzerland
Presentations:
1. Áron PERÉNYI, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia;
Mirosław JAROSIŃSKI, Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; Sang-Chul
PARK, Professor, Korea Polytechnic University, Republic of Korea
The role of perspective in the development of international business relationships: lessons
from the Central European business forum
2. Andrei PANIBRATOV, Professor, Joan FREIXANET, Associate Professor, Liubov
ERMOLAEVA, PhD Student, Saint Petersburg State University
The interconnection of exports, innovation and absorption capacity of a company: Russian
firms’ experience
3. Irina MIKHAILOVA, Head of Master’s program, Aalto University School of Business
Internationalization and innovation: A novel link in Russian MNEs
4. Nataliia NAVROTSKAYA, Professor, University of Customs and Finance, Ukraine
Development of investment process and global competition
5. Sergey SUTYRIN, Professor, Head of the World Economy Department, Olga
TROFIMENKO, Associate Professor, Irina VOROBIEVA, Associate Professor, Saint
Petersburg State University, Russia, Peter ZASHEV, Associate Professor, Saint
Petersburg State University, Russia, Hanken School of Economics
Russian direct investments in Balkans
6. Elizaveta DAVYDENKO, Associate Professor, The International Banking Institute,
Russia
7. Carolin ROTHE, Research Assistant, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Multi-Stage Marketing in International Industrial Markets – Term, Relevance and Fields
of decision 8. Olga TIMOKHINA, Principal Engineer, St. Petersburg National Research University of
Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
Intra-group foreign direct investment of BRICS countries: prospects for investment
cooperation
Foreign direct investments in Russia: the change of the foreign economic orientation
9. Andrei PANIBRATOV, Professor, Konstantin NEFEDOV, PhD Student, Saint
Petersburg State University,
Understanding emerging multinationals through global value chain analysis
10. Vadim KAPUSTKIN, Associate Professor, Artiom GOREMYSHEV, Master’s degree
Student, SPSU
State atomic energy corporation “ROSATOM” internationalization strategy at the world
nuclear fuel cycle products
11. Anna VESELOVA, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, Desislava DIKOVA,
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.
Russian multinationals: looking for a balance between internationalization benefits and
drawbacks
12. Marina LATUKHA, Associate Professor, Louisa SELIVANOVSKIKH, PhD Student,
Saint Petersburg State University
The influence of country- and industry-specific factors on talent management in firms from
emerging markets
13. Semen MIKHALTSOV, teaching assistant, SPSU
Transnational Corporations in Industrial Districts and Clusters
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Session 3. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Room 56
MIGRATION CRISIS IN EUROPE: CHALLENGES FOR NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Sergei RYAZANTSEV, corresponding-member, RAS
Norio HORIE, professor, Toyama University, Japan
Presentations:
1. Sergey RYAZANTSEV, Professor, corresponding member RAS,
Marina KHRAMOVA, Principal research fellow,
Gulnara GADZHIMURADOVA, Leading research fellow, Institute of Socio-Political
Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Economic and demographic consequences of migration crisis in Europe
2. Norio HORIE, Professor, University of Toyama, Japan
Foreign Investment, Land Grabbing and Migrant Labor Force: A Lesson from Russian Far
East
3. Vadim BEZVERBNY, Principal research fellow, Institute of Socio-Political Research of
the Russian Academy of Sciences
Demographic factors of migrant workers "pushing" from the South to the North
4. Sharif AKRAMOV, Principal research fellow, Institute of Socio-Political Research of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
Families of Tajik migrant workers of the Russian Federation and Tajikistan: the socio-
economic well-being
5. Magomed ALIEV, Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
The influence of different migration forms on the socio-economic development
6. Aleksandr TER-AKOPOV, PhD student, Institute of Social-Politic Research of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
The role of labor migration in the system of regional economic integration
7. Anastasiya MAKSIMOVA, PhD student, Institute of Social-Politic Research of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
The population genesis structure as an indicator of the migration attractiveness of the
region
Participants of the discussion:
1. Furkat AKRAMOV, PhD student, Institute of Social-Politic Research of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Russia
2. Yeping HU, PhD student, MGIMO
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Session 4. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Room 78
EMERGING POWERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Elena EFIMOVA, professor, SPSU
Evgeny BALATSKY, Professor, Financial University under the Government of
the Russian Federation
Presentations:
1. Alexey PORTSANSKIY, Professor, NRU Higher School of Economics
System of Global Trade Governance: the prospects for progress
2. Marjan PETRESKI, Associate professor, University American College Skopje,
Macedonia; Branimir JOVANOVIC University of Turin; Igor VELICKOVSKI National
Bank of the Republic of Macedonia
Tariff-induced (de)industrialization: An empirical analysis
3. Irina BELOVA, Associate professor, Russian Peoples' Friendship University
China in the world economy: challenges and prospects in the transition to development
stage “New Normal”
4. Dmitrii KOLESOV, Associate professor; Liudmila POPOVA, Associate professor;
Nikolai HOVANOV, Professor, SPSU
A New Renminbi Index: a half-year experience
5. Andrey GNIDCHENKO, Leading expert, Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-
Term Forecasting (CMASF)
Potential gains from integration for the BRICS; export growth opportunities at the
commodity level
6. Alexandra KOVAL, Associate professor; Martin PIOCH, ES-Researcher, SPSU
The EU and Emerging Powers in the WTO
7. Olga BUCKIUNIENE, Head of Finance Department; Arturas VITAS, Associate
professor, Vilniaus kolegija, Lithuania
Structural changes in Russian exports: macroeconomic interpretation
8. Ali M. LANTUKH, Marie Curie Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of International
Relations Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Multipolarity Narratives in Practice — Russian Trade with Latin America
9. Victor GORSHKOV, Associate professor, Kaichi International University Japan; Zoya
PODOBA, Associate professor, SPSU, Russian Federation
A note on Japan’s contemporary trade policy
10. Kerstin PEZOLDT, Professor, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
The middle class in Africa: driver of economic growth or fata morgana?
11. Elena EFIMOVA, Professor, SPSU
Arctic ports as gateway of international trade in energy commodities: case of the port of
Sabetta
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Session 5. 62, Chaikovskogo str., Room 415
FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Alexander POGORLETSKIY, professor, SPSU
Viktor MATCHEKHIN, associate professor, Moscow Kutafin State Law
University
Presentations:
1. Irina DEGTYAREVA, professor, Inna BAGAUTDINOVA, associate professor; Guzel
TOKAREVA, associate professor; Olga SHALINA, associate professor, Ufa State
Aviation Technical University
Competitiveness of Russian financial institutes under conditions of International trading
system
2. Milana NEUCHEVA, associate professor, Bashkir academy of State service and
management under the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Irina DEGTYAREVA,
professor, Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Prospects of special economic zones development in Russia
3. Alexander POGORLETSKIY, professor, Saint Petersburg State University
Possibilities of special economic zones’ Islamic financing in Russia
4. Natalia POKROVSKAIA, associate professor, Saint Petersburg State University
Islamic tax system: international dimension
5. Viktor MATCHEKHIN, associate professor, Moscow Kutafin State Law University
Impact of the current international BEPS initiatives on Russian tax treaties
6. Nadezhda BASHKIROVA, associate professor, Moscow Lomonosov State University
Influence of tax burden on investment climate
7. Vadim PONKRATOV, director of Fiscal policy center of Institute of financial and
economic researches of Financial University under the Government of the Russian
Federation
Options for development of oil production’s taxation in Russia in conditions of low energy
prices and economic sanctions
8. Olena SOKOLOVSKA, chief researcher, National University of State Fiscal Service of
Ukraine
Trade credit insurance: some international practices
9. Tatiana DYUKINA, associate professor, Saint Petersburg State University
Statistical analysis of tendencies of production of main kinds of import products in the
Russian Federation
10. Svetlana GORBUSHINA, associate professor; Konstantin EVDOKIMOV, bachelor,
Saint Petersburg State University.
Export promotion: the conditions, institutions, tools
11. Natalja TOCELOVSKA, PhD Academic, University of Latvia
Corporate bonds as the alternative for bank crediting: analysis of Latvian market
12. Vitaliy BUROV, chief of department of economic theory and world economy, Transbaikal
State University
New approaches to the management of socio-economic development of the region in the
economic crisis: regional and international aspects
Participants of the discussion:
1. Valentina PUSHKAREVA, professor
2. Igor POGORLETSKIY, Kaliningrad State Technical University, Russian Federation
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Session 6. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Room 59
S. TYLPANOV’S SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL: CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
14:30 – 16:30
Moderators: Natalia KUZNETSOVA, professor, SPSU
Sergei BELOZEROV, Deputy Dean on Scientific Work, Faculty of Economics, SPSU
Presentations:
1. Victor SHEYNIS, senior scientific fellow, IMEMO RAS
Sergej Ivanovitch Tjulpanov: his life and contemporary Russia
2. Leonid SHIROKORAD, professor, SPSU
Ideological context of scientific and political activities of Sergej Ivanovitch Tjulpanov
3. Magda SEREBROVSKAJA, associate-professor, SPSU
Reminiscences about dear Teacher
4. Nikolai RASKOV, professor, SPSU
School of Sergej Ivanovitch Tjulpanov: theory of State Monopolistic Capitalism
5. Evgenia MOROZENSKAYA, head of the center for transition economies studies,
Institute for African Studies, RAS
Regional economic integration in Africa: summary of the 50 years’ experience
6. Natalia DROZDOVA, associate-professor, SPSU
Developing countries studies on the Department of modern capitalism economics
7. Sergej BELOZIOROV, professor, head of risk management and insurance department,
SPSU, Vadim PASHKUS, associate-professor, SPSU
World financial markets studies on the Department of modern capitalism
8. Galina TCHERNOVA, professor, SPSU, Svetlana KALAJDA, associate-professor,
SPSU
Role of insurance sector in the sustainable development of Russia
9. Andrei KUDRJAVTSEV, professor, SPSU
First results of managerial reform on the Russian insurance market
10. Natalia KUZNETSOVA, professor, SPSU , Zhanna PISARENKO, associate-professor,
SPSU
Theory and methodology of international financial convergence measurement
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Round-table. 21, Tavricheskaya str., Conference hall
IMPORT SUBSTITUTION IN RUSSIA: RESULTS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS.
Moderator: Alexander POGORLETSKIY, professor, SPSU
17:00 – 18:30
Questions to be discussed:
How does the import substitution strategy of Russia work in terms of economic recession
and effects of sanctions/anti-sanctions?
What are the challenges of import substitution process in different sectors of Russian
economy?
What solutions were found and what are the highlights of private companies in relation to
import substitution?
What are the perspectives of import substitution strategy realization for Russian business
actors in various economy sectors?
Panelists:
1. Nikolay ALEKSEEV, JSC Bank “PSCB”, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board
2. Ramilia ZHAFYAROVA, Lasertouch, Commercial Director
3. Nikita LISITSYN, Seismo Shelf, General Director
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Doctoral tutorial
10:00 – 11:00 Master-class. Room 94.
Evgeny BALATSKY, professor, Financial University under the Government of
the Russian Federation
Igor MAYBUROV, professor, Ural Federal University named after the first
Russian President B.N.Yeltsin
11:15 – 13:00 Session 1. Room 94.
Moderators: Alexander POGORLETSKIY, professor, SPSU
Evgeny BALATSKY, professor, Financial University under the Government of the
Russian Federation
Igor MAYBUROV, professor, Ural Federal University named after the first Russian
President B.N.Yeltsin
Presentations:
1. Ruslan KODACHIGOV, assistant professor, Ural State University of Economics
Features of smart economic growth in the European Union
2. Mikhail LUBOCHKIN, assistant, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Influence of Globalization on the stock market at the turn of XX-XXI centuries
3. Olga DROGALINU, PhD student, Tyumen state University
The letter of credit as a tool for financing foreign trade transactions
4. Anna NECHAEVA, PhD student, SPSU
The role of para-tariff measures of regulating foreign trade in the formation of national
competitive advantages of Russia
5. Zarina KHETAGUROVA, PhD student, National Research University Higher School of
Economics
US Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures in the Context of Global Steel Overcapacity
6. Anna SELIVERSTOVA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Institutional and economic approaches to regionalism and multilateralism in international
trade
7. Polina MINEEVA, PhD student, National Research University Higher School of
Economics
Changes in international trade between Russia and European countries in terms of
sanctions
8. Vitaliy BOBROV, PhD Student, Ural Federal University
“Sick man of Asia”: deflation as a cause of Japanese socio-economic problems
9. Lidia ZEMLYANSKAYA, PhD student, SPSU
Angelina CHIZHOVA, PhD student, SPSU
Taxation of IT-companies: international experience
10. Marina DUNAEVA, PhD student, National Research University The Higher School of
Economics
Role of services in formation of global value chains
11. Denis SHANENKO, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Problems of internationalization of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises
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11:15 – 13:00 Session 2. Room 78.
Moderators: Sergei SUTYRIN, professor, SPSU
Natalia KUZNETSOVA, professor, SPSU
Presentations:
1. Maria BURKOVA, student, Ural State University of Economics
Prospective ways of cooperation with emerging countries (China and India) in the
international trading system
2. Marina SHANENKO, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Internationalization of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises
3. Elena LUBSKAIA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
How to increase national value added?
4. Elena CHERNIAVSKAIA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University
Russia's position in rankings of the Logistics Performance index: results of 2010-2016 years
5. Elena TEREKHINA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Opportunities of international interfirm cooperation development by Russian ICT companies
and perspectives of adjustment the experience of Finland
6. Liubov ERMOLAEVA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University
The Interconnection of Exports, Innovation and Absorption Capacity of a Company:
Russian Firms’ Experience
7. Alexander GAPOCHKA, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University
Who is happy in container business?
8. Tatiana FLEGONTOVA, PhD student, Russia APEC Study Center
Regional Integration and Business Interests
9. Ekaterina GUBARENKO, PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University
The Role of Internationalization and Globalization in Commodities Markets
CONFERENCE VENUE MAP
FACULTY OF
ECONOMICS:
Tavricheskaya Str., 21
(Conference Hall,
Rooms 56, 59, 77, 78,
94)
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, Administration Building:
Chaikovskogo Str., 62 (Room. 415)
Restaurant
«Taurida Garden»
Potemkinskaya Str. , 4А
Metro Station ‘Chernyshevskaya’ (Line M1):
10-15 minutes walking distance along Kirochnaya Street and the fence of
Tavricheskiy garden
Restaurant «Taurida Garden»
7-10 minutes walking distance
