Koen Schoors
 

 

Function: Senior
Telephone: 09/264.89.74.
Fax: 09/264.35.99.
E-mail: Koen.Schoors@UGent.be
Office: 110.033
Areas of Research
  Financial systems of the Eastern-European economies: banking and financial markets in Russia
Articles in journals
 

  • Karas A., Pyle, W. , Schoors, K., 2010, Sophisticated Discipline in a Nascent Deposit Market: Evidence from Post-Communist Russia, Oxford Economic Papers  62(1), 36-61.
  • Karas, A., Schoors, K., Weill, L., 2010, Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence from Russia, Economics of Transition, 18(1), 209-244.
  • Schoors, K., 2010, Lessen trekken uit de financiële crisis …en ernaar handelen, De gids op maatschappelijk gebied, 2010 (1), 11-16.

  • Merlevede, B., Schoors, K, Van Aarle B., 2009, Russia from Bust to Boom:
    Oil, Policies or the Ruble?     Comparative Economic Systems, 51, 213–241.
  • Merlevede, B., Schoors, K., 2009, Privatization and foreign direct investment in 10 transition countries, Post-Communist Economies 21(2), 143 – 156.
  • Austin, G., et al., 2009, Euro-Atlantic Security: One Vision, Three Paths, East-West Institute, 12 pages.

  • Kemme, D., Schoors, K., Vandervennet, R., 2008, Risk, Regulation and Competition in Banking and Finance in Transition Economies, Comparative Economic Studies, 50(2), 210-216.

  • Claeys, S., Schoors, K., Vandervennet, R., 2008, The Sequence of Bank Liberalisation: Financial Repression versus Capital Requirements in Russia, Comparative Economic Studies, 50(2), 297-317.

  • Schoors, K., 2008, Post-mortem van de zelfregulerende en efficiënte financiële markt, Samenleving en Politiek, 15(9)

  • Merlevede B., Schoors, K., 2007, On the speed of economic reform: Tale of the tortoise and the hare-Evidence from transition countries, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 10(1), 29-50
  • Claeys, S., Schoors, K., 2007, Bank supervision Russian style: Evidence of conflicts between micro- and macro- prudential concerns, Journal of Comparative Economics, 35, 630-657.

  • Klaus Weyerstrass, Johannes Jaenicke, Reinhard Neck, Gottfried Haber, Bas van Aarle, Koen Schoors, Niko Gobbin, Peter Claeys, 2006, Economic spillover and policy coordination in the Euro Area, European economy, Economic Papers, Number 246, March 2006.

2005

  • Schoors, K., Sonin, K., 2005, Passive Creditors, International Finance, 8(1), 57-86.
  • Schoors, K., 2005, Van recessie tot expansie, in Annemarie Gielen, editor, SOS Rusland, Van IJzeren Gordijn tot Rookgordijn, MO noord zuid cahier, 30(2), 15-34.

  • Mayer C., Schoors K., Yafeh Y., 2004, Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2004.

  • Schoors K., 2003, The fate of Russia's former state banks: Chronicle of a restructuring postponed and a crisis foretold, Europe-Asia Studies, 55(1), January 2003, 75-100.
  • Schoors K., 2003, The effect of Soviet monetary disintegration on the collapse of trade between members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Economic Systems, 27(1), March 2003,1-26.
  • Schoors K. and Sonin, K., 2003, Passive creditors, Ghent University working paper, 40 p.

  • Albrecht J., François D., Schoors K., 2002, A Shapley decomposition of Carbon Emissions Without Residuals, Energy Policy, 30(9), 727-736.
  • Schoors K., 2002, Should the Central and Eastern European accession countries adopt the EURO before or after accession?, Economics of Planning, 35(1), 2002, 47-77.
  • Mayer C., Schoors K., Yafeh Y., 2002, Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK, CEPR Discussion Paper, 3340, April 2002.
  • Mayer C., Schoors K., Yafeh Y., 2002, Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK, NBER Working Paper, 9645, April 2003.
  • Schoors K. and van der Tol B., 2002, Foreign direct investment spillovers within and between sectors: Evidence from Hungarian data., Ghent University working paper, 36 p.

  • Schoors K., 2001, The Credit Squeeze during Russia's Early Transition, A bank-based view, Economics of Transition, 9(1), 205-228.

  • Schoors K., 2000, Building a Database on Russian banks: Field Work against the odds, Post Communist Economies, 12(2), June 2000, 241-249.
  • Schoors K., 2000, L'euroisation des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale dans la perspective de leur adhésion à l'Union économique et monétaire, Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 31(4), 29-57.
  • Pavlov G., Schoors K. and Westin P., 2000, Economic programmes and policy: where is Russia heading? Russian Economic Trends, Monthly Update, January 2000.
  • Ivanova N. and Schoors K., 2000, The Central Bank Policy: Challenges for 2000, Russian Economic Trends, Monthly Update, March 2000.

  • Schoors K., 1999, The Mired Restructuring of Russia's Banking System, Russian Economic Trends, 4, 35-45.
  • Schoors K., 1999, The Credit Squeeze during Russia's Early Transition: A bank-based view, CEPR Discussion Paper, 2229, September 1999.
  • Schoors K., 1999, The spontaneous privatization of specialized state banks in Russia, Maandschrift Economie, 63, 295-309.

 
 
Chapters in books
 
  • Gobbin N. and Schoors K., Enlargement, in Peter Van der Hoek, ed., Handbook of Public Administration and Policy in the European Union, 2004 forthcoming
  • Schoors K., The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bank Restructuring in Russia, in Animitsa, Y., Pervukhina, I., Riem, S. and Schoors, K., eds., Russia in the changing world, Ekaterinburg, 2002.
  • Schoors K., 2000, Central and Eastern Europe and the advent of the EURO: The prospects of EMU-observer Status and unilateral Euro-isation, in Ooghe, Heylen and Vandervennet, eds, EMU, dé uitdaging, proceedings of the 24th VWEC, March 2000, Ghent, pp. 386-416.
  • Schoors K., 2000, Central and Eastern European Countries and the Advent of the Euro: is Euro-isation a good idea? in Ooghe, Heylen, Vandervennet and Vermaut, eds., The Economic and Business Consequences of the EMU: A Challenge for Governments, Financial Institutions and Firms, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts, pp. 269-300.
Conferences and seminars
   
2004
  • February (27-28), SUERF Workshop in Kiel, presentation at ZEI of Sophie Claeys, Gleb Lanine, Koen Schoors, Bank supervision Russian style: Rules versus Enforcement.
  • March (11-13), IAEC conference in Lisbon, Sophie Claeys, Gleb Lanine, Koen Schoors, Bank supervision Russian style: Rules versus Enforcement.
  • March (11-13), IAEC conference in Lisbon, presentation of Bruno Merlevede en Koen Schoors, Determinants of FDI in transition countries.
  • March (11-13), IAEC conference in Lisbon, presentation of Bruno Merlevede, Koen Schoors en Bas Van Aarle, A small Macro-economic Model for Russia.
2003
  • January 28, participation in colloquium "models of co-operation within an enlarged EU", organized by the National Bank of Belgium.
  • June (12-14), 24th SUERF colloquium "Stability and Efficiency of Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Talinn, presentation of Schoors and Vandervennet, "Rules versus discipline: Capital adequacy rules, monitoring incentives, and bank behavior in transition economies".
  • June (17), colloquium on the enlargement of the EU, organized by the Regional Investment Fund (GOM) Oost-Vlaanderen, the region of Oost-Vlaanderen and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Oost-Vlaanderen, invited speaker "The enlargement of the EU: Opportunitiy of threat: Strategic considerations for entrepreneurs".
  • July (4-6), CEPR Annual transition Conference in Budapest, discussion of Lihui Tian, "Financial Regulations, Investment Risks and Determinants of the Chinese IPO Underpricing", invited discussant.
  • August (15-16), ZEI and William Davidson Institute Conference, the Political Economy of Transition, ZEI, Bonn, Germany, discussion of the paper of Belke and Göcke, Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job creation and Destruction in the CEEC's., invited discussant.
  • September (11), invited speaker "Economische schets van de betrokken sectoren in Hongarije, Polen, Tsjechië, Slowakije en Slovenië" on an information session "Samenwerken met ondernemingen in Centraal-Europa" organized by the Gom and Export Flanders.
  • December (2), invited speaker "Hungary accedes to the EU: What will change?" for the Hungary Club of the Chamber of Commerce of East-Flanders.
  • December (10), invited presentation at ZEI of Sophie Claeys, Gleb Lanine, Koen Schoors, Bank supervision Russian style: Rules versus Enforcement.
2002
  • January 2002 (25-26), Plato Polska workshop for Polish SME in Poznan and Zielana Gora, invited speaker "EU accession of Poland Opportunities and threats for Polish SME's"
  • March 2002 (13-17), IAEC in Paris, presentation of "Financial regulation in Central Europe: The role of reserve requirements and capital rules".
  • April 2002 (4-5), First Yale School of Management Conference on Young Firms (Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Initial Public Offerings), presentation of Mayer, C., Schoors, K., Yafeh, Y., "Sources of Funds and Investment Strategies of VC Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK", forthcoming in Journal of Corporate Finance.
  • August 2002 (22-24), 17 th European Economic Association Conference Venice, Italy, presentation of Schoors, K. Van der Tol, B., "The productivity effect of foreign ownership on domestic firms in Hungary".
  • September 2002 (4), Research Day in Accounting, Antwerp, organized by Ghent University, University of Antwerp and K.U. Leuven, invited discussant of Vandenbussche, Konings and Rizov, Investment and Credit Constraints in Transition Countries: micro-evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania.
2001
  • 11-12 May 2001, second workshop of the ACE-project 'Monetary and Exchange Rate Strategies Related to the Current European Union's Enlargement Processes', at the Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Presentation of Schoors, K., "Should the Central and Eastern European accession countries adopt the EURO before or after accession?", published in Economics of Planning.
  • October 2001(26/27), CEPR-conference 'Understanding Financial Architecture: Corporate Governance', CEMFI, Madrid, presentation of Mayer, C., Yafeh, Y., Schoors, K., 2001, "Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds, Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK", forthcoming in Journal of Corporate Finance.
  • October 2001 (11-14), IAEC in Philadelphia, presentation of Schoors, K., Van der Tol, B., "The productivity effect of foreign ownership on domestic firms in Hungary".