ULADZIMIR VALETKA was born on January 2, 1977 in Slutsk, Belarus. He obtained his B.A. from Belarusian State Technological University (BSTU) in 1999. In 2000 - 2001 he worked at the Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of the Economy of Belarus. Uladzimir Valetka finished his dissertation on "Industrial Restructuring in Belarus during Transition Period" and received the degree of candidate of economic sciences in 2002. He was the winner of the Stephan Batory Foundation Award for the Best Article on Regional Reforms in 2002. Since 2002 Uladzimir Valetka has begun his teaching activity in BSTU becoming an associate professor in 2007. In 2004 - 2005 he worked at the Center of System Analysis and Strategic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in 2009 - 2010 he was the National Consultant at UNDP project in Belarus and research fellow at CASE Belarus. In 2011 Dr. Valetka became a deputy director on science at Labour Research Institute of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus. He is currently the member of the International Society for New Institutional Economics.
Fields of scientific interests:
Economics of Transition
Reallocation and Industrial Restructuring
Transaction Costs and Property Rights Economics
Industrial Organization (L1, L2, L5)
Urban and Regional Economics (R1, R3)
Applied Econometrics
Recent projects:
"City Size Distribution Dynamics in Transition Economies: A Cross-Country Investigation"
Selected publications:
Valetka, U. The evolution of the cities’ size distribution in Belarus and Poland in 1970-2009: a rank-size rule and Markov chains analysis / U. Valetka // Selected aspects of transformation in countries of Central and Central-Eastern Europe / ed. by A. Kuczabski. – Pelplin: Bernardinum, 2010. – Р. 190–207.
Valetka, U. Geograficzny wymiar postkomunistycznej restrukturyzacji gospodarczej: przypadek Białoruskich miast / U. Valetka // Problemy zarządzania przestrzenią miasta i jego otoczeniem / red. R. Gotowski, H. Rabant, Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2010.
Valetka, U. Institutional barriers for industrial restructuring / The Geopolitical Aspects of the Transformation Process in Central and East-Central Europe / ed. by T. Michalski. – Gdynia–Pelplin: Wydawnictwo Bernardinum, 2006. – Р. 197–209.
Valetka, U. and Kalupaieu, U. An ideal economic model for Belarus / Belarus Reform Scenarios, Warsaw: S. Batory Foundation, 2003. – Р. 142–169.
Valetka, U. MEASURING ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED IN REAL ESTATE SECTOR IN BELARUS / Valetka, U., Siniak, N., Naurodski, S. // 17th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference, Milan, 23-26 June 2010 / Bocconi University. – Milan, 2010.
Naurodski, S. Comparative performance of Belarusian industries: the lens of Economic Value Added / S. Naurodski U. Valetka // Экономика, оценка и управление недвижимостью и природными ресурсами: материалы Междунар. науч.-практ. конф., Минск, 28−30 апреля 2010 г. / Белорус. гос. технол. ун-т. – Минск, 2010. – С. 29–41.
Valetka U. Investments and Restructuring of Industry in Belarusian Regions in Transition // Procesy akumulacij a konkurencyjność gospodarki. Zeszyt VI. – Białystok: WSFiZ, 2002. – Р. 161–164.
Valetka U. Tak lub nie dla reform? // Partner na Wschodzie. – 2002. – № 3. – Р. 39–49.
Working papers
Valetka, U. (2010), Explanation of the variation of the city size distribution among transition countries.
Necula, C., U. Valetka, M. Ibragimov, G. Bobeica, A-N. Radu, (2010), City Growth Rates in Eastern European Transition Economies, Paper submitted to the Journal of Economic Geography.
Necula, C., M. Ibragimov, U. Valetka, G. Bobeica, A-N. Radu, K. Mukhamedkhanova, A. Radyna, (2010), “City Size Distribution Dynamics in Transition Economies. A Cross-Country Investigation”, GDN Working Paper.
Valetka, U. (2009), EU-ENP trade liberalization and transmitted convergence: Does firms’ efficiency convergence imply regional convergence?
For publications in Belarusian and Rusian please see http://ekonomika.by/valetka
