On April 25-26, 2014 the Fourth International Scientific Conference "Development of National Economies In The Conditions of Global Instability" at Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University was held. Not only professors and students attended the conference, but also the representatives of foreign universities.

On November 14, 2012 Odessa Research Seminar in International Economic Relations took place at the Department. It was attended by the Department researchers and guest researcher professor Laszlo Halpern from the Central European University, Hungary.

Professor Laslo Halpern - a leading European specialist in the field of macroeconomics and international competition - came to I.I. Mechnikov ONU with a three-day visit in November 2012. Senior students and graduates of the specialty International Economic Relations attended lectures that covered the topics: “The main problems associated with accumulation of state debt in foreign currency” and “Procedure of macroeconomic imbalance – reacting to the crisis in the EU”. In addition, Laslo Halpern held a number of consultations with professors of the department of World Economy and International Economic Relations at ONU.

The Professor’s visit to the Odessa University was scheduled as part of a cooperation agreement between the Institute of Mathematics, Economics and Mechanics and the Institute of Open Society (Budapest, Hungary). Laslo Halpern is a professor of the Central European University and deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Hungary. Professor Halpern authored a range of different scientific research papers on the theory of the exchange rate, macroeconomic theory of stabilization, the behavior of companies in the world economy.