28 Apr 2023

Mohammad Noori: Stock-Oil Comovements Through Fear, Uncertainty, and Expectations: Evidence From Conditional Comoments (MUES seminar)

10:00 AM

This paper investigates the dependencies and comovements between the S&P 500 and WTI by means of time-varying conditional comoments from April 1983 to December 2021 at the daily level. The conditional...

27 Apr 2023

Michal Soltes: Why Do People Commit Crime: Evidence from Inmates' Survey. (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This project aims to document inmates' knowledge, perceptions, and preferences and examine how they differ from the general population and how they change over time. The project will also test selected...

24 Apr 2023

Richard Priesol: Writing letters pays off: How to improve tax compliance quickly and efficiently? (MUES seminar)

4:00 PM

Merged data of changes in real estate ownerships from the Cadastre Portal of the Slovak Republic and databases of taxplayers from the Financial Administration of the Slovak Republic revealed many sold...

20 Apr 2023

Analisa Packham: Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Maltreatment (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

We estimate the effects of cash transfers on child well-being. To do so, we leverage program eligibility due to date of birth cutoffs and year-to-year variation in payment size from a universal and unconditional...

19 Apr 2023

Emanuele Padovani: The impact of the pandemic on local government financial vulnerability (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

The COVID-19 pandemic cut across geographical, sectorial and policy boundaries and imposed difficult health, economic and social challenges. Among many learnings, after the 2007/8 global financial crisis...

13 Apr 2023

Štěpán Mikula: The long-term impact of religion on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948,...

12 Apr 2023

Mattia Filomena: Unsafe temperatures, unsafe jobs: The impact of weather conditions on work related injuries (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

We estimate the impact of temperatures on work related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather conditions matched to administrative daily data on work related accidents. The identification...

6 Apr 2023

Jay Walker: Mental health and school entry age: Relative age effects within cohort (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

There is an established literature looking at the effects of school entry age and age within cohort on general well-being, social capital, and measures of human capital formation. in primary and secondary...

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Mohammad Noori: Stock-Oil Comovements Through Fear, Uncertainty, and Expectations: Evidence From Conditional Comoments (MUES seminar)

Michal Soltes: Why Do People Commit Crime: Evidence from Inmates' Survey. (MUES seminar)

Richard Priesol: Writing letters pays off: How to improve tax compliance quickly and efficiently? (MUES seminar)

Analisa Packham: Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Maltreatment (MUES seminar)

Emanuele Padovani: The impact of the pandemic on local government financial vulnerability (MUES seminar)

Štěpán Mikula: The long-term impact of religion on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia (MUES seminar)

Mattia Filomena: Unsafe temperatures, unsafe jobs: The impact of weather conditions on work related injuries (MUES seminar)

Jay Walker: Mental health and school entry age: Relative age effects within cohort (MUES seminar)