Hovhannes Harutyunyan: Unveiling the factors of student mobility: The case study of Armenia (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

This research will concentrate on studying the major pushing and pulling factors that underlie the decisions of Armenian students to pursue education abroad.

Vilém Pařil: The Metropolisation Processes – A Case of Central Europe and the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

The contribution deals with the strategically important problems of metropolisation. In this context, it presents a theoretically based method of assessment of metropolises, the explanatory power of which...

Miloš Fišar: Do the politicians work for us or someone else? (MUES seminar)

12:45 PM

Vojtěch Bartoš: Contract enforcement and trustworthiness across ethnic groups: Experimental evidence from Northern Afghanistan (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

We study how the availability and use of an institution a financial sanction affects trust, trustworthiness, and moral intentions towards co-ethnics and non-co-ethnics using an economic experiment run...

Ben Greiner: Dispute resolution or escalation? The strategic gaming of feedback withdrawal options in online markets (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

Many online markets encourage traders to make good after an unsatisfactory transaction by offering the opportunity to withdraw negative reputational feedback in a dispute resolution phase. Motivated by...

Tommaso Reggiani: “Should I tell you / or should I not?” The (neutral) effect of Transparency on Information Disclosure Nudge (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

With the increasing popularity and application of the nudging concept, several ethical objections against it have also emerged. In order to contribute to the debate whether nudging is objectionable or...

Richárd Farkas and Biliana Yontcheva: Price Transmission and Market Power in a Vertically Integrated Industry: Evidence from the Hungarian Gasoline Market (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

The pricing behavior of vertically-integrated firms is a heavily investiga- ted topic in economic literature. While most research in this context focuses on network industries, the present paper investigates...

Ondřej Krčál, Rostislav Staněk: Killing two birds with one stone: Reducing fiscal and welfare loss of tax evasion (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Tax evasion constitutes a fiscal loss to the tax authority and a welfare loss for the society because it induces socially wasteful activities during which taxpayers spend real resources in order to hide...