Michal Ďuriník: Maximizing vs. Satisficing in decision making (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Abstract: Some people, called Maximizers, do not settle for good enough choices – they want to make sure what they select is the best. To discover the best options possible, they can exert large amounts...

Peter Molnár: Google searches and stock returns (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

We investigate whether Google searches can be used to forecast stock returns. We find that short-term (daily and weekly) increase in search activity leads to negative excess stock returns with subsequent...

Jaroslav Bil: Rocket and Feather Effect in Retail Gasoline Market : Evidence from the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

11:30 AM

This study investigate price adjustement in retail gasoline market in Czech Republic. Using weekly aggregated panel data of 1285 gas stations over years 2008-2013 error-corection model is estimated to...

Anca Covrigová: „Naše-vaše integrace“ aneb jak to vidí Češi (MUES seminar)

2:35 PM

Jedna z nejčastějších definic integrace (včetně integrace menšinových skupin do majoritní společnosti) vychází z konceptu oboustranného procesu. Jinými slovy, má-li být integrace úspěšná, je třeba, aby...

Jana Závacká: Endogenous Economic Cycles: An Agent-based Model Of Consumers’ Confidence (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to present consumers’ confidence as an important source of cyclical economic activity. We use a simplified agent-based model with a single production sector and...

Andreas Bergh: Explaining the labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. On average, the gap in labor market outcomes is larger in countries with more immigrant friendly attitudes....

Marco Maria Sorge: Indeterminacy, Misspecification and Forecastability: Good Luck in Bad Policy? (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

A recent debate in the forecasting literature revolves around the inability of macroeconometric models to improve on simple univariate predictors, since the onset of the so called Great Moderation. This...

Lenka Žváčková: Řízení operačních rizik pojišťovny (MUES seminar)

9:20 AM