9 Oct 2015

Jana Válková: Childcare arrangements: Parental preferences in the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

The research explores how cultural values, policy arrangements and economic pressures influence the preference for childcare. We study the parents preferences towards the childcare arrangements of pre-school...

8 Oct 2015

Georgina Steinsky: Návrat firmy Baťa do Československa (MUES seminar)

12:50 PM

Přednáška/diskuse se týká okolností návratu firmy Baťa na československý trh. Majetek firmy Baťa byl znárodněn po roce 1945. Paní Steinsky byla pověřena zajištěním návratu firmy do Československa po roce...

21 Aug 2015

Štěpán Mikula: Property rights predictability and FDI (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

This paper deals with the role of predictability of property rights protection in source countries on the bilateral stock of foreign direct investments allocated in OECD countries. The poor predictability...

15 May 2015

Niclas Berggren: The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political...

7 Apr 2015

Libor Žídek: Jak fungovalo centrální plánování v Československu? (MUES seminar)

6:00 PM

Abstract: V době komunistické diktatury byl v Československu uplatňován model centrálně plánované ekonomiky. Přednáška bude hledat odpoveď na otázky, jaké byly základní charakteristiky tohoto modelu,...

3 Apr 2015

Dieter Pennerstorfer: Information and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Retail Gasoline (MUES seminar)

2:30 PM

We examine the relationship between information and price dispersion in the retail gasoline market. We first show that the clearinghouse models in the spirit of Stahl (1989) generate an inverted-U relationship...

26 Mar 2015

Ondřej Krčál, Michal Kvasnička, Rostislav Staněk: Do auctions improve public procurement? Evidence from the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Abstract: The paper explores the effect of different contract awarding procedures on the price of the contract. We provide a theoretical model that compares prices in different procurement procedures....

19 Mar 2015

Ondřej Krčál, Michal Kvasnička, Rostislav Staněk: External validity of prospect theory: Experimental estimates vs. evidence from football betting (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

Abstact: In this paper, we test whether the prospect theory parameters estimated from laboratory experiments correspond to behavior in betting markets. Using Czech sports betting data, we estimate the...

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Jana Válková: Childcare arrangements: Parental preferences in the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

Georgina Steinsky: Návrat firmy Baťa do Československa (MUES seminar)

Štěpán Mikula: Property rights predictability and FDI (MUES seminar)

Niclas Berggren: The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It (MUES seminar)

Libor Žídek: Jak fungovalo centrální plánování v Československu? (MUES seminar)

Dieter Pennerstorfer: Information and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Retail Gasoline (MUES seminar)

Ondřej Krčál, Michal Kvasnička, Rostislav Staněk: Do auctions improve public procurement? Evidence from the Czech Republic (MUES seminar)

Ondřej Krčál, Michal Kvasnička, Rostislav Staněk: External validity of prospect theory: Experimental estimates vs. evidence from football betting (MUES seminar)