14. 10. 2019

Lena Adamus: Why gender matters and how to approach it in economic research (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

14:00

The presentation introduces the issue of gender in economics. I will show why gender matters in economic research and how should it be investigated. I will discuss three working papers: one on the approaches...

11. 10. 2019

Stefano Fiorin: Reporting Peer Misbehavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

Reporting a peer’s wrongdoing to an authority is a morally controversial decision: re-porting will likely result in a punishment for the peer (and harming others is unethical), but the punitive action...

8. 10. 2019

Bernt Bratsberg: Economic and Political Integration of Refugees (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

16:30

The 2015 European migrant crisis shifted media and scholarly attention to the economic and political integration of refugees. During the MUNI lecture, Bratsberg will draw on his recent research on refugees...

13. 6. 2019

João Cerejeira: Where or Whom to Contract? An Empirical Study of Political Spillovers in Public Procurement (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

14:00

Abstract: OECD and other international organizations have been very keen in recommending principles and institutional safeguards to curb corruption and to enhance transparency and integrity in public procurement....

12. 6. 2019

Eyal Winter: Feeling Smart: Why our Emotions are More Rational Than We Think (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

16:30

"Feeling Smart" is the title of Eyal Winter's book that appeared 2015 with Perseus Books Group. The book deals with the relationship between our emotional being and our rational one, and the implications...

11. 6. 2019

Catia Nicodemo: Migration, Health, and Well-Being (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:15

Foreign-born individuals come with different health needs and different level of vulnerability. In the public debate today, immigration is often viewed as a threat to the access and the quality of health...

31. 5. 2019

Margaret Samahita: Wishful thinking about mood effect (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:30

There is increasing acceptance of the role played by mood in decision-making. However, the evidence of mood effect in the field, as proxied by external factors such as weather and weekday, is limited....

23. 5. 2019

Noemi Peter: Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution and by experimental task (Seminář z cyklu MUES)