Katarína Boďová: Learning principles of individual and collective behavior from data (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

10:30

Have you ever wondered how are colonies of ants able to efficiently search for food, birds or fish collectively defend themselves against predators by forming flocks or schools, and why crowds of people...

Jakub Lonsky: Gulags, Crime, and Violence: Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

10:00

This paper studies the origins and consequences of the Russian Mafia (vory-v-zakone). Using a web scraping method, I obtained a unique dataset that contains detailed biographies of more than 5,000 mafia...

Lothar Höbelt: Who Really Won World War I? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

16:30

So Germany was defeated in 1918 - and France seemed to have won. But of course, as we all know, it was the US who really won. But they did not like the result - and withdrew into what is often called "isolationism"....

Lucie Coufalová: Secessionism and Foreign Trade: The Case of Catalonia (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:30

The paper aims to determine whether the political conflict between Catalonia and Spain leads to higher foreign exports in the region. Empirical analysis, based on the gravity model approach, indicates...

Marco Faravelli: Rank incentives and social learning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

11:00

In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university stu- dents, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long on- line assignment. Within this setup,...

Ralph Bayer: Delegation Based on Cheap Talk (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

10:00

We study a real effort environment, where a delegator has to decide if and to whom to delegate a task. Delegating to a person who is better at the task increases welfare. Potential delegatees send cheap-talk...

Diya Abraham: Rejection stings! How does being deliberately chosen to be (less or more) relevant affect performance? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

14:30

with Ondřej Krčál

Previous literature has explored how agents respond to a signal of perceived distrust and shows that it lowers the agent’s motivation to act in the trustor’s (or principal’s) best interests....

Marie Claire Villeval: Unethical behavior: A matter of incentives and punishment? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

16:30

Dishonesty takes a variety of forms (tax evasion, corruption, book cooking, ...) and it has major implications for growth and trust in society. The standard "economics of crime" approach has shown its...