Martin Halla: Extractive Institutions: A Little Goes a Long Way. The Soviet Occupation of Germany versus Austria (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

(Coffee and cake will be available from 12:45 with the seminar starting promptly at 13:00)

Abstract: As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years....

Rainer Michael Rilke: Hierarchies and honesty (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

11:00

Every organization rests on hierarchical structures. In organizations hierarchies are essential to structure and delegate which agent is responsible for which kind of task, but also which agent in the...

James Alm: Is Economics Useful for Public Policy? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

9:00

Prof. James Alm is Chair of Economics at Tulane University in New Orleans. Alm’s most recent research areas include tax compliance and tax evasion, the marriage tax, tax and expenditure limitations, tax...

Barbora Chmelíková: Financial Decision-Making among Finance Students (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

Making sound financial decisions is an essential skill which can have an impact on life of each consumer of financial products. The aim of this paper is to examine decision-making concerning financial...

Štěpán Jurajda: What’s in a Name in a War (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:30

We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the fascist...

David Masclet: Discrimination in the Workplace : Experimental Evidence (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

17:00

We examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design.  Group identities are created and both employment preference rankings and wage offers favor in-group members.  Workers positively...

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

12:00

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 (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

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...