18. 11. 2016

Štefan Lyócsa: Stock Market Contagion in Central and Eastern Europe: Unexpected Volatility and Extreme Co-exceedance (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

14:00

The presentation shows recent evidence about the existence and size of contagion from the U.S. stock market to six Central and Eastern European stock markets. A novel approach to the measurement of contagion...

18. 11. 2016

Tomáš Výrost: Empirical approaches to the modelling of stock market networks (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

The talk focuses on the results of modeling stock market networks. In the first part of the talk, general principles of network construction are introduced and several common widely used graph-theoretic...

1. 11. 2016

Jakub Buček, Zlatica Konôpková: World Tax Index: What is the real tax burden? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

The World Tax Index (WTI) combines hard tax data available from world-respected sources and national tax laws with soft data expressing Qualified Expert Opinion (QEO). The QEO is gained from annual large-scale...

10. 10. 2016

Jitka Doležalová, Hana Fitzová: Transformation of Labour Market in Europe and Voting for Far-Right and Far-Left Parties (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

The literature suggests that there is a significant gender gap in the support of far right parties. Male voters exhibit a higher propensity to voting for them. The probability of voting for these political...

7. 10. 2016

Klaus Nowotny: Linguistic distance, networks and the regional location decisions of migrants to the EU (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location decisions of migrants to the European Union at the regional level. We find that networks have a positive...

6. 10. 2016

Andrew Smith: Rail passenger market opening: The British experience (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

16:20

European policy has focused in recent decades on liberalising Europe’s railway systems with a view to promoting competition and enhancing the performance of railways. Whilst legislation on passenger competition...

3. 6. 2016

Jakub Steiner: Optimal Perception Biases (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

11:00

We study perception biases arising under second-best perception strategies. Agent correctly observes all payoff-relevant parameters but cannot retain all the information until her decision. Evolution chooses...

2. 6. 2016

Stijn Baert: Sticky Floors: Due to Employer or Employee Preferences? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

17:00

During the last decade, economists have identified sticky floors in the labour market, i.e. the pattern in which women are, compared to men, less likely to (start to) climb the job ladder. Two studies...