2002

These 27 projects were selected from a total of 74 which were submitted with budgets totaling $1.5 million. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher is named.

Principal Investigator(s)
Sponsoring Institution
Project Title

Evgeni Peev
Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Currency Board, Corruption, and Corporate Governance Effects on Banks-Firms Relations in Bulgaria **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Boyko Nikolov
Centre for Economic and Strategic Research, Sofia, Bulgaria
Does macro-policy regime change bring about change in microeconomic behaviour? Access to bank finance and enterprise investment in Bulgaria before and after the introduction of a currency board**
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Katarina Ott & Helena Blažić
Institute of Public Finance, Croatia
Compliance and Administrative Costs of Taxation in Croatia **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 || 05 || 06 || 07

Djordje Šuvaković Olgin
The Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (CLDS), Serbia
Insider privatization and the labor market performance under competitive and monopolistic conditions **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || Completed Paper 02

Marko Simoneti
Central & Eastern European Privatization Network, Slovenia
Owner vs. seller effects on performance after mass privatization: Comparative empirical study of Slovenia, Czech Republic and Poland
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Timotej Jagrič
Faculty of Economics and Business University of Maribor, Slovenia
Leading indicators of aggregate economic activity for Slovenia **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Branko Milanović
G17 Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
Analyzing Determinants of Wages & Wage Discrimination **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Štěpán Jurajda
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
The Speed of Transition: Micro Evidence from the Czech Republic and Estonia
Summary of Findings|| Completed Paper

Sanja Tišma & Dario Cziráky
Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
Determinants of the Low SME Loan-Application Approval Rate in Croatia: A Latent-variable Structural Equations Approach **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Krešimir Žigić
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Some Recent Topics and Controversies in the Theory of Strategic Trade Policy
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Ülo Ennuste
Estonian Institute of Economics, Tallin, Estonia
Institutional Determinants of Convergence: Conceptual Frameworks and Empirical Studies of Estonian Institutional Harmonization and Socio-Economic convergence with the EU
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Attila Rátfai
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Microeconomic Price Adjustment and Aggregate Inflation
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03

Lubomír Lízal
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Effect of Enterprise Break-ups on Performance: Case of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Zbigniew Matkowski
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Composite Indicators of Business Activity for Poland
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Andrzej Baniak
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Macroeconomic Instability and the Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Gábor Kőrösi
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Risk Modelling from High Frequency Data
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Byeongju Jeong
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Understanding the Slow Pace of Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Transition Countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Mark Chandler
EuroFaculty, University of Vilnius, Lithuania
Economic policy under a quasi currency union
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03

Imre Fertő
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Intra-Industry Trade in Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Róbert Gál
TARKI Social Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary
Redistribution of Resources among Generations
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Lukasz Rawdanowicz
CASE, Warsaw, Poland
The choice of exchange rate regime and the real sector. What can we learn from the experience of transition economies?
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Jerzy Konieczny
CASE, Warsaw, Poland
The Welfare Costs of Inflation in Transition Economies
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Wojciech S. Maliszewski
CASE, Warsaw, Poland
Monetary Policy in Transition: Structural Econometric Modelling and Policy Simulations
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Radim Boháček
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Financial Intermediation and Development
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Suzana Pani
National Albanian Center for Social Studies (NACSS), Albania
Reducing Social Exclusion Through Social Protection Mechanism in Albania **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Jan Hanousek
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Measurement and Interpretation of Tax Evasion in Eastern European Countries, with particular emphasis on the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Theodor Popescu
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania
Change Detection in Nonstationary Time Series with Application in the Field of Economics **
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

** These projects benefit from a generous contribution to the East European regional research competition by the Austrian Government to support research in South Eastern Europe via the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (http://www.wiiw.ac.at)