2006

These 24 projects were selected from a total of 68 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $700,000. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher(s) is/are named.

Principal Investigator(s)
Sponsoring Institution
Project Title

Jozef Zubricky
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Flat Tax Reform: A General Equilibrium Model
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Cerasela Radu, Ana Bleahu & Cosmin Radu
Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania
Agricultural Enterprises Between Regional Markets and Local Communities: Networks of Production and Distribution in Southern and Central Romania
Project Cancelled Without Prejudice

Elena Kazakova
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Monopsony as a Source of Gender Wage Gap in Russia
Project Cancelled Without Prejudice

Constantin Colonescu & Cosmina Tanasoiu
American University in Bulgaria
Determinants of support for EU accession in Romania and Bulgaria
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Branislav Saxa
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Exporting Behavior of Firms and the Influence of Ownership: Are Multinationals Different?
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Anush Hakobyan
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Stability and Foreign Banks. Friends or Enemies?
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Eva Berde & Istvan Vanyolos
Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
The Impact of Institutional Changes on the Quality of Higher Education - Evidence from Hungary
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Danijel Nestic
Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
The Gender Wage Gap in Croatia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Hana Brůhová-Foltynová
Charles University Environmental Center, Prague, Czech Republic
Welfare Assessment of Passenger Transport Regulation in the Czech Republic
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Darja Borsic, Alenka Kavkler, Peter Mikek & Veronika Mitkova
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Modelling Economic Relationships Using Smooth Transition Regression: A Non–Linear Approach
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03

Julius Horvath
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Price Convergence in New Member States of the European Union: the Case of Hungary and the Slovak Republic
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Lolita Cigane
Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia
What Do Campaign Contributions Buy: Firm-level Evidence from Latvia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Jelena Jaukovic, Dragana Radevic, Darko Konjevic & Marina Milic
CEED (Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development), Podgorica, Montenegro
Enterprise Restructuring in Montenegro
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Piotr Krajewski & Michal Mackiewicz
University of Lodz, Poland
The Roots of Excessive Deficits in Poland - The Political Economy Perspective
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Dmitri Kolyuzhnov
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
The Role of Disability Pensions During and After Transition from PAYG to Multi-pillar Systems

Jana Arsovska
Euro-Atlantic Club of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
Changing Lenses: The Meaning of Violence and Crime in an Ethnic Albanian Context
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Mihai Copaciu
Public Policy Center (CENPO), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Survey Evidence on Price Setting Patterns of Romanian Firms
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Przemyslaw Wozniak & Wojciech Paczynski
CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
A Time-Frequency Analysis of Business Cycle Coherence between the Eurozone and the New Member States
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Malgorzata Jakubiak & Malgorzata Markiewicz
CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Capital Mobility and Tax Competition Between Old and New EU Member States
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Jan Falkowski & Maciej Jakubowski
CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Income Diversification and Education in Rural Poland
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Jan Bena & Štěpán Jurajda
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Financial Institutions and Corporate Growth by Firm Size: Evidence from Micro Data
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Zsuzsa Blasko, Erzsebet Bukodi & Peter Robert
Demographic Research Institute Budapest, Hungary
Selection in the Graduate Labour Market: Does Socioeconomic Background have an Impact? The Hungarian Case
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02