Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education - Economics Institute

Alumni Changing the World

Conference Program

Conference Sessions

Friday, October 7, 16:00–17:30 

Zvezda Dermendzhieva

“Returns to Education in Albania.”
ROOM 1

Ctirad Slavík

“Dynamic Insurance and Equal Bequests.”
ROOM 3

René Levínský

“Should I Remember More than You? On the Best Response to Factor-based Strategies.”
ROOM 4

Saturday, October 8, 09:00–10:30 

Gueorgui Kambourov

“Labor Supply and Government Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis.”
ROOM 1

Eugen Kováč

“Market Share Dynamics in a Duopoly Model with Word-of-Mouth Communication.”
ROOM 2

Jan Babecký

“Early Warning Indicators of Economic Crises: Evidence from a Panel of 40 Developed Countries.”
ROOM 3

Pavel Čížek

“Bias-corrected Least Absolute Deviation Estimation of Censored Regression Models.”
ROOM 4

Saturday, October 8, 11:00–12:30 

Daniel Münich

“Education and Skills.”
ROOM 1

Juraj Stančík

“EU ICT R&D Investment Gap (A Company Level Analysis).”
ROOM 2

Kamil Galuščák

“TFP and the Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation (joint work with Lubomír Lízal).”
ROOM 4

Pavlo Blavatskyy

“Stronger Utility.”
ROOM 5

Saturday, October 8, 14:00–15:30 

Alena Bičáková

“Gender Unemployment Gaps across EU: Blame the Family (Culture).”
ROOM 1

Miana Plesca

“Occupational Mobility and the Returns to Training.”
ROOM 2

Olga Popova

“Happines Adaptation to the Euro Adoption.”
ROOM 3

Andrey Timofeev

“Propensity to Invest and the Additionality of Capital Transfers.”
ROOM 4

Zuzana Fungáčová

“Does Competition Influence Bank Failures?”
ROOM 5

Sunday, October 9, 09:00–10:30 

Khanifa Rasulova

“The Impact of Migration on Politico-economic Institutions of Sending Countries.”
ROOM 1

Sherzod Tashpulatov

“Estimating the Volatility of Electricity Prices: The case of the England and Wales Wholesale Electricity Market.”
ROOM 2

Branislav Saxa

“Perception is Always Right: The CNB’s Monetary Policy in the Media.”
ROOM 3

Maksim Yemelyanau

“Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident: The Effect on Schooling, Labor Market and Health Outcomes in Belarus.”
ROOM 4

Silvester van Koten

“Does an Emission Trading Scheme Facilitate Efficient Abatement Investments? An Experimental Study.”
ROOM 5

Sunday, October 9, 11:00–12:30 

Dmytro Vikhrov

“Migration Costs and Determinants of Bilateral Migration Flows.”
ROOM 1

Jan Bena

“Strategic Investments, Technological Uncertainty, and Expected Return Externalities.”
ROOM 2

Karel Janda

“Bank Credit with Government Support.”
ROOM 3

Fusako Tsuchimoto

“Ethnic Diversity and Income Distribution: Theoretical and Empirical Approach.”
ROOM 4

Oleksandr Romanko

“Optimization in Finance and Risk Management.”
ROOM 5