2011

These 24 projects were selected from a total of 106 which were submitted with budgets totaling approximately $1,070,000. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher(s) is/are named. Each project also includes a notation mentioning the sponsoring institution and the project title.

The projects were selected in December 2010 and work begins in early 2011. The deadline for project completion is December 2011, though we allow researchers a one-time, six-month no-cost extension, extending the final deadline to June 2012. The research teams presented their interim findings at a workshop held on 7-8 August 2011 in Prague. The resulting papers from these projects will be made available as they are submitted.

Filip Matějka
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Rational Inattention: Signaling Capabilities of Price Systems and Implications for Policy
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Petar Stankov
University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Financial Crises and Reversals in Financial Development
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Anna Kochanova
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
The Impact of Bribery on Firm Performance: Firm-Level Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries

Ruslan Aliyev
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Developing Economies
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Lasha Lanchava
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Moral Sentiments of Family: Experimental Investigation of Intra-Family Interactions
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Sherzod Tashpulatov
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Can Producers Apply Capacity Cutting Strategy to Increase Prices? The Case of the England and Wales Electricity Market
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Olexandr Nikolaychuk
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Individual Learning under Asymmetric Information and Limited Environmental Feedback
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Fabio Michelucci & Miroslav Zajiček
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Behaviorial Market Design

Marjan Petreski
University American College - Skopje, Faculty of Business Economics and Org. Sciences, Macedonia
Trade performance after CEFTA 2006: Accounting for endogeneity of the free-trade agreement in two different empirical approaches
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Izabela Styczyńska
CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland
Trade-off between households' demand for declared and undeclared services in Poland
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Edlira Narazani
Albanian Centre for Social-Economic Research, Tirana, Albania
The impact of remittances on child health outcomes in Albania

Ágota Scharle & Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary
Impact assessment of targeted wage subsidies using administrative data
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Bruno Ćorić
University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Croatia
Determinants of Monetary Policy effectiveness: Worldwide Empirical Analysis
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Priit Vahter & Jaan Masso
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia
The role in experimentation with different export markets and products in explaining the growth heterogeneity of new firms
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper || Completed Paper 02

Engjell Skreli, Drini Imami & Edvin Zhllima
Development Solutions Associates (DSA), Tirana, Albania
Agriculture land rights in Albania and their impact on agriculture land market and investments
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Daniel Horn
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
Perverse effects of the Hungarian educational accountability system
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Alina-Nicoleta Radu
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Foreign Bank Participation and Fiscal Burden Sharing in Cross Border Banking Crises: An Assessment for Eastern European Countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Artur Pokropek & Maciej Jakubowski
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Evaluation of educational policy using twins data
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper || Completed Paper 02

Irena Kotowska, Marta Styrc & Martin Spielauer
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Late unions, less children? The impact of changes in union formation and dissolution on fertility in Poland in the 1990s
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Monika Mynarska & Anna Matysiak
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland
Women's Self-employment in Poland: A strategy for combining work and childcare?
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Cristiana Doina Tudor
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
An examination of the relationship between actual and perceived corporate governance and firm performance for Romanian exchange-listed companies
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

František Kopřiva, Pavla Nikolovová & Mário Vozár
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Let's Dance … With Someone Else? Empirical Evidence on Determinants of Match Separation
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Belma Pobrić
Center for Economic Development and Research (CEDAR), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ethnicity and provision of public goods in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Linking local governance to local development

Ilir Gedeshi & Esmeralda Gassie
Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Tirana, Albania
Interaction between family network and firm growth in Albania
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper