2014

These 10 projects were selected from a total of 72 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $700,000. A further 14 projects were given a chance to revise and resubmit their proposals to address specific concerns raised by external reviewers. These projects must be resubmitted by the end of January 2014 and any projects selected after that will be added to this list.

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 in RRC 14 were selected in December 2013 and work begins in early 2014. The deadline for project completion is December 2014, though we allow researchers a one-time, six-month no-cost extension, extending the final deadline to June 2015. The research teams will present their interim findings at a workshop to be held in August 2014 in Prague. The resulting papers from these projects will be made available as they are submitted.

Svitlana Omural
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
The Local Labor Markets and Board Composition

Andreea Maria Stoian
Department of Finance, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
The Study of Fiscal Vulnerability: Empirical Evidence for European Union Countries

Simona Mutu
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Contagion spillovers in the European banking sector. A macroprudential CoVaR approach

Marge Unt
Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia
The Effects of Macro-Societal Configurations on the Timing of "Involuntary" and "Voluntary" Early Retirement in Enlarged Europe

Jernej Mencinger & Aleksander Aristovnik
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Dynamics of Fiscal Policy Transmission Mechanism and the Effect on Economic Growth

Dmytro Vikhrov
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Welfare Effects of Immigration under Policy Coordination

Elvina Merkaj
South-East European Center for Economic Development (SECED), Albania
Regional Development Fund transfers to local government and state clientelism in Albania

Volha Audzei & František Brázdik
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Selected CEE Countries

Irina Momotenko
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Investigating the peer effect of corruption

Sergey Slobodyan
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Time-Varying Parameters Forecasting with Real-Time Data for Russia