2014
These 17 projects were selected from a total of 72 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. 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.
Principal Investigator(s)
Sponsoring Institution
Project Title
Svitlana Omural
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
The Local Labor Markets and Board Composition
Merima Balavac
School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Determinants of export diversification at the export margins in transition countries
Andreea Maria Stoian
Department of Finance, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
The Study of Fiscal Vulnerability: Empirical Evidence for European Union Countries
Viktorija Atanasovska
Association for Economic Research-STOKE Skopje, Macedonia
What determines the bank's market share in the Western Balkans? Is it firm or political economy determinants?
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
Aleksander Aristovnik & Jernej Mencinger
Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Dynamics of Fiscal Policy Transmission Mechanism and the Effect on Economic Growth
Tanja Broz & Tomislav Ridzak
International Graduate Business School Zagreb, Croatia
Links Between Zombie lending, Productivity and Employment
Zurab Abramishvili, Patrick Gaulé & Lasha Lanchava
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Evaluating the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers Through Regression Discontinuity: The Case of the Social Assistance Program in Georgia
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
Tomáš Klinger & Petr Teplý
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
The relationship between Sovereign and Bank Crises
Lubomír Cingl & Jindřich Matoušek
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
An Experimental Test of Design Alternatives for Spectrum Auction in Czech Republic
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
Suren Vardanyan
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Risk Aversion and Contagion in Experimental Stock Markets