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2021

Social status in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Czech Republic over the past 15 years, and an international comparison

Authors: V. Korbel, D. Münich
February 2021

2020

The Unintended Effects of Parental Leave Policies

Authors: A. Bičáková, K. Kalíšková, L. Zapletalová
December 2020


The high costs of low literacy in the Czech Republic

Authors: J. Krajčová, D. Münich
December 2020


Grant support and doctoral studies: Analysis of the Grant Agency of the Charles University data

Author: Václav Korbel
October 2020


Personal Political Connections and Efficiency of Public Procurement Contracts in the Period 2007 - 2018

Authors: B. Baránek, V. Titl
September 2020


Retirement in the Czech Republic: the role of expectations and health status in international comparison

Authors: F. Pertold, M. Federičová
September 2020


Theory of Probability for Life

Interactive application in English - enter here.

Leaflet about the application with examples to be downloaded in PDF format here.

Authors: Taras Hrendash, Pavel Kocourek, Jiří Münich
June 2020


The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health

IDEA anti COVID-19 #22 | Authors: Vojtěch Bartoš, Jana Cahliková, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová


The different economic effects of the Covid-19 crisis on women and men in the Czech Republic

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 21 | Authors: Andreas Menzel, Martina Miotto


Health consequences of economic crises

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 20 | Authors: Kristína Hrehová, Štěpán Jurajda


Building capacity and preparing for the worst is sound economic policy: Recommendations for the coming weeks and months

The authors of the IDEA studies from the "IDEA anti COVID-19" initiative


BOOK OF ABSTRACTS: English summaries of IDEA studies from May 2019 to May 2020

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Startups during the Covid-19 pandemic: experience for Czechia from the USA

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 19 | Author: Petr Sedláček


The Covid-19 pandemic and socio-economic inequality in education

IDEA anti COVID 19 # 18 | Authors: Miroslava Federičová, Václav Korbel


How to reawaken the economy: Soothe, warm up, say some farewells

IDEA anti COVID 19 # 17 | Author: Filip Matějka

Macroeconomic policy during the coronavirus epidemic

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 16 | Authors: Marek Kapička, Michal Kejak, Ctirad Slavík


Serological tests for Covid-19 antibodies: What could they be good for?

IDEA anti COVID # 15 | Author: Ludmila Matysková


Using Bluetooth technology for COVID-19 contact tracing

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 14 | Authors: Ole Jann, Pavel Kocourek and Jakub Steiner (full study)


Short-time Work and Related Measures to Mitigate Consequences of a (Partial) Economic Shutdown to Mitigate Consequences of a (Partial) Economic Shutdown

IDEA anti COVID-19 #13 | Authors: Nikolas Mittag, Filip Pertold (full study)


Compliance with bans in the coronavirus period: enforcement must be effectively targeted

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 12 | Author: Libor Dušek


Collecting personal data for smart COVID-19 tracing: How to motivate people and not scare them off

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 11 | Author: Ole Jann


How should the government´s crisis measures be communicated? Through frequent repetition

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 10 | Authors: Václav Korbel, Vladimír Novák, Michal Šoltés, Lukáš Tóth


How best to communicate with the public? Findings from behavioural economics in the fight against COVID-19

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 9 | Author: Vojtěch Bartoš


Households´attitudes to infection and to the government measures: The latest survey data

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 7 | Authors: Václav Korbel, Vladimír Novák, Michal Šoltés, Lukáš Tóth


What behavioural economics can teach us about prevention: another way of fighting COVID-19

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 6 | Authors: Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová


The economics of testing for COVID-19: beware of greater damage than benefit

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 5 | Authors: Jan Kulveit and Jakub Steiner


Insolvency during the Coronavirus period: a proposal for temporary changes to the Insolvency Act

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 4 | Author: Tomáš Richter


Helping companies to maintain employment: fast, simple, economically meaningful

IDEA anti COVID-19 # 3 | Author: Daniel Münich


Study: Where do universities recruit researchers?

Interactive application: https://idea.cerge-ei.cz/files/RecruitingResearchers/

Authors: Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec
February 2020

2019

The consumption tax as a dichotomy: Source of public budgets and instrument of harm reduction (discussion paper)

Authors: Vladimír Novák, Michal Šoltés
December 2019


International comparison of school principals: Czech administrative hell

Author: Miroslava Federičová
November 2019


Private and Public Returns to Business R&D spending in Czechia

Author: Petr Pleticha
October 2019


Donations to Political Parties and Procurement Contracts: Evidence from the Period 2007 - 2014

Authors: Vítězslav Titl and Benny Geys
September 2019


Czech teacher´s pay: a new hope

Authors: Daniel Münich, Vladimír Smolka
August 2019


Stigma as a self-fulfilling prophecy? An experiment in the Czech prisons

Authors: Lubomír Cingl, Václav Korbel
August 2019


Teaching quality, education, economic growth and prosperity in the Czech Republic

Authors: Daniel Münich, Jana Krajčová, Tomáš Protivínský
May 2019


GLOBALIZATION OF SCIENCE: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin

Authors: Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec
May 2019


Employment effects of minimum wage increases in the Czech Republic

Authors: Jakub Grossmann, Štěpán Jurajda, Vladimír Smolka
April 2019


The school homework load in the Czech Republic and in international comparison

Authors: Václav Korbel, Daniel Münich
April 2019


A Comparison of Journal Citation Indicies

Interactive web tool

Authors: Daniel Münich, Taras Hrendash
March 2019


Electric car reaches space, but only makes it into the Czech Republic after a discount

Authors: Milan Ščasný, Iva Zvěřinová, Zuzana Rajchlová, Eva Kyselá
February 2019


How school report grades affect pupils´life decision

Author: Miroslava Federičová
February 2019

2018

The impacts of introducing the waiting period in 2008 for sick leave

The public policy study was written based on an academic article What if they take it all? Heterogeneous impact of sickness absence reform

Author: Filip Pertold
October 2018


An International Comparison of Economic and Academic Performance of OECD Countries 

Authors: Taras Hrendash, Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich
September 2018


The impact of higher wages of politicians on municipal elections

Authors: Ján Palguta, Filip Pertold
September 2018


The consequences of the postponed abolishment of super gross wages

Authors: Klára Kalíšková, Michal Šoltés
September 2018


Czech teachers´intellectual skills in international and generational comparison

Authors: Jana Krajčová, Daniel Münich
September 2018


Obesity in the Czech Republic: an international comparison using data from the SHARE project

Authors: Filip Pertold, Jiří Šatava
August 2018


Impact of parental benefits reform in 2008 on mothers´occupational allocation

Author: Barbara Pertold-Gebicka
July 2018


Senior guide: How not to lose income while taking early retirement

Author: Jiří Šatava
July 2018


Who does preschool (not) help? Experience from a series of reforms to early and preschool care in Germany

Authors: Filip Pertold, Lucie Zapletalová
July 2018


Higher teachers´salaries: Promises, promises, promises

Authors: Daniel Münich, Vladimír Smolka
June 2018


Who publishes in predatory and local journals? A different take on bibliometric analysis

Authors: Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec
June 2018


The low-skilled in the Czech Republic

Authors: Alena Bičáková, Klára Kalíšková
May 2018


Company names and their influence on company productivity

Authors: Jan Hanousek, Štěpán Jurajda
April 2018


What´s Behind the Grades on Czech School Certificates?

Authors: Daniel Münich, Tomáš Protivínský
January 2018


An International Comparison of Academic Publication Output and its Influence in Selected Countries

Interactive web tool

Authors: Taras Hrendash, Daniel Münich
January 2018

2017

Growth in individuals´disposable incomes between 2005 and 2015: whose income improved?

Authors: Petr Janský, Jiří Šatava
December 2017


Local journals in Scopus

Authors: Vít Macháček, Martin Srholec
December 2017


The effects of educational methods on pupils´results and socio-emotional abilities: classic vs. modern methods

Authors: Václav Korbel, Michal Paulus
November 2017


IDEA FOR THE 2017 ELECTIONS: Family policy in the election manifestos: and overview and breakdown

Author: Klára Kalíšková
October 2017


IDEA FOR  THE 2017 ELECTIONS: Pensions and pensioners in election manifestos

Authors: Filip Pertold, Jiří Šatava
October 2017


IDEA FOR THE 2017 ELECTIONS: Teachers´ salaries in Czech election manifestos: an overview and breakdown

Author: Daniel Münich
September 2017


Who is your mayor? Electoral competition and characteristics of political representatives in small Czech municipalities

Author: Ján Palguta
August 2017


Birds of a feather: the importance of selecting the right field of study for finding a partner

Authors: Alena Bičáková, Štěpán Jurajda, Lucie Zapletalová
July 2017


Teachers´low pay: a very expensive saving

Interactive application https://idea.cerge-ei.cz/platy-ucitelu

Author: Daniel Münich
June 2017


Seniors´income: work, retirement pensions and their valorization

Authors: Filip Pertold and Jiří Šatava
June 2017


Do direct subsidies stimulate new R&D output in firms? A comparison of IMPULS, TIP and ALFA programmes

Full study

Authors: Oleg Sidorkin, Martin Srholec
June 2017


Support of families with children: taxes, benefits and public services

Author: Klára Kalíšková
May 2017


Inside Beall´s lists

Authors: Vít Macháček, Martin Srholec
May 2017


Harsher prison sentences for murder? An impact evaluation of the legislative proposal

Authors: Libor Dušek, Jan Vávra

March 2017


Public financing for pre-school places pays off: a cost and benefit analysis

Full study

Authors: Klára Kalíšková, Daniel Münich, Filip Pertold

March 2017


Women and men in Czech R & D: Publication performance, productivity and co-authorship

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

March 2017


Predatory journals in Scopus

Full study

Authors: Vít Macháček, Martin Srholec

March 2017


Why European Women are saying no to having (more) babies

Authors: Mathiass Doepke, Fabian Kindermann

February 2017

 

2016

 

 

80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: Analysis of Czech energy industry development until 2050

Authors: Lukáš Rečka, Milan Ščasný

December 2016


Survey of preferences of people for climate change policies: Do Czech, Polish and British respondencs support  policy implementation?

Authors: Iva Zvěřinová, Milan Ščasný, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Eva Kyselá

December 2016


A global comparison of Czech and Slovak academic journals based on their Impact Factor (IF) and Article Influence Score (AIS)

Authors: Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

December 2016


The tax system reduces motivation to return to work among mothers wth young children: recommendations and evaluation

Author: Jiří Šatava

December 2016


 

Do direct subsidies promote private R&D Expenditure? Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design

Authors: Ján Palguta and Martin Srholec

November 2016


 

Predatory Journals in Scopus

Authors: Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec

November 2016


Political Competition in Local Governments and Public Procurement

Author: Ján Palguta

October 2016


Quality of Publication Output of Scientific Fields in Slovakia: An International Comparison

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

August 2016


Political Party Donors on the Public Procurement Market

Author: Ján Palguta

July 2016


A national comparison of the academic publicatin output of the Czech Academy of Sciences: quantity vs quality and co-authorship

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

June 2016


Divorces and women´s income: initial findings for the Czech Republic based on individual data

Authors: Petr Janský, Filip Pertold, Jiří Šatava

June 2016


Czech research centres´ publication performance in the period 2009-2013, by field of research

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

May 2016


Impact of Taxes and social benefits on income inequality and relative poverty in the Czech Republic

Authors: Petr Janský, Klára Kalíšková, Daniel Münich

May 2016


Self-Confidence of a Class and Competition of the Classmates for Eight-Year Gymnasium

Authors: Miroslava Federičová, Filip Pertold, Michael L. Smith

April 2016


Supporting Families with Children Through the Tax and Welfare System

Author: Jiří Šatava

March 2016


What does (a lack of) transparency in public procurement lead to?

Authors: Ján Palguta, Filip Pertold

March 2016


Public financing for pre-school places pays off: a cost and benefit analysis

Authors: Klára Kalíšková, Daniel Münich, Filip Pertold

March 2016


The Effects of Transition to Secondary School, Alcohol Consumption and Peer Pressure on Youth Smoking

Author: Filip Pertold

February 2016


An International Comparison of the Quality of Academic Publication Output in the Czech Republic


Attachment: Discipline Sheets

A full study including Discipline Sheets is available in PDF format here

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

January 2016


 

2015

 

 

Taxing Top Income Earners in the Czech Republic: An IDEA for Reform

Authors: Libor Dušek, Jiří Šatava

December  2015


Does Prison Overcrowding Loom Again? Predicting the Prison Population in the Czech Republic

Author: Libor Dušek

December 2015


An International Comparison of the Quality of Academic Publication Output in the Czech Republic

Authors: Štěpán Jurajda, Stanislav Kozubek, Daniel Münich, Samuel Škoda

December 2015


Wage Differences Related to Motherhood nd Children in the Family

Author: Mariola Pytliková

November 2015


Skills Mismatches in the Czech Republic

Author: Klára Kalíšková

November 2015


From maternity to unemployment: Women with young children returning to the labour market

Authors: Alena Bičáková, Klára Kalíšková

October 2015


Working Beyond Pensionable Age: Institutional Incentives in the Czech Republic

Jiří Šatava

September 2015


Czech research centres´publication performance in the period 2008-2012, by field of research

Štěpán Jurajda, Daniel Münich

September 2015


Teachers´pay: consistently low and unattractive

Daniel Münich, Mária Perignáthová, Vladimír Smolka, Lucie Zapletalová

September 2015


A Comparative Study of Retirement Age in the Czech Republic

Jana Bakalová, Radim Boháček, Daniel Münich

June 2015


The Point system and its impact on the number of fatal traffic accidents

Josef Montag, Lucie Zapletalová

Study, May 2015


(Non-)discrimination against female job applicants for maternity-related reasons: Experiment

Vojtěch Bartoš

Short Study, March 2015


 

2014

 

Civil Servants: Descriptive Study

Petr Bouchal, Petr Janský

Short Study, June 2014


Learning by torture or by play?

Miroslava Federičová and Daniel Münich

Short Study, May 2014


Who will benefit from the proposed increase to child tax credit?

Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Münich

Short Study, May 2014


Macroeconomic Forecast

Vilém Semerák

Macroeconomic forecast, March 2014


Preparing for the eight-year gymnasium: the great pupil steeplechase

Daniel Münich and Miroslava Federičová

Policy Study, March 2014


Women in the Czech financial sector from 1994 to 2012: New job opportunities for the young and educated.

Klára Kalíšková

Policy Study, March 2014


 

2013

 

The Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Implications from the Latest Results of PISA 2012

Daniel Münich and Tomáš Protivínský

Policy Study, December 2013


Tax on High Incomes: Reforming the Reform

Libor Dušek and Jiří Šatava

Policy Study, December  2013

Libor Dušek, Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Münich

Policy Study,  October 2013

Libor Dušek, Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Münich

Policy Study, October 2013

Jiří Šatava

Policy Study, September 2013

Ondřej Schneider and Jiří Šatava

Policy Study, June 2013

Ondřej Schneider and Jiří Šatava

Policy Study, May 2013

Pert Janský

Policy Study, May 2013

Martin Gregor

Policy Study, April 2013

Pavel Hait and Petr Janský

Policy Study, March 2013


 

2012

 

Could China Save Czech Export?

Vilém Semerák

Policy Study, December 2012

Petr Janský

Policy Brief, November  2012

Pavla Nikolovová, Ján Palguta, Filip Pertold and Mário Vozár

Policy Study, October 2012

Ondřej Schneider

Policy Brief, October 2012

 Ondřej Schneider and Jiří Šatava

Policy Study, October 2012

Vilém Semerák

Study for ERAK, September 2012

Vilém Semerák and Jan Švejnar

Study for ERAK, September 2012

Petr Janský and Zuzana Řehořová

Policy Brief, September  2012

Petr Janský and Zuzana Řehořová

Research Paper, September 2012

Daniel Münich and Jan Straka

Policy Brief, September 2012

Štěpán Jurajda and Daniel Münich,

Policy Study, August 2012 (revised in December 2012)

Libor Dušek

Policy Brief, August 2012

Daniel Münich, Peter Ondko and Jan Straka

Policy Study, June 2012

Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Münich

Policy Brief, May 2012

Libor Dušek and Petr Janský

Study for ERAK, April  2012

Petr Janský and Daniel Münich

Policy Brief, March 2012

Ondřej Schneider

Policy Study, February 2012

Petr Janský and Ondřej Schneider

Policy Brief, February 2012


 

2011

 

European Crisis from the Czech Perspective:

European Crisis: Monetary Disintegration and Its Impacts on the Czech Republic

Vilém Semerák and Jan Švejnar

Policy Brief, December 2011

Vilém Semerák and Jan Švejnar

Policy Brief, December 2011

Vilém Semerák

Policy Brief, December 2011

Ondřej Schneider

Policy Brief, August 2011

Petr Janský and Klára Kalíšková

Policy Brief, July 2011

Ondřej Schneider

Policy Study, May 2011

Ondřej Schneider and Libor Dušek

Policy Brief, May 2011

Jan Hlaváč and Ondřej Schneider

Research Paper, April 2011

Libor Dušek and Pert Janský

Policy Brief, March 2011

Libor Dušek and Pert Janský

Policy Brief, March 2011

Libor Dušek and Pert Janský

Policy Study, February 2011

Libor Dušek and Pert Janský

Preliminary Analysis, February 2011


 

2010

 

Impacts of Proposed VAT Tax Adjustments on Living Standards of Households

Libor Dušek and Pert Janský

Preliminary Analysis, December 2010

Libor Dušek, Vilém Semerák and Jan Švejnar

Policy Brief, September 2010

Jan Švejnar , Libor Dušek and

Policy Study, May  2010


 

2009

 

New member countries’ labour markets during the crisis. EU BEPA Policy Brief

Vilém Semerák and Jan Švejnar

Research Paper, September 2009