2016

These 15 projects were selected from a total of 33 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $180,000.

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 16 were selected in December 2015 and work begins in early 2016. The deadline for project completion is December 2016, though we allow researchers a one-time, six-month no-cost extension, extending the final deadline to June 2017. The research teams will present their interim findings at a workshop in August 2016 in Prague. The resulting papers from these projects will be made available as they are submitted.

Principal Investigator(s)
Sponsoring Institution
Project Title

Dimitar Nikoloski
University "St. Kliment Ohridski"-Bitola, Macedonia
The impact of Foreign Direct Investments on labor market outcomes: The case of Macedonia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Ivan Žilić
Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
General versus Vocational Education: Lessons from a Quasi-Experiment in Croatia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Sherzod Tashpulatov
Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), Czech Republic
The impact of Behavioral and Structural Remedies on Electricity Prices: The Case of England and Wales Electricity Market
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Tamás Keller & Károly Takács
TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Effects of peer-based information campaigns on the transition-to-secondary-education decision
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Zoltán Bakucs, Zsófia Benedek & Imre Fertő
Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Success or Waste of Taxpayers' Money? Impact of EU Rural Development Policies upon Hungarian NUTS3 Region
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper || Completed Paper 02

Miroslav Zajíček & Lubomír Cingl
Prague Economics University (VŠE Praha), Czech Republic
Individual Speculative Behavior under Acute Stress
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Paweł Bukowski
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
School Competition and Sorting of Students Within a School
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Marina Tkalec
Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
Winter is coming! Or not? Policy evaluation in Croatian Tourist Cities
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Marcin Rataj
Institute for Structural Research (Instytut Badan Strukturalnych-IBS), Warsaw, Poland
Exploiting a business opportunity or escaping unemployment? The role of labor market career dynamics for entrepreneurial decisions.
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Kamila Sławińska
Institute of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Public-private sector wage gap in a group of European countries: an empirical perspective
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Attila Gáspár
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Assessing the economic impact of Sharia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Ágnes Szabó-Morvai
HÉTFA Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
A Cross-Country Analysis of the Impact of Childcare Systems on Maternal Labor Market Participants
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Ewa Lechman & Adam Marszk
Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
Reshaping financial systems - identifying the role of ICT in diffusion of financial innovations. Recent evidence from European countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Oleg Sidorkin & Dmitry Vorobyev
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Electoral Fraud and Political Cycles in Russian Regions
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

William Appleman
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Making Salience more Salient: Testing Tax Salience Effect Welfare Concerns