2007

These 17 projects were selected from a total of 66 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $850,000. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher(s) is/are named.

Principal Investigator(s)
Sponsoring Institution
Project Title

Tigran Poghosyan
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Measuring Financial Market Integration in the New EU Member States: A Threshold Vector Error Correction Approach
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Jelena Helemae & Kadri Taht
Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia
Public Opinion on Social Mobility Opportunities in Estonia: Perception of the Role of Education

Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Price Convergence of the New EU Member Countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Boris Begović & Marko Paunović
Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (CLDS), Belgrade, Serbia
Political Economy of Enterprise Restructuring in Serbia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Roman Horváth
Institute for Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Inflation Persistence: Micro Evidence and Policy Implications for EU New Member States
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Michal Bauer
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
The Role of Education in Patience Formation in Poorest Countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Jan Brůha & Jiří Podpiera
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Global Imbalances and the Role of Intra-Firm Trade in International Policy Coordination
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Olga Rastrigina
BICEPS, Riga, Latvia
Family Interactions in the Making of Entrepreneurs in Latvia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Tanja Broz
Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
The Impact of Demand and Supply Shocks from EMU on Business Cycles of Central and Eastern European Countries
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills: Substitutes, Complements, or Independent Inputs?
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper || Tables & Figures

Aleksandra Gregorič & Katarina Zajc
Law Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Determinants of the Ownership Changes in the Post-Privatization Period in Slovenia and their Impact on Slovenian Corporate Governance
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

Andreja Jaklič
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Innovation Cooperation and Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Slovenia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Volha Belush
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
A Life-Cycle Model of Social Security with Endogenous Fertility
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Gábor Békés
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest
Absorptive Capacity and Productivity Spillovers for the Heterogenous Firms: Empirical Evidence from Hungarian Firms
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Katarzyna Zawalinska & Radoslaw Hoffmann
Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Comparative Evaluation Study of EU Rural Funds Management in Poland and Finland: National and Regional Economic Efects of New Rural Development Plans
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Oleksandr Stupnytskyy
Research Institute of Labor and Social Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic
Evaluating Training Programs for the Economically Disadvantaged: The Case of the Czech Republic
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Ivo Bićanić & Vojmir Franičević
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Entrepreneurial Deficits and Modern Economic Growth in Croatia
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper