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A Digest of CERGE-EI Research and Events
Located in Prague, CERGE-EI is dedicated to excellence and innovation in economic research and education. Chartered by the State of New York, CERGE-EI is a joint workplace of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, and is supported by numerous donors.
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Selected Journal Articles
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Crafting Consensus
Jan Zápal
Zápal analyses the problem of crafting consensus among committee members when the chair of the committee, who is typically the agenda setter, allocates favors at her disposal to increase the likelihood of her proposal gaining support. Using a theoretical model, he argues that the best way to allocate favors is to redistribute them evenly among a coalition of all committee members. Read more
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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
Kevin J. Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé, Eva Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani
How do search costs affect scientific collaborators? The authors present the results from a field experiment at Harvard Medical School where some individuals were randomly assigned to information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity. Their findings suggest matching is subject to considerable friction, even when scientists are working in the same institutional context. Read more
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Sentiment and Stock Returns - Anticipating a Major Sporting Event
Brian C Payne, Jiři Trešl, and Geoffrey C. Friesen
The authors examine the correlation between investor sentiment and stock returns by testing the effect of the Super Bowl on the stock returns of firms geographically related to the competing teams. They find economically positive abnormal returns in local stocks prior to the Super Bowl, as well as immediately after the event for businesses associated with the winning team. Read more
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Selected Working Papers
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Medical Malpractice: How Legal Liability Affects Medical Decisions
Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi
The overuse and underuse of medical treatments are equally dangerous, arousing concerns about implications for both patients and healthcare systems. Bertoli and Grembi examine the current relationship between medical liability and treatment decisions, considering theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidence, and offering guidelines for further research. Read more
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Electoral Contests with Dynamic Campaign Contributions
Andrea Mattozzi and Fabio Michelucci
The effect of campaign contributions on elections has been well studied, but the existing models do not reflect the dynamic nature of contributions. The authors develop a two-period principal/agent model and find that this generates predictions consistent with the dynamics of U.S. campaign contributions. The model can be applied to other settings, such as labor markets. Read more
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Do Teaching Practices Impact Socio-Emotional Skills?
Václav Korbel and Michal Paulus
The authors study the impact of modern teaching practices on the socio-emotional skills of pupils. Using data gathered in the Czech Republic, they find that these practices appear to have a significant impact on self-confidence, motivation and other socio-emotional skills of children. Standard practices, such as lecturing and memorizing, by contrast, have no measurable impact on socio-emotional skills. Read more
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Selected Dissertations
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Essays in Experimental Economics
October 2017
Tomáš Miklánek
Miklánek uses the tools of experimental economics to examine various behavioral aspects of decision-making. He considers decision-making in environments with information asymmetries, endogenous information selection or where monetary and non-monetary incentives interact. Better understanding of others’ motivations could help to predict the effects or to improve the design of different policies. Read more
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Essays on Remittances and Bribery
October 2017
Iuliia Kuntsevych
Kuntsevych explores issues of remittances in Ukraine and corruption in the Czech Republic. In Ukraine, she measures local dependence on money sent home by emigrants based on changes in recipient household spending patterns. For Czech firms she investigates levels of corruption and finds a negative correlation between market share and bribery levels. Read more
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Essays on Economics of Education and Social Policy
October 2017
Zurab Abramishvili
Abramishvili studies the impact on university enrollment rates of two government initiatives in Georgia: unconditional cash transfers to the poor, and the mass replacement in 2007 of school principals. Both had a positive effect. He also evaluates the broader impact of unconditional cash transfers, comparing the well-being of recipient and non-recipient households in Tbilisi. Read more
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At CERGE-EI
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Czech Educational Establishment Honors Prof. Christopher Sims
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CERGE-EI Researchers Awarded Exeter Prize
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European Research Council Awards Grant to Jakub Steiner
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Professor Christopher Sims 2011 Nobel Laureate for Economics, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Charles University in November. Professor Sims is John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University and a longstanding member of CERGE-EI’s Executive and Supervisory Committee. Read more
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The Exeter Prize is awarded by Exeter Business School for the best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics. The 2017 award went to four members of the CERGE-EI community: faculty members Michal Bauer and Filip Matějka, researcher Julie Chytilová and new Ph.D, Vojtěch Bartoš. Read more
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CERGE-EI researcher and senior faculty member Jakub Steiner is the first economics researcher in the Czech Republic to receive a consolidator grant from the European Research Council, the main EU funding organization for frontier research. Steiner receives the grant for his proposal, ‘Behavioral Implications of Information-Processing Frictions.’ Read more
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