Journal Articles 2011–2015

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2015

Lanchava, Lasha, Kyle Carlson, Blanka Šebánková, Jaroslav Flegr, and Gideon Nave. 2015. “No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females.” PLoS ONE, 10(9): 1–17.
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Bagchi, Sutirtha, and Jan Švejnar. 2015. “Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43(3): 505–530.
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Jerbashian, Vahagn. 2015. “The Telecommunications Industry and Economic Growth: How the Market Structure Matters.” Economic Modelling, 51(December): 515–523.
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Katuščák, Peter, Fabio Michelucci, and Miroslav Zajíček. 2015. “Does Feedback Really Matter in One-Shot First-Price Auctions?.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 119(November): 139–152.
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Tashpulatov, Sherzod N. 2015. “Analysis of Electricity Industry Liberalization in Great Britain: How Did the Bidding Behavior of Electricity Producers Change?.” Utilities Policy, 36(October): 24–34.
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Steiner, Jakub, and Colin Stewart. 2015. “Price Distortions under Coarse Reasoning with Frequent Trade.” Journal of Economic Theory, 159, Part A(September): 574–595.
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Çelik, Levent, Bilgehan Karabay, and John McLaren. 2015. “When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority.” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(3): 347–389.
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Matějka, Filip. 2015. “Rigid Pricing and Rationally Inattentive Consumer.” Journal of Economic Theory, 158, Part B(July): 656–678.
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Muñoz, Viviana, Fabiana Visentin, Dominique Forey, and Patrick Gaulé. 2015. “Can Medical Products Be Developed on a Non-Profit Basis? Exploring Product Development Partnerships for Neglected Diseases.” Science and Public Policy, 42(3): 315–338.
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Novotný, Jan, Dmitri Petrov, and Giovanni Urga. 2015. “Trading Price Jump Clusters in Foreign Exchange Markets.” Journal of Financial Markets, 24(June): 66–92.
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Goedhuys, Micheline, and Martin Srholec. 2015. “Technological Capabilities, Institutions and Firm Productivity: a Multilevel Study.” European Journal of Development Research, 27(1): 122–139.
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Ambriško, Róbert, Jan Babecký, Jakub Ryšánek, and Vilém Valenta. 2015. “Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Measures on the Czech Economy.” Economic Modelling, 44(January): 350–357.
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Gillman, Max, Michal Kejak, and Michal Pakoš. 2015. “Learning about Rare Disasters: Implications for Consumption and Asset Prices.” Review of Finance, 19(3): 1053–1104.
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Hanousek, Jan, Evžen Kočenda, and Anastasiya Shamshur. 2015. “Corporate Efficiency in Europe.” Journal of Corporate Finance, 32(June): 24–40.
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Anderson, Simon, and Levent Çelik. 2015. “Product Line Design.” Journal of Economic Theory, 157(May): 517–526.
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Koman, Matjaž, Milan Lakičević, Janez Prašnikar, and Jan Švejnar. 2015. “Asset Stripping and Firm Survival in Mass Privatization: Testing the Hoff-Stiglitz and Campos-Giovannoni Models in Montenegro.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43(2): 274–289.
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Espinosa, María Paz, and Jaromír Kovářík. 2015. “Prosocial Behavior and Gender.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(Article 88): 1–17.
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Kapička, Marek. 2015. “Optimal Mirrleesean Taxation in a Ben-Porath Economy.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 7(2): 219–248.
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Engelmann, Dirk, and Nikos Nikiforakis. 2015. “In the Long-Run We Are All Dead: on the Benefits of Peer Punishment in Rich Environments.” Social Choice and Welfare, 45(3): 561–577.
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Geršl, Adam, Petr Jakubík, Dorota Kowalczyk, Steven Ongena, and José-Luis Peydró. 2015. “Monetary Conditions and Banks’ Behaviour in the Czech Republic.” Open Economies Review, 26(3): 407–445.
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Duží, Barbora, Dmytro Vikhrov, Ilan Kelman, Robert Stojanov, and Jiří Jakubínský.  2015. “Household Flood Risk Reduction in the Czech Republic.” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 20(4): 499–504.
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Matějka, Filip, and Alisdair McKay. 2015. “Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model.” American Economic Review, 105(1): 272–298.
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Jurajda, Štěpán, and Daniel Münich. 2015. “Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: the Czech Case.” Post-Soviet Affairs, 31(5): 448–469.
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2014

Horváth, Roman, Marek Rusnák, Kateřina Šmídková, and Jan Zápal. 2014. “The Dissent Voting Behaviour of Central Bankers: What Do We Really Know?” Applied Economics , 46(4): 450–461.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Evžen Kočenda. 2014. “Factors of Trade in Europe.” Economic Systems, 38(4): 518–535.
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Égert, Balázs, and Evžen Kočenda. 2014. “The Impact of Macro News and Central Bank Communication on Emerging European Forex Markets.” Economic Systems, 38(1): 73–88.
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Vikhrov, Dmytro, Robert Stojanov, Barbora Duží, and David Juřička.  2014. “Commuting Patterns of Czech Households Exposed to Flood Risk from the Bečva River.” Environmental Hazards, 13(1): 58–72.
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Engelmann, Dirk. 2014. “Coercion and Consent.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 170(1): 75–78.
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Hsieh, Chih-Sheng, Jaromír Kovářík, and Trevon Logan. 2014. “How Central are Clients in Sexual Networks Created by Commercial Sex?.” Scientific Reports, 4(Article 7540): 1–8.
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Montag, Josef. 2014. “A Radical Change in Traffic Law: Effects on Fatalities in the Czech Republic.” Journal of Public Health, 36(4): 539–545.
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Loeper, Antoine, Jakub Steiner, and Colin Stewart. 2014. “Influential Opinion Leaders.” Economic Journal, 124(581): 1147–1167.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Evžen Kočenda. 2014. “Factors of trade in Europe.” Economics Systems, 38(4): 518–535.
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Bičáková, Alena. 2014. “The Trade-Off Between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited.” Oxford  Economic Papers, 66(4): 891–915.
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Kalíšková, Klára. 2014. “Labor Supply Consequences of Family Taxation: Evidence from the Czech Republic.” Labour Economics, 30(October): 234–244.
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Srholec, Martin, and Pavla Žížalová. 2014. “Mapping the Geography of R&D: What Can We Learn for Regional Innovation Policy in the Czech Republic and Beyond?.” European Planning Studies, 22(9): 1862–1878.
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Popova, Olga. 2014. “Can Religion Insure Against Aggregate Shocks to Happiness? The Case of Transition Countries.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3): 804–818.
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Babecký, Jan, Tomáš Havránek, Jakub Matějů, Marek Rusnák, Kateřina Šmídková, and Bořek Vašíček. 2014. “Banking, Debt, and Currency Crises in Developed Countries: Stylized Facts and Early Warning Indicators.” Journal of Financial Stability, 15(December): 1–17.
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Christev, Atanas, and Sergey Slobodyan. 2014. “Learnability of E–stable Equilibria.” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 18(5): 959–984.
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Aslanyan, Gurgen. 2014. “The Migration Challenge for PAYG.” Journal of Population Economics, 27(4): 1023–1038.
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Marcellino, Massimiliano, and Yuliya Rychalovska. 2014. “Forecasting with a DSGE Model of a Small Open Economy within the Monetary Union.” Journal of Forecasting, 33(5): 315–338.
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Blanco, Mariana, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann. 2014. “Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-subjects Analysis.” Games and Economic Behavior, 87(September): 122–135.
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Kováč, Eugen, and Krešimir Žigić. 2014. “International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation: Trade Policy versus Free Trade.” Economica, 81(323): 491–521.
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Jeong, Byeongju. 2014. “Economic Growth in a Politically Fragmented World.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(2): 402–416.
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Lízal, Lubomír M. and Sherzod Tashpulatov. 2014. “Do Producers Apply a Capacity Cutting Strategy to Increase Prices? The Case of the England and Wales Electricity Market.” Energy Economics, 43 (May): 114–124.
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Çelik, Levent. 2014. “Information Unraveling Revisited: Disclosure of Horizontal Attributes.” Journal of Industrial Economics, 62(1): 113–136.
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Tsuchimoto Menkyna, Fusako. 2014. “A Theory of Ethnic Diversity and Income Distribution: A Legislative Bargaining Approach.” European Journal of Political Economy, 34(June): 52–67.
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Fagerberg, Jan, Maryann P. Feldman, and Martin Srholec. 2014. “Technological Dynamics and Social Capability: US States and European Nations.” Journal of Economic Geography, 14(2): 313–337.
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Vikhrov, Dmytro, Robert Stojanov, Barbora Duží, and David Juřička. 2014. “Commuting Patterns of Czech Households Exposed to Flood Risk from the Bečva River.” Environmental Hazards, 13(1): 58–72.
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Bauer, Michal, Julie Chytilová, and Barbara Pertold-Gebicka. 2014. “Parental Background and Other-Regarding Preferences in Children.” Experimental Economics, 17(1): 24–46.
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Bauer, Michal, Alessandra Cassar, Julie Chytilová, and Joseph Henrich. 2014. “War's Enduring Effects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-group Biases.” Psychological Science, 25(1): 47–57.
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Kolyuzhnov, Dmitri, Anna Bogomolova, and Sergey Slobodyan. 2014. “Escape Dynamics: A Continuous–Time Approximation.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 38(January): 161–183.
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2013

Cassano, Francesca, Karin Jöeveer, and Jan Švejnar. 2013. “Cash flow vs. collateral-based credit: performance of micro, small and medium-sized firms in transition economies.” Economics of Transition, 21(2): 269–300.
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Mathevet, Laurent, and Jakub Steiner. 2013. “Tractable Dynamic Global Games and Applications.” Journal of Economic Theory, 148(6): 2583–2619.
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Çelik, Levent, Bilgehan Karabay, and John McLaren. 2013. “Trade Policy-Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining.” Journal of International Economics, 91(2): 179–190.
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van Koten, Silvester, and Andreas Ortmann. 2013. “Structural versus Behavioral Remedies in the Deregulation of Electricity Markets: An Experimental Investigation Motivated By Policy Concerns.” European Economic Review, 64(November): 256–265.
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Břeský, Michal. 2013. “Revenue and Efficiency in Multi-Unit Uniform-Price Auctions.” Games and Economic Behavior, 82(November): 205–217.
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Tashpulatov, Sherzod N. 2013. “Estimating the Volatility of Electricity Prices: The Case of the England and Wales Wholesale Electricity Market.” Energy Policy, 60: 81–90.
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Pakoš, Michal. 2013. “Long-Run Risk and Hidden Growth Persistence.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(9): 1911–1928.
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Kapička, Marek. 2013. "Efficient Allocations in Dynamic Private Information Economies with Persistent Shocks: A First-Order Approach."  Review of Economic Studies, 80(3): 1027–1054.
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Gaulé, Patrick, and Mario Piacentini. 2013. “Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(2): 698–701.
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Filer, Randall K., and Daniel Münich. 2013. “Responses of Private and Public Schools to Voucher Funding.” Economics of Education Review, 34(June): 269–285.
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Babecký, Jan, Tomáš Havránek, Jakub Matějů, Marek Rusnák, Kateřina Šmídková, and Bořek Vašíček. 2013. “Leading Indicators of Crisis Incidence: Evidence from Developed Countries.” Journal of International Money and Finance, 35(June): 1–19.
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Steiner, Jakub, and Eugen Kováč. 2013. “Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems.” Games and Economic Behavior, 77(January): 298–320.
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Chen, Yan, Peter Katuščák, and Emre Ozdenoren. 2013. “Why Can't a Woman Bid More like a Man?” Games and Economic Behavior, 77(January): 181–213.
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2012

Sabirianova Peter, Klara, Jan Švejnar, and Katherine Terrell. “Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching up to the World Standard.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(4): 981–999.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Jan Novotný. 2012. “Price Jumps in Visegrad-Country Stock Markets: An Empirical Analysis.” Emerging Markets Review, 13(2): 184–201.
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Boháček, Radim, and Josef Zubrický. 2012. “A Flat Tax Reform in an Economy with Occupational Choice and Financial Frictions.” Economic Journal, 122(565): 1313–1345.
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Sákovics, József, and Jakub Steiner. 2012. “Who Matters in Coordination Problems?” American Economic Review, 102(7): 3439–3461.
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Dušek, Libor. 2012. “Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy.” German Economic Review, 13(4): 447–469.
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Engelmann, Dirk, and Veronika Grimm. 2012. “Mechanisms for Efficient Voting with Private Information about Preferences.” Economic Journal, 122(563): 1010–1041.
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Stančík, Juraj, and Timo Välilä. 2012. “Changes in the Fiscal Stance and the Composition of Public Spending.” Empirical Economics, 43(1): 199–217.
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Slobodyan, Sergey, and Raf Wouters. 2012. “Learning in a Medium-Scale DSGE Model with Expectations Based on Small Forecasting Models.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4(2): 65–101.
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Matějka, Filip, and Alisdair McKay. 2012. “Simple Market Equilibria with Rationally Inattentive Consumers.” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 102(3): 24–29.
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Bauer, Michal, Julie Chytilová, and Jonathan Morduch. 2012. “Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India.” American Economic Review, 102(2): 1118–1139.
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Engelmann, Dirk. 2012. “How Not to Extend Models of Inequality Aversion.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81(2): 599–605.
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Konečný, Tomáš, Josef Basl, Jan Mysliveček, and Natalie Simonová. 2012. “Alternative Models of Entrance Exams and Access to Higher Education: The Case of the Czech Republic.” Higher Education, 63(2): 219–235.
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Slobodyan, Sergey, and Raf Wouters. 2012. “Learning in an Estimated Medium-Scale DSGE Model.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36(1): 26–46.
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Bena, Jan, and Peter Ondko. 2012. “Financial Development and the Allocation of External Finance.” Journal of Empirical Finance, 19(1): 1–25.
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2011

Srholec, Martin. 2011. “A Multilevel Analysis of Innovation in Developing Countries.” Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(6): 1539–1569.
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Žigić, Krešimir, and Ilir Maçi. 2011. “Competition Policy and Market Leaders.” Economic Modelling, 28(3): 1042–1049.
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Malečková, Jitka, and Dragana Stanišić. 2011. “Public Opinion and Terrorist Acts.” European Journal of Political Economy, 27(S1): S107–S121.
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Žigić, Krešimir. 2011. “Does a ‘Non-Committed’ Government Always Generate Lower Social Welfare than Its ‘Committed’ Counter-Part? Strategic Trade Policy When Consumer Surplus Matters.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 39(4): 533–556.
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Hernando-Veciana, Ángel, and Fabio Michelucci. 2011. “Second Best Efficiency and the English Auction.” Games and Economic Behavior, 73(2): 496–506.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Evžen Kočenda. 2011. “Foreign News and Spillovers in Emerging European Stock Markets.” Review of International Economics, 19(1): 170–188.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Anastasiya Shamshur. 2011. “A Stubborn Persistence: Is the Stability of Leverage Ratios Determined by the Stability of the Economy?” Journal of Corporate Finance, 17(5): 1360–1376.
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Égert, Balázs, and Evžen Kočenda. 2011. “Time-Varying Synchronization of European Stock Markets.” Empirical Economics, 40(2): 394–407.
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Bubák, Vít, Evžen Kočenda, and Filip Žikeš. 2011. “Volatility Transmission in Emerging European Foreign Exchange Markets.” Journal of Banking and Finance, 35(11): 2829–2841.
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Brůha, Jan, and Jiří Podpiera. 2011. “The Dynamics of Economic Convergence: The Role of Alternative Investment Decisions.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 35(7): 1032–1044.
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Engelmann, Dirk, and Wieland Müller. 2011. “Collusion through Price Ceilings? In Search of a Focal-Point Effect.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 79(3): 291–302.
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Jurajda, Štěpán, and Daniel Münich. 2011. “Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3): 514–518.
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Bena, Jan, and Štěpán Jurajda. 2011. “Financial Development and Corporate Growth in the EU Single Market.” Economica, 78(311): 401–428.
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Pakoš, Michal. 2011. “Estimating Intertemporal and Intratemporal Substitutions When Both Income and Substitution Effects Are Present: The Role of Durable Goods.” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 29(3): 439–454.
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Blanco, Mariana, Dirk Engelmann, and Hans Theo Normann. 2011. “A Within-Subject Analysis of Other-Regarding Preferences.” Games and Economic Behavior, 72(2): 321–338.
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Gillman, Max, and Michal Kejak. 2011. “Inflation, Investment and Growth: a Banking Approach.” Economica, 78(310): 260–282.
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Commander, Simon, and Jan Švejnar. 2011. “Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(1): 309–337.
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Hanousek, Jan, and Evžen Kočenda. 2011. “Learning by Investing: Evidence from a Naturally-Occurring Auctions.” Economics of Transition, 19(1): 125–149.
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