Working papers
Working papers
IES Working Papers present work in progress of our faculty and students. Current field editors are Jozef Baruník (editor Finance), Lukas Vacha (co-editor Finance), Karel Janda (editor Economics), and Jaromir Baxa (co-editor Economics). The papers are available in RePEc. Send your submissions to IES Working Papers either to Jozef Barunik (Finance) <jozef.barunik@fsv.cuni.cz> or to Karel Janda (Economics) <karel-janda@seznam.cz>.
Since the majority of IES Working Papers are authored or co-authored by IES PhD students, the detailed instructions about submission to IES Working Papers are in the IES Handbook for Doctoral Students.
Please, when looking for details, kindly use RePec as the primary source, this IES page serves mainly as a landing page for the papers in .pdf (updated manually), not as an extra database.
2025
8 - The Elasticity of Substitution between Native and Immigrant Labor: A Meta-Analysis
7 - Temperature and Productivity in Soccer
3 - Inflation Differentials in the African Economic Community
2 - Does Bank Regulation and Supervision Impact Income Inequality? Cross-Country Evidence
1 - How Do Event Studies Capture Impact of Macroeconomic News in Forex Market? A meta-Analysis
2024
42 - Acceptability of Meat Tax and Subsidy Removal by Meat-Eaters: Insights from Five European Countries
39 - Global Minimum Tax and Profit Shifting
38 - US Equity Announcement Risk Premia
36 - Origins of Post-COVID-19 Inflation in Central European Countries
35 - Poverty in the Czech Republic: Unemployment, Pensions, and Regional Differences
34 - Economic Policy Uncertainty in Europe: Spillovers and Common Shocks
33 - Wartime Interest Rate Pass-Through in Ukraine: The Role of Prudential Indicators
32 - Impact of Ethanol Blending Policies on U.S. Gasoline Prices
31 - Where Do Multinationals Locate Profits: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting
30 - Exploring Institutional Determinants of Private Equity and Venture Capital Activity in Europe
29 - The Effect of Financial Transparency on Aid Diversion
28 - Does Childbirth Change the Gender Gap in Well-Being between Partners?
26 - Autoencoder Asset Pricing Models and Economic Restrictions - International Evidence
25 - Do Tax Havens Affect Financial Management? The Case of U.S. Multinational Companies
24 - The Optimal Investment Size in the Electricity Sector in EU Countries
23 - Money Talks, Green Walks: Does Financial Inclusion Promote Green Sustainability in Africa?
21 - Quantile Preferences in Portfolio Choice: A Q-DRL Approach to Dynamic Diversification
20 - Monetary Policy, Macro-Financial Vulnerabilities, and Macroeconomic Outcomes
19 - Distribution Strategy Planning: A Comprehensive Probabilistic Approach for Unpredictable Environment
17 - Interest Rate Pass-Through Asymmetry: A Meta-Analytical Approach
16 - Cost-Effectiveness of Women’s Vaccination Against HPV: Results for the Czech Republic
15 - Where Have All the Alphas Gone? A Meta-Analysis of Hedge Fund Performance
14 - Beauty and Professional Success: A Meta-Analysis
12 - Board Compensation and Investment Efficiency
11 - Board Bias, Information, and Investment Efficiency
10 - Does Shareholder Activism Have a Long-Lasting Impact on Company Value? A Meta-Analysis
9 - Climate Change, Large Risks, Small Risks, and the Value per Statistical Life
8 - Military Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis
6 - Female Leadership and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis
5 - Migration, Remittances, and Wage-Inflation Spillovers: The Case of Albania
4 - Profiling Cannabis Consumption Motivation and Situations as Casual Leisure
2 - The Effect of Face Masks on Covid Transmission: A Meta-Analysis
1 - Uncertain Trends in Economic Policy Uncertainty
2023
37 - Heterogeneous Effects of Government Energy Assistance Programs: Covid-19 Lockdowns in the Republic of Georgia
36 - Historical Calibration of SVJD Models with Deep Learning
35 - Unraveling Timing Uncertainty of Event-driven Connectedness among Oil-Based Energy Commodities
34 - Reducing the Biases of the Conventional Meta-Analysis of Correlations
33 - Profit Shifting of Multinational Corporations Worldwide
32 - Less-Cash or More-Cash? Determinants and Trends of Currency in Circulation in a Panel of 17 Economies
31 - High-Frequency Groceries Prices: Evidence from Czechia
30 - Fueling Financial Stability: The Financial Impact of U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard
29 - Artificial Intelligence and Central Bank Communication: The Case of the ECB
28 - Effectiveness of Car Scrappage Schemes: Comparative Analysis of European Countries
27 - The Impact of Dollarisation on Economic Growth, Investment, and Trade
26 - Exploring the Link Between Diet and Sustainability in Europe: A Focus on Meat and Fish Consumption
25 - Meta-Analysis of Social Science Research: A Practitioner’s Guide
24 - Good vs. Bad Volatility in Major Cryptocurrencies: The Dichotomy and Drivers of Connectedness
22 - Graph Theory Approach to Prices Transmission in the Network of Commonly Used Liquid Fuels
21 - Impact of Raw Material Price Volatility on Returns in Electric Vehicles Supply Chain
20 - Effects of Government Interventions on Bank Performance
19 - Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement
18 - Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Africa and OECD Countries
17 - Meta-Analyses of Partial Correlations Are Biased: Detection and Solutions
16 - Method Versus Cross-Country Heterogeneity in the Exchange Rate Pass-Through
15 - Does Monetary Policy Reinforce the Effects of Macroprudential Policy
14 - Drivers of Private Equity Activity across Europe: An East-West Comparison
13 - Fiscal Consequences of Corporate Tax Avoidance
12 - Public Procurement and Tax Havens
11 - Ossified Democracy as an Economic Problem and Policies for Reclaiming its Performance
10 - Beauty and Productivity in Academic Publishing
8 - Distributional Effects of Exchange Rate Depreciations: Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Thyself?
7 - The Impact of Regulatory Change on Hedge Fund Performance
6 - Does Heat Cause Homicides? A Meta-Analysis
5 - Spurious Precision in Meta-Analysis
4 - Effects of Corporate Transparency on Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting
3 - Concurrent Business and Distribution Strategy Planning Using Bayesian Networks
2 - Ex-Prisoners and the Labour Market in the Czech Republic
1 - Are Estimates of the Impact of Shareholder Activism Published Selectively?
2022
33 - Determinants of the Duration of Economic Recoveries: The Role of ’Too Much Finance’
32 - Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Support on Crop Diversity
31 - Impact of Biofuels on U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices: A Systematic Literature Review
28 - Financial Impact of Trust and Institutional Quality around the World
27 - Financial Incentives and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Economics Evidence
26 - Skill-bias and Wage Inequality in the EU New Member States: Empirical Investigation
25 - Non-Linearity between Price Inflation and Labor Costs: The Case of Central European Countries
23 - Income Elasticity for Animal-Based Protein and Food Supply
22 - Trade Networks in Main Czech Export Categories
20 - Green Bond Premiums in the Chinese Secondary Market
19 - On Empirical Challenges in Forecasting Market Betas in Crypto Markets
18 - Exchange Rates and the Speed of Economic Recovery: The Role of Financial Development
17 - Do EU-Wide Stress Tests Affect Insurers’ Dividend Policies?
16 - How Firms Survive in European Emerging Markets: A Survey
15 - Hedge Fund Performance: A Quantitative Survey
14 - People Are Less Risk-Averse than Economists Think
13 - The Excess Profits during COVID-19 and Their Tax Revenue Potential
12 - How Is the Career Choice of a Medical Speciality Dependent on Gender Inequality in the Region
11 - Fiscal Consolidation under Market’s Scrutiny: How Do Fiscal Announcements Affect Bond Yields
10 - Acquisition of Costly Information in Data-Driven Decision Making
9 - Crime and weather. Evidence from the Czech Republic.
7 - Meta-analysis: Fiscal Multiplier
6 - Wealth Survey Calibration: Imposing Consistency with Income Tax Data
5 - Price Transmission and Policies in Biofuels-Related Global Networks
4 - Yield Curve Dynamics and Fiscal Policy Shocks
3 - Robust Portfolio Optimization: A Stochastic Evaluation of Worst-Case Scenarios
2 - Impact of Regulatory Changes on Economic Feasibility of Distributed Generation Solar Units
1 - Parental Involvement and Education Outcomes of Their Children
2021
36 - Income tax noncompliance in Germany, 2001-2014
35 - Estimating Tax Progressivity in Developing Countries: The Plato Index
34 - "Wild" Tariff Schemes: Evidence from the Republic of Georgia
33 - Social Costs of Obesity in the Czech Republic
32 - Electricity Outages and Health Outcomes of Children: Empirical Evidence from Transition Economy
30 - Media Treatment of Monetary Policy Surprises and Their Impact on Firms’ and Consumers’ Expectations
28 - Student Employment and Education: A Meta-Analysis
26 - Illicit Financial Flows and Trade Mispricing: Decomposing the Trade Reporting Gap
25 - Impact of EU-wide Insurance Stress Tests on Equity Prices and Systemic Risk
23 - Labor Migration in the European Union: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
21 - Interest Rate Risk of Savings Accounts
20 - Regional Convergence in the European Union: What are the Factors of Growth?
19 - Forecasting Sovereign Bond Realized Volatility Using Time-Varying Coefficients Model
18 - Inequality in Pre-Industrial Urban Bohemia: The City of Budweis
17 - When Does Monetary Policy Sway House Prices? A Meta-Analysis
16 - Improving the Corruption Perceptions Index: Additional Data Sources and Their Effects
14 - Profit Shifting of Multinational Corporations Worldwide
12 - Who Benefits from Global Value Chain Participation? Does Functional Specialization Matter?
11 - Frequency-Dependent Higher Moment Risks
10 - Scenario Generation for IFRS9 Purposes using a Bayesian MS-VAR Model
9 - Bank Survival Around the World: A Meta-Analytic Review
7 - Price Level Targeting with Imperfect Rationality: A Heuristic Approach
6 - Currency Depreciations in Emerging Economies: A Blessing or a Curse for External Debt Management?
5 - Suspension of Insurers’ Dividends as a Response to the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Equity Market
4 - Common Agricultural Policy Beneficiaries: Evidence of Inequality from a New Data Set
2 - Multi-Horizon Equity Returns Predictability via Machine Learning
1 - Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Russia since the 2000s
2020
45 - Trading Volume and Stock Returns: A Meta-Analysis
44 - Consistency of Banks' Internal Probability of Default Estimates
42 - Selective Attention in Exchange Rate Forecasting
41 - Corporate Effective Tax Rates for Research and Policy
40 - Financial Crime and Punishment: A Meta-Analysis
38 - The Corporate Tax Haven Index: A New Geography of Profit Shifting
36 - Do Women Benefit from Minimum Wages?
33 - Business Cycle Sensitivity of Statutory Health Insurance: Evidence from the Czech Republic
32 - Publication and Identification Biases in Measuring the Intertemporal Substitution of Labor Supply
31 - A Survey of Empirical Literature on Hedge Fund Performance
29 - Skilled and Unskilled Labor Are Less Substitutable than Commonly Thought
27 - Exchange rate misalignments, growth, and institutions
26 - Labour Force Participation of Married Woman in Russia
24 - Peer Effects in Central Banking
23 - Premium Price For Natural Preservatives In Wine: A Discrete Choice Experiment
22 - Mortality shocks and household consumption: The case of Mexico
21 - Country-by-Country Reporting and Other Financial Transparency Measures Affecting the European Union
20 - Multinational Corporations’ Effective Tax Rates: Evidence from Orbis
18 - Beauty and Productivity: A Meta-Analysis
16 - Do Rural Banks Matter That Much? Burgess and Pande (AER, 2005) Reconsidered
15 - Globalization of Science: Evidence from Authors in Academic Journals by Country of Origin
14 - Natural Catastrophes and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis
13 - Credit Rating Downgrade Risk on Equity Returns
11 - The Effect of Inpatient User Charges on Inpatient Care
9 - Regional Determinants of Housing Prices in the Czech Republic
8 - ECB Monetary Policy and Commodity Prices
7 - Time-Varying Pricing of Risk in Sovereign Bond Futures Returns
6 - How Puzzling Is the Forward Premium Puzzle? A Meta-Analysis
5 - Nowcasting Real GDP Growth: Comparison between Old and New EU Countries
2 - Are Employment Effects of Minimum Wage the Same Across the EU? A Meta-Regression Analysis
1 - Cognitive Bias Mitigation: How to Make Decision-Making Rational?
2019
41 - The Progress of Global Financial Transparency: Evidence from The Financial Secrecy Index 2009–2018
40 - The Costs of Tax Havens: Evidence from Industry-Level Data
39 - Decomposing Multinational Corporations’ Declining Effective Tax Rates
37 - Partisan Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
35 - Remittances and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis
33 - Tax Treaties Worldwide: Estimating Elasticities and Revenue Foregone
32 - Heterogeneity of Returns to Business R&D: What Does Make a Difference?
31 - Multinational Corporations and Tax Havens: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting
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