NEWS: The deadline for submitting proposals to the Eleventh Regional Research Competition (RRC XI) passed on 01 July 2010.

The CERGE-EI GDN office will be closed for three weeks from 07 July.

Proposals which were submitted by the deadline will be processed to ensure that they are complete during the last week of July and we will send emails to all applicants to confirm this status by mid-August 2010. The projects will then enter the external review process, which will take place throughout autumn 2010, and it is expected that winners will be informed in mid-December 2010. Funded projects will run from 31 December 2010.

Details of the current (RRC X) and past rounds of the competition can be found in the chart below. RRC X Grantees will meet in Prague on 22-23 August 2010 to present their interim research results and discuss their projects with other research competition award winners.

Ongoing and Past Funded Research Projects

RRC X ---RRC IX ---RRC VIII ---RRC VII ---RRC VI

RRC V ---RRC IV ---RRC III --- RRC II --- RRC I

RRC X Grant Recipients (calendar year 2010) These 23 projects were selected from a total of 106 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $1,150,000. 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 Zane Cunska BICEPS, Riga, Latvia Analysis of Higher Education Student Population Using Mutistate Life Tables Mrika Kotorri Economic Development Group (EDG), Prishtina, Kosovo The optimal migration duration from the perspective of the individual: a comparison between Kosova, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Tamas Bartus Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest Birthrate Paradox: Fertility Patterns among People with Secondary Education in Hungary Julie Chytilova Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Formation of Other-Regarding Preferences Vilma Dingova Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic The Effect of Common Currency on FDI: The Eurozone Experience Nargiza Maksudova CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Restrospective Survey of Microfinance in Uzbekistan Ciprian Necula Bucharest University of Economics Macroeconomic Implications of Population Ageing and Pension Reform in Romania Edit Permeti, Isilda Shima & Edlira Narazani Albanian Center for Social-Economic Research Does the flat tax reduce informal employment in Albania? Gabriela Pasztorova CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Consumer Credit Risk Modeling and the Efficiency of Lending Policies Lucian Croitoru & Mihai Copaciu Romanian Center for Economic Policies (CEROPE) Household Saving in Romania: Evidence from Budget Survey Data Piotr Keblowski University of Lodz, Poland Are the New Member States on the fast track to the EMU? An analysis of exchange rates misalignments in Central European countries Ashot Tsharakyan CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Effect of rent deregulation on tenure choice and home ownership in the Czech Republic Aleksandra Parteka Faculty of Management and Business, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the enlarged EU Libor Dusek CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic How Much Intergenerational Risk Sharing do Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems Really Provide? Vladimir Benacek Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Trade Flows in Times of Boom and Slump: Czech Republic and Ireland Compared by Policy-Adjusted Gravity Model Attila Ratfai Central European University, Budapest Geography and Micro Level Real Exchange Rates: A Structural Investigation Ilir Gedeshi & Esmeralda Gassie Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Tirana, Albania Interaction between family network and firm growth in Albania Gabor Antal Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Wage Inequality and Firm Characteristics in Hungary: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data, 1986-2008 Dmitry Vorobyev CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Towards Detecting and Measuring Electoral Fraud Vitezslav Pisa Institute for Structural Policy (IREAS), Czech Republic Implications of biofuel promotion for a transition country Besnik Krasniqi & Durim Hoxha Business Support Centre Kosovo (BSCK) Entpreneurial Behaviour, Institutions and SME Growth: Evidence from Transition Countries Lenka Svejdova & Vojtech Bartos Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Discrimination, information and transaction costs in the Czech Rental Housing Market: Field Experiment Nermin Oruc & Silviya Nikolova International University of Sarajevo & Centre for Economic and Strategic Research, Sofia Urban Migration and Poverty: Comparison between Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina

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RRC IX Grant Recipients (calendar year 2009) These 22 projects were selected from a total of 74 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $900,000. 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 Zoltan Bakucs Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences The effect of EU accession upon Hungarian farm efficiency Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Peter Katuscak & Naomi E. Feldman CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Effects of predictable tax liability variation on household labor income Levent Celik & Esen Onur CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Determination of odds in prediction markets: Coexistence of posted-offer and double-auction designs Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Anna Lovasz & Mariann Rigo Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Who earns their keep? An estimation of the productivity-wage gap in Hungary 1986-2005 Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Gurgen Aslanyan CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Immigration and social security reform Mirjam Moravcova, Dana Bittnerova & Daniela Penickova Facutly of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Family and group strategies in the education of children in the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Arsena Gjipali, Ardiana Gashi & Nick Adnett Center for Sustainable Agriculture Studies, Albania Schooling and labor market outcomes - an empirical assessment of returns to education in Albania Konstantin Pashev Governance Monitoring Association, Bulgaria Corruption risks and drivers in the tax administration Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Petre Caraiani Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy The impact of fiscal policy shocks on Romanian economy and CEE countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Daniela-Luminita Constantin, Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea & Carmen Beatrice Pauna Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest Can cluster policies and foreign direct investment offer viable solutions to underdeveloped regions? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Filip Pertold CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Youth smoking in transition Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Natalia Shestakova CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Do firms have incentives to help consumers in making choices? The case of the Czech mobile [phone] market Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Andreea Maria Stoian & Emilia Mioara Campeanu Bucharest University of Economics Fiscal sustainability within EU area. Empirical evidences for old members and newcomers Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Barbara Gebicka CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Skill-upgrading of occupations and the college degree supply in Central European Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Katarzyna Growiec & Jakub Growiec Institute for Structural Research, Poland The impact of social capital on Central and Eastern European countries' economic performance: similarities and differences Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Judit Kalman Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Hungary Derangement or development? Political economy of EU structural funds allocation: insights from the Hungarian case Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Laszlo Paizs Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Competition in excise taxes among EU countries and its policy implications- an empirical investigation Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Maruska Vizek Institute of Economics, Zagreb Determinants of house prices in transition countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Magdalena Rokicka & Anna Ruzik Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, Poland Gender pay gap in unregistered employment in Poland Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Asel Isakova CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Financial sector development and dollarization in the economies of Central Asia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Robert Kelm & Michal Majsterek University of Lodz, Poland Inflationary consequences of globalization in Poland in pre- ERM2 period Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Evangelia Vourvachaki CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Patterns in Intermediates Use: A Comparative Study Between Europe and the United States Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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RRC VIII Grant Recipients (calendar year 2008) These 21 projects were selected from a total of 97 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $1,100,000. 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 Anze Burger & Matija Rojec University of Ljubljana, Slovenia International fragmentation of production and firm productivity: in search of focus effect Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Tanja Rajkovic & Maja Vehovec University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Technology followers and key competencies: Establishing competencies driving innovative performance and company competitiveness Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 Martina Vukasovic, Isidora Jaric, Predrag Lazetic & Natasa Pantic Centre for Education Policy, Serbia Identifying Factors of Low Efficiency of Studying in Higher Education in Serbia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Dukagjin Pupovci, Ardiana Gashi & Avdullah Hoti Kosova Education Center, Prishtina The interaction between human capital development and technological change: evidence from the Western Balkans Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Marta Orviska, Anetta Caplanova & Pavol Cizmarik Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia The relative importance of political and economic factors in individual well-being Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Irina Mozhaeva Baltic Institute of Social Sciences, Riga, Latvia Socioeconomic and psycho-emotional determinants of health in Latvia Arpad Rab Information Society Research Institute (ITTK), Budapest, Hungary Virtual and real economy - understanding the MMO worlds Completed Paper Jozsef Fogarasi Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility upon Foreign Trade of Romanian Agricultural Products Gabor Koltay Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences How much does your environment matter? Estimating demand with consumption externalities Krzysztof Szczygielski CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland Quality competition on EU-15 markets in 1995-2006: general assessment and the position of CEE exporters Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Almos Telegdy & Adam Szentpeteri Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Employment Concerns or Productivity Considerations? Political Selection of Firms into Privatization Programs: Evidence from Romania Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Zvezda Dermendzhieva CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Migration, remittances, and Labor Supply in Albania Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Narcis Tulbure & Delia Catarama Freedom House, Bucharest, Romania The Lamfalussy Process and Corporate Governance in the Investment Funds Industry: The Effects of Deregulation in Romania Summary of Findings || Paper 01 being updated || 02 Vesselina Russinova Institute of Psychology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Public opinion of women as corporate leaders in Bulgaria Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Anna Baranowska, Irena Elzbieta Kotowska & Michael Gebel Warsaw School of Economics, Poland The wage effects of fixed-term contracts in Poland Summary of Findings || Paper being updated Spring 2010 Marian Dinga CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic The Regional Distribution of FDI Inflows in the Czech Republic: District-Level Analysis Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Marian Krajc CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Are the Unskilled Really that Unaware? Understanding Seemingly Biased Self-Assessments Summary of Findings || Completed Paper || Data Frantisek Kopriva CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Source of Information Driven Trading on Prague Stock Exchange Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Katarina Kalovcova CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Policy Information Markets: Experimental and Theoretical Studies Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Filip Polonsky & Josef Novotny Dept. of Social Geography & Regional Development, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Perception of Islam and the World of Islam in the eyes of Czechs and Slovaks Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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RRC VII Grant Recipients (calendar year 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 || 03 Boris Begovic & Marko Paunovic Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (CLDS), Belgrade, Serbia Political Economy of Enterprise Restructuring in Serbia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Roman Horvath 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 Bruha & Jiri 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 Gregoric & 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 Jaklic 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 Gabor Bekes 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 Bicanic & Vojmir Franicevic University of Zagreb, Croatia Entrepreneurial Deficits and Modern Economic Growth in Croatia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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RRC VI Grant Recipients (calendar year 2006) These 24 projects were selected from a total of 68 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $700,000. 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 Jozef Zubricky CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Flat Tax Reform: A General Equilibrium Model Completed Paper Cerasela Radu, Ana Bleahu & Cosmin Radu Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Agricultural Enterprises Between Regional Markets and Local Communities: Networks of Production and Distribution in Southern and Central Romania Project Cancelled Without Prejudice Elena Kazakova CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Monopsony as a Source of Gender Wage Gap in Russia Project Cancelled Without Prejudice Constantin Colonescu & Cosmina Tanasoiu American University in Bulgaria Determinants of support for EU accession in Romania and Bulgaria Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Branislav Saxa CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Exporting Behavior of Firms and the Influence of Ownership: Are Multinationals Different? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Anush Hakobyan CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Stability and Foreign Banks. Friends or Enemies? Project Extended to Autumn 2007 Eva Berde & Istvan Vanyolos Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary The Impact of Institutional Changes on the Quality of Higher Education - Evidence from Hungary Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Danijel Nestic Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia The Gender Wage Gap in Croatia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Hana Bruhova-Foltynova Charles University Environmental Center, Prague, Czech Republic Welfare Assessment of Passenger Transport Regulation in the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Darja Borsic, Alenka Kavkler, Peter Mikek & Veronika Mitkova University of Maribor, Slovenia Modelling Economic Relationships Using Smooth Transition Regression: A Non–Linear Approach Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Julius Horvath Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Price Convergence in New Member States of the European Union: the Case of Hungary and the Slovak Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lolita Cigane Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia What Do Campaign Contributions Buy: Firm-level Evidence from Latvia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Jelena Jaukovic, Dragana Radevic, Darko Konjevic & Marina Milic CEED (Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development), Podgorica, Montenegro Enterprise Restructuring in Montenegro Completed Paper Piotr Krajewski & Michal Mackiewicz University of Lodz, Poland The Roots of Excessive Deficits in Poland - The Political Economy Perspective Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Dmitri Kolyuzhnov CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic The Role of Disability Pensions During and After Transition from PAYG to Multi-pillar Systems Jana Arsovska Euro-Atlantic Club of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia Changing Lenses: The Meaning of Violence and Crime in an Ethnic Albanian Context Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mihai Copaciu Public Policy Center (CENPO), Cluj-Napoca, Romania Survey Evidence on Price Setting Patterns of Romanian Firms Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Przemyslaw Wozniak & Wojciech Paczynski CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland A Time-Frequency Analysis of Business Cycle Coherence between the Eurozone and the New Member States Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Malgorzata Jakubiak & Malgorzata Markiewicz CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland Capital Mobility and Tax Competition Between Old and New EU Member States Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jan Falkowski & Maciej Jakubowski CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland Income Diversification and Education in Rural Poland Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jan Bena & Stepan Jurajda CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Financial Institutions and Corporate Growth by Firm Size: Evidence from Micro Data Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Zsuzsa Blasko, Erzsebet Bukodi & Peter Robert Demographic Research Institute Budapest, Hungary Selection in the Graduate Labour Market: Does Socioeconomic Background have an Impact? The Hungarian Case Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02

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RRC V Grant Recipients (calendar year 2005) These 36 projects were selected from a total of 115 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $1.6 million. 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 Evzen Kocenda CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Modelling Stock Market Returns and Volatility: The Case of Selected Industrialized and New EU Member States Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Nora Markova Foundation Democratic Future, Sofia, Bulgaria How Does the Introduction of Social Insurance Change the Equity in Health Care Provision in Bulgaria? ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mirjam Moravcova Facutly of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Analysis of the Inter-ethnic Relationship in Czech Primary Schools in Relation to Czech Educational Policy Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Julia Varga & Gabor Kezdi Budapest University of Economics and Business, Hungary Labour Demand and State-Provided Education in Hungary: Is there a Mismatch? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Victor Cosmin Dragota Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Corporate Governance, Minority Shareholders and Shares Prices on Emerging Capital Markets: The Case of Romania ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Lajos Z. Bakucs & Imre Ferto Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Price Transmission on Hungarian Agri-Food Markets Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Ivo Zhelev, Yana Georgieva & Anna Ionkova ESTAT, Sofia, Bulgaria Labour Market and Perspectives to Recent Higher Education Graduates in Bulgaria ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Przemyslaw Kulawczuk, Mieczyslaw Bak & Anna Szczesniak Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Warsaw, Poland Strategies of Tax Competition and Harmonization in EU-25 and Their Potential Impact on Net Transfers of European Union to "New" Member States Project Cancelled Ondrej Knot & Ondrej Vychodil CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic Bankruptcy, Debt Structure, and Debt Contracts: Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Alexis Derviz Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Exchange Risk Management of the Czech Koruna in the Process of Joining the Euro Area Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ivo Burger & Petr Sklenar CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic The Impact of the Slovak Tax Reform on Firms' Tax Evasion: A Comparative Study of the Czech and Slovak Republics Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Katarina Svitkova CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Corporate Charity Giving: Influence of Taxes and Company-Related Factors - A Three-Country Study Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Anna Vitaskova Institute for Social and Economic Anlayses, Prague, Czech Republic The Effectiveness of the Czech System of Public Higher Education in a Knowledge-Based Society: High Selectivity and Low Productivity and their Effects on Innovation Potential of the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jiri Vecernik Institute for Social and Economic Anlayses, Prague, Czech Republic Labor Market and Earnings Affects on Family Income: Disparities in Market Income and Household Disposable Income in the Czech Republic Between 1988-2002 Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Libor Dusek & Peter Katuscak CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Political Economy of Retirement Age Completed Paper Aaro Toomela Department of Psychology, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia Noncognitive Consequences of Education: Personality and other Noncognitive Psychological Attributes in Persons with Different Levels of Education Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Daunis Auers & Toms Rostoks EuroFaculty Riga - University of Latvia, Riga Student Employment and Higher Education in Latvia: Part-time Work or Part-time Study? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Evgenii Dainov Center for Social Practices, New Bulgarian University, Sofia Blockages to Education Reform in Bulgaria ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Fatmir Mema Albanian Socio Think-Tank (ASET), Tirana, Albania Competitive Advantage of Firms in Albanian Industries: Current Situation and Policies for their Progress in the Future ** Project Cancelled Without Prejudice Petra Luksikova-Ezzeddinne International Organization for Migration, Prague, Czech Republic Internal Restrictions in the Participation in the Czech Labor Market for Vietnamese & Ukrainian Ethnic Groups Completed Paper Alena Zemplinerova & Otar Gorgodze CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Education Subsidies and Skill-Based Technological Change in Central Europe Karin Joeveer & Peter Toth CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Financial Market Integration and External Finance Dependence: Evidence from a Eurozone Firm Panel Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lubomira Anastassova CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic The Role of Education and Family Structure in Immigrants' Location Choice Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Stepan Jurajda & Daniel Munich CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Czech Selective School System: Potential Discrimination Based on the Alphabet Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Eve Kikas Faculty of Education, University of Tartu, Estonia Individual and Contextual Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behaviour among Elementary School Children in Estonia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mariusz Jarmuzek Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, Poland Transparency of Fiscal Policy in Transition Economies Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Mihails Hazans Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia Demand for Education in Albania: Incentives and Obstacles Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Kresimir Zigic & Eugen Kovac CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation: Impacts of Trade Policies and Trade Liberalization Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ella Kallai & Mircea Maniu IDEE Foundation, Bucharest, Romania Direct and Reverse Causality Between Teacher Effect and Student Performance ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ellu Saar & Marge Unt Department of Social Stratification, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia Transition from Educational System to Labor Market in Transitional Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Uldis Cerps & Anete Pajuste Riga Business School at the Riga Technical University, Latvia Securities Laws Enforcement in Transition Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Vjacheslav Dombrovsky Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia Another Look at Informal Economics Using Car Registration Data for the Baltic States Project Cancelled Without Prejudice Milica Vukotic Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses, Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro Economic Costs of Tobacco Use in Montenegro ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mariana Kotzeva Association for Analyses and Co-operation, Sofia, Bulgaria Impact of Higher Education Reform on the Labor Market Performance of Youth in Balkan Countries ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ticu Constantin EuroEd Foundation, Iasi, Romania Controversial Event as a Source of Conflict and Polarized Social Attitudes: Research and Practical Application for Education ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

** These projects benefit from a generous contribution to the East European regional research competition by the Austrian Government to support research in South Eastern Europe via the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (http://www.wiiw.ac.at)

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RRC IV Grant Recipients (calendar year 2004) These 34 projects were selected from a total of 113 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $2 million. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher is named. Principal Investigator(s) Sponsoring Institution Project Title Julia Alasheyeva & Anete Pajuste Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia Corporate Governance, Ownership Change and Firm Performance in the Central and Eastern European Countries: an Empirical Investigation Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Przemyslaw Kulawczuk Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Warsaw, Poland Tax Competition and Harmonisation in Central Europe in European Union Pre-Accession Period Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Ondrej Schneider Facutly of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Fiscal Policy in Enlarged European Union: Rules vs. Discretion Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jan Hanousek & Filip Palda (ENAP) CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Measuring the Displacement Deadweight Loss from Corporate Tax Evasion in the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Libor Dusek CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Crime and Democracy - Accounting for the Growth of Crime in the Post-Communist Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Michal Kejak CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Credit Shocks and Real Business Cycles: From the Great Depression to the EU Accession Completed Paper Jurij Bajec & Nebojsa Savic Economics Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Measures of Phase I of the Accession of Serbia and Montenegro to the EU Within the Stabilization and Association Process ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Toma Stefania Research Center on Interethnic Relations, Romania Educational Measures for the Roma Minority in Romania. The Effectiveness of Integrated and Segregated Education ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Laszlo Szakadat Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration, Hungary Towards More Transparent Education Systems in Central Europe Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Marko Simoneti Institute for Economic Research (IER), Ljubljana, Slovenia Private and Shared Benefits (Entrenchment vs. Incentive Effect) of Managerial Control, Increasing the Level of Managerial Ownership and the Implications for Firm Performance. The Case of Slovenia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Jan Herczynski Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, Warsaw University, Poland Decomposing School Outcomes in Polish Sub-regions. Where Does the Quality of Human Capital Come From? Completed Paper 01 || 02 Stepan Jurajda CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Czech Returns to Schooling before the EU Accession: Does the Short Supply of College Education Bite? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lubomir Lizal & Andreas Ortmann CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Designing and Testing Incentive-compatible and Effective Anti-corruption Measures Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lukasz W. Rawdanowicz CASE, Warsaw, Poland The Enlargement of EMU: Differences in Relative Inflation Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Cristian Stanica Institute of Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania Adapted Models to Estimate Potential GDP in the Candidate Countries ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Laszlo Halpern Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest The Microeconomics of Technology Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from Hungarian Product-Level Data Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Imre Ferto Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest The Dynamics of Trade in Central and Eastern European Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Tania Gosselin Central European University, Budapest, Hungary The Determinants of Local Welfare in Hungary Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mihails Hazans Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia Choice of Education in the Baltic Countries: Was the Transition Effect Asymmetric? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Piotr Karp & Robert Kelm University of Lodz, Poland Fiscal Deficits and Exchange Rate Misalignment in Poland: An Econometric Analysis Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Zoltan Hermann & Daniel Horn Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary The Efficiency and Effectiveness of Hungarian Primary Schools Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Sorin Ionita Romanian Academic Society, Romania How Fair are the intergovernmental fiscal transfers in Romania? The political effects of the equalization grants and pre-university education earmarked transfers to local governments ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Alexander Stoyanov & Todor Yalamov Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), Sofia, Bulgaria Firms' Non-Compliant Behavior: Do Networks Matter in Bulgaria? ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Andris Kangro University of Latvia, Riga Quality Trends of Primary and Secondary Education in Latvia During Transition Period in the International and National Context Project Cancelled due to Non-Compliance Enejda Gurja Albanian Institute for International Studies, Tirana Tax Revenues and Tax Reform in Transition Albania** Project Cancelled due to Non-Compliance Alf Vanags Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Riga, Latvia The Private Sector in Higher Education in the Baltics: Permanent Feature or Transition Phenomenon? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Polona Domadenik University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Educational Policy Vs. Labour Market Flexibility: The Cure for Youth Unemployment in Transition Countries. A Comparison with the EU Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 D. Andrew Austin & Tatyana Kosyaeva CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Reform and Russian Attitudes Towards the Market: Evidence from Experimental Economics Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Boris Vujcic European Regional Science Association, Croatian Section, Zagreb Returns to Schooling in Croatia ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jelena Mihaljevic-Djigunovic Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia Reforming Foreign Language Education Policy in Croatia and Hungary ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Dario Cziraky Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia Financial System Development and Economic Growth in Transition ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Sergey Slobodyan & Viatcheslav Vinogradov CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Linking Education and Pensions in Transition Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Domagoj Racic Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia Croatian Innovation Policy and Its Effects ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ian Babetskii CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Trade Links, Synchronization of Shocks, and EMU Enlargement Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

** These projects benefit from a generous contribution to the East European regional research competition by the Austrian Government to support research in South Eastern Europe via the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (http://www.wiiw.ac.at)

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RRC III Grant Recipients (calendar year 2003) These 33 projects were selected from a total of 138 which were submitted with budgets totaling nearly $2 million. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher is named. Principal Investigator(s) Sponsoring Institution Project Title Maja Micevska Association for Socio-Economic Development, FY Republic of Macedonia Labor Market and Social Policies in Macedonia ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Kresimir Zigic CERGE-EI, Czech Republic The Impact of Tariff Protection on FDI in Developing and Transition Countries: Is the Tariff Jumping Argument Working for these Countries? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Mark Chandler EuroFaculty Vilnius Centre, Lithuania The Education Policy Autonomy of Lithuanian Local Authorities Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Daniel Pop Civitas Foundation for Civil Society, Romania The Effect of Uneven Development on the Ethnic Composition of Ethnically Mixed Regions ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mihails Hazans Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Latvia Commuting in the Baltic Labor markets: Patterns, Determinants, Individual and Social Gains Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Pal Gaspar International Centre for Economic Growth European Center, Hungary Floating Exchange Rate Agreement and EMU Membership in Pre-Accession Economies Project Cancelled due to Non-Compliance Rafal Piwowarski Institute of Public Affairs, Poland Factors Conditioning Educational Achievement Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Adrian Miroiu National School for Political Studies & Public Administration, Romania Funding Systems and Institutional Structure and Performance in the Higher Education Reform Process: An Institutional Analysis Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Daniel Munich CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Impact of Schooling Reform on Enrolment, Quality, and Inequlities of Graduates: New Evidence from the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Vesselin Mintchev Center for Comparative Studies, Bulgaria Estimating Potential Emigration from Bulgaria: The Case of an EU Candidate Country ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Oleksandr Stupnytskyy CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Secondary Schools Efficiency in the Czech Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Juraj Valachy CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Exchange Rate Stability of the EMS and CE Countries: Comparative Study Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Galyna Vereshchagina CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Education, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Petr Mateju Institute for Social and Economic Analysis (ISEA), Czech Republic Cost-Sharing and Accessibility of Higher Education: Conflicting or Compatible Goals Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Jiri Podpiera & Martin Cincibuch CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Assessing Real Appreciation in EU Accession Candidates: Measurement of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates Disparities Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lindita Lati & Saimir Sallaku The Public-Private Finance Institute (PPFI), Albania Ownership Structure Impact on Enterprise Behaviour - The Case of Albanian Privatised Enterprises ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Polona Domadenik University of Ljubljana, Economics Faculty, Slovenia The Impact of Education and training Systems on the Labour Market Participation of Young People in CEE Economies: a Comparison with the EU Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Radim Valencik Institute for Social and Economic Analysis (ISEA), Czech Republic The Czech Pension System Reform Based on Complemental Conversion Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Petr Duczynski University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Fundamental Aspects of Net External Assets Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 Zlatuse Komarkova University of Economics-Prague, Czech Republic The Currency Substitution in Transition Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Artur Radziwill Center for Social and Political Research (CASE), Poland Transparency in Monetary policy in EU Accession Countries: Emperical Investigation Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Alf Vanags Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Latvia Contract Enforcement and Enterprise Behavior: Theory and Evidence from the Baltic States Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Liviu Chelcea The Humanist Foundation for Regional Development and Excellence, Romania 90% Off the Books: Corruption and the Informal Economy of Alcohol in Romania ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Silviya Gerdzhikova University of Plovdiv "Paisiy Hilendarski", Bulgaria A Comparative Study of English Language Education in Bulgarian Primary Schools Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lucian-Liviu Albu Institute of Economic Forecasting, Romania Tax Evasion, Underground Economy and Fiscal Policies in Candidate Countries ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Peter Benczur Central European University, Dept of Political Science, Hungary Economic Fluctuations in Central and Eastern Europe Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Julia Varga Budapest University of Economic Sciences & Public Administration, Hungary Demand for and Labour Market Outcome of Higher Education in Hungary Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 Laszlo Bruszt Central European University, Hungary Explaining the Dynamics of Institutional Change. Policy Choices and Economic Outcomes During Post-Communist Transition Tihomira Trifonova Institute for Politics & Public Communications, Bulgaria The Reform Process: How Cultural Organizations Have Adapted to the Changed Circumstances Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Nikolay Markov Center for Economic and Strategic Research, Bulgaria Market Structure and Firms' Pricing Behavior (A comparative analysis of Bulgarian and Hungarian manufacturing firms) ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jose Noguera CERGE-EI, Czech Republic Policy Management, Welfare and Barter in Russia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Ella Kallai Asociatia IDEE, Romania Input Efficiency in Publicly Provided Education: The Case of Romania Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Bianca Pauna Centrul Roman de Modelare Economica, Romania Modelling the Participation of Households and Firms in Informal Economic Activities - Lessons from the Transition Economies ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

** These projects benefit from a generous contribution to the East European regional research competition by the Austrian Government to support research in South Eastern Europe via the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (http://www.wiiw.ac.at)

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RRC II Grant Recipients (calendar year 2002) These 27 projects were selected from a total of 74 which were submitted with budgets totaling $1.5 million. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher is named. Principal Investigator(s) Sponsoring Institution Project Title Evgeni Peev Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Currency Board, Corruption, and Corporate Governance Effects on Banks-Firms Relations in Bulgaria ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Boyko Nikolov Centre for Economic and Strategic Research, Bulgaria Does macro-policy regime change bring about change in microeconomic behaviour? Access to bank finance and enterprise investment in Bulgaria before and after the introduction of a currency board** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Katarina Ott & Helena Blazic Institute of Public Finance, Croatia Compliance and Administrative Costs of Taxation in Croatia ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 || 05 || 06 || 07 Djordje Suvakovic Olgin The Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (CLDS), Serbia Insider privatization and the labor market performance under competitive and monopolistic conditions ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || Completed Paper 02 Marko Simoneti Central & Eastern European Privatization Network, Slovenia Owner vs. seller effects on performance after mass privatization: Comparative empirical study of Slovenia, Czech Republic and Poland Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Timotej Jagric Faculty of Economics and Business University of Maribor, Slovenia Leading indicators of aggregate economic activity for Slovenia ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Branko Milanovic G17 Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Analyzing Determinants of Wages & Wage Discrimination ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Stepan Jurajda CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic The Speed of Transition: Micro Evidence from the Czech Republic and Estonia Summary of Findings|| Completed Paper Sanja Tisma & Dario Cziraky Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia Determinants of the Low SME Loan-Application Approval Rate in Croatia: A Latent-variable Structural Equations Approach ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Kresimir Zigic CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Some Recent Topics and Controversies in the Theory of Strategic Trade Policy Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Ulo Ennuste Estonian Institute of Economics, Tallin, Estonia Institutional Determinants of Convergence: Conceptual Frameworks and Empirical Studies of Estonian Institutional Harmonization and Socio-Economic convergence with the EU Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Attila Ratfai Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Microeconomic Price Adjustment and Aggregate Inflation Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Lubomir Lizal CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Effect of Enterprise Break-ups on Performance: Case of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Zbigniew Matkowski Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Composite Indicators of Business Activity for Poland Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Andrzej Baniak Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Macroeconomic Instability and the Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Gabor Korosi Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Risk Modelling from High Frequency Data Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Byeongju Jeong CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Understanding the Slow Pace of Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Transition Countries Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Mark Chandler EuroFaculty, University of Vilnius, Lithuania Economic policy under a quasi currency union Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Imre Ferto Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Intra-Industry Trade in Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Robert Gal TARKI Social Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary Redistribution of Resources among Generations Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Lukasz Rawdanowicz CASE, Warsaw, Poland The choice of exchange rate regime and the real sector. What can we learn from the experience of transition economies? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jerzy Konieczny CASE, Warsaw, Poland The Welfare Costs of Inflation in Transition Economies Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Wojciech S. Maliszewski CASE, Warsaw, Poland Monetary Policy in Transition: Structural Econometric Modelling and Policy Simulations Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Radim Bohacek CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Financial Intermediation and Development Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Suzana Pani National Albanian Center for Social Studies (NACSS), Albania Reducing Social Exclusion Through Social Protection Mechanism in Albania ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Jan Hanousek CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Measurement and Interpretation of Tax Evasion in Eastern European Countries, with particular emphasis on the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Theodor Popescu National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania Change Detection in Nonstationary Time Series with Application in the Field of Economics ** Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

** These projects benefit from a generous contribution to the East European regional research competition by the Austrian Government to support research in South Eastern Europe via the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (http://www.wiiw.ac.at)

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RRC I Grant Recipients (calendar year 2001) These 15 awardees were selected from a total of 64 proposals with budgets totaling $1.4 million. Note that in cases where the award was made to a group of researchers, only the principal researcher is named. Principal Researcher(s) Sponsoring Institution Project Title Jacek Cukrowski CASE, Warsaw, Poland Intra-Industry Trade in Perfectly Competitive Markets: Policy Implications for Countries Accessing European Union Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 Vesselin Mintchev Center for the Study of Democracy Sofia, Bulgaria Impact of European Union Enterprises Relocation on Inter-Firm Relations in Bulgaria Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Przemyslaw Wozniak CASE, Warsaw, Poland Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Malgorzata Jakubiak CASE, Warsaw, Poland Transmission of Knowledge and Innovation into Poland: Role of Trade and Foreign Investment Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Milic Milovanovic University of Belgrade, Serbia Endogenous Corruption in Emerging Industrial Relations Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Marta Orviska Faculty of Finance, Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovakia The Perception of the Reform Process in Transition Economies Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 (in Slovak) Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos CEU, Budapest, Hungary The Role of Liquidity in the Financial Markets of Transition Economies Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 Morten Hansen Centre for European and Transition Studies University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia The Natural Rate of Unemployment in Latvia Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Michal Kejak and Andreas Ortmann CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic E-LEARNING: A Way to Solve the Human Capital Mismatch Problem in Transitional Economies in Central Europe? Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Alexis Derviz Faculty of Social Sciences - Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Exchange Rate Exposure of the Banking Sector Balance Sheet Seen from the Forex Microstructure Perspective Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Zsuzsa Kapitany and Gyorgy Molnar Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary The Changing Consumer Behaviour of Hungarian Households: Theoretical Problems of Households Consumption and Lifestyles in Hungary Summary of Findings || Completed Paper 01 || 02 || 03 Gheorghe Ciobanu Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Linking the Trade and Competition Fields: Relevance for Policy in Transition Economies Project Cancelled Radim Bohacek CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Welfare State Policies and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff: Theory, Computation and Evidence Summary of Findings || Completed Paper Viatcheslav Vinogradov CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic Human Capital Mismatch in Central European Countries and Russia: A Comparative Study Summary of Findings Vita King EuroFaculty, University of Latvia Riga, Latvia An Analytical Comparison of Alternative Forms of Public Bureaucracy Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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