are often a team CERGE-EI effort, as researchers and faculty lend their advice and assistance to students throughout their dissertation writing stage.

Dissertations 2010

"Monetary Policy, Inflation and Dollarization in the Economies of Central Asia" by Asel Isakova;
Date of defense: March 15, 2010

Dissertations 2009

"Anti-Corruption mechanism in Economic Models of Corruption" by Jana Krajcova;
Date of defense: December 17, 2009

"Essays on International Economics" by Juraj Stancik;
Date of defense: December 11, 2009

"Essays on Migration and Trade" by Tomáš Konečný;
Date of defense: November 24, 2009

"Essays on the Globalization of Production and International Trade" by Anu Kovaříková Arro;
Date of defense: October 9, 2009

"Essays on Mathematical Methods for Economics" by František Brázdik;
Date of defense: August 31, 2009

"Essays on Interest Rates and Credit Risk" by Martin Vojtek;
Date of defense: July 24, 2009

"Essays in Finance and Monetary Policy: Evidence from VIsegrad Countries" by Magdalena Morgese Borys;
Date of defense: June 26, 2009

"Privatization and Stock Market Creation: Evidence from Transition Economies" by Zuzana Fungáčová;
Date of defense: June 26, 2009

"Essays on Quality Assurance Mechanisms" by Jan Mysliveček;
Date of defense: June 4, 2009

"Overconfidence in Business, Economics, Finance, and Psychology: How Much of a Problem is It?" by Marián Krajč;
Date of defense: June 4, 2009

"Essays on the unbundling of electricity networks in the EU and the USA: Theory and Empirics" by Silvester van Koten;
Date of defense: June 4, 2009

"Essays on Exporting Behavior of Firms and on Inflation Persistence" by Branislav Saxa;
Date of defense: June 2, 2009

Dissertations 2008

"Essays on the Microeconomics of Banking" by Pavel Dvořák;
Date of defense: December 11th, 2008

"Modelling an Interconnected Economy – General Equilibrium and Matching Model Approaches"
by Zuzana Dobrotková;
Date of defense: July 4th, 2008

" Three Essays on Regime Change " by Juraj Antal;
Date of defense: June 20th, 2008

"Essays on International Currency Markets " by Tigran Poghosyan;
Date of defense: June 20th, 2008

"Learning and Macroeconomics Dynamics" by Dmitri Kolyuzhnov;
Date of defense: May 30th, 2008

"Statistical Approaches to Short-Term Electricity Forecasting " by Andrea Kellová;
Date of defense: May 30th, 2008

Dissertations 2007

"Imperfect Knowledge, Expectations, and Monetary Policy " by Martin Fukač
Date of defense: December 14th, 2007

"Essays on Managerial Pay Structure " by Teodora Paligorova
Date of defense: December 14th, 2007

"Measurement of Economic Variables " by Dana Hájková
Date of defense: September 21, 2007

"Essays in Corporate Finance " by Karin Jőeveer
Date of defense: August 29, 2007

"Essays on Philanthropy " by Katarína Svítková
Date of defense: June 8, 2007

"The Impact of Financial Incentives on Task Performance:The Role of Cognitive Abilities&Intrinsic Motivation " by Ondřej Rydval
Date of defense: June 8, 2007

"Essays on Competition and Entrepreneurial Choice between Nonprofit and For-profit Firms " by Petra Brhlikova
Date of defense: February 2, 2007

Dissertations 2006

"Three Essays on the Effect of Alternative Ownership Structures on Investment and Financial Constraints: An Empirical Investigation " by Bersant Hobdari
Date of defense: November 23, 2006

"Essays on Stock Market Integration and on the Curse of Natural Resources " by Alexandr Cerny
Date of defense: November 23, 2006

"Essays on the Default of California Non-rated Land Secured Bonds " by Anna Racheva
Date of defense: November 21, 2006

"Essays on Monetary Integration, Inflation, and Trade Competitiveness in Transition Countries " by Ainura Uzagalieva
Date of defense: October 3, 2006

"Essays on Corporate Finance " by Jan Bena
Date of defense: August 15, 2006

"Bidding Behavior of Investment Companies in the Voucher Privatization " by Elena Yusupova
Date of defense: August 15, 2006

"International Portfolio Diversification in the Central European Region " by Milan Neubauer
Date of defense: August 15, 2006

"Essays on Coordination Problems " by Jakub Steiner
Date of defense: June 29, 2006

"Essays on Tying in Oligopolistic Markets and on Survival in Financial Markets" by Eugen Kováč
Date of defense: June 23, 2006

"Mergers, Antitrust, and Competition" by Andrei Medvedev
Date of defense: June 12, 2006

"Essays on Tournament Design" by Dmitry Ryvkin
Date of defense: June 2, 2006

"The essays on foreign investments and economic geography: Empirical investigation of Czech manufacturing sector" by Jana Valachyová
Date of defense: January 24, 2006

Dissertations 2005

"Internal Migration in Bohemia at the turn of the 20th Century. " by Alexander Klein
Date of defense: December 5, 2005

"Essays on Czech Banking Sector’s Efficiency and Role in the Monetary Transmission Mechanism " by Anca Maria Pruteanu
Date of defense: May 31, 2005

"Essays on Transition and EU Enlargement" by Ian Babetskii
Date of defense: May 30, 2005

"The European Parliament in the System of European Union Institutions" by Martina Pechova-Dobesova
Date of defense: May 15, 2005

"Fiscal Decentralization in the Context of Transition: The Case of Russia" by Andrey Timofeev
Date of defense: Mar 17, 2005

" Essays on Aspects of Monetary Policy in Small Open Transition Economies" by Jiri Podpiera
Date of defense: Feb 23, 2005

" Essays on Cumulative Prospect Theory, Individuals' Preference for the Most Probable Winner, and the Design of Olympic Prizes" by Pavlo Blavatskyy
Date of defense: Jan 21, 2005

Dissertations 2004

"Entrepreneurial Choice and Firm Dynamics" by Galina Vereshchagina
Date of defense: Aug 26, 2004

"Essays on Strategic Trade Policies" by Delia Ionascu
Date of defense: Jun 8, 2004

"Essays in Applied Microeconomics" by Michael Kunin
Date of defense: Jun 7, 2004

"Essays on Competition and Regulation in Telecommunications" by Bruno Wertlen
Date of defense: May 31, 2004

"Three Essays in International Macroeconomics" by Aurelius Dabusinskas
Date of defense: January 21, 2004

Dissertations 2003

"Price Modeling in Transition Economies: Essays on Currency and Fuel Markets" by Juraj Valachy
Date of defense: August 22, 2003

"Essays on currency options and risk neutral distributions" by Martin Cincibuch
Date of defense: July 15, 2003

"Employment Adjustment in a Transition Economy " by Ivana Studena-Moravcikova
Date of defense: June 27, 2003

"Essays on Lobbying and Some of its Policy Implications for the EU Enlargement Process" by Narcisa Kadlcakova-Virlan
Date of defense: June 27, 2003

"Ownership Concentration and Performance in Czech Companies" by Ashot Baghdasarian
Date of defense: April 18, 2003

"Essays in International Economics" by David Vavra
Date of defense: March 28, 2003

Dissertations 2002

"A Dynamic Model of Consumers' Random Choice with Applications to the TV Market" by Tomas Kadlec
Date of defense: December 18, 2002

"Political Economy of Coalition Formation" by Hana Krejci
Date of defense: September 27, 2002

"Economy of Parliamentary Voting: The Case of the Czech Republic" by Elena Mielcova
Date of defense: September 27, 2002

"Essays on Contracts" by Martin Kalovec
Date of defense: June 28, 2002

"Essays on Robust Estimation in Econometrics" by Pavel Cizek
Date of defense: June 7, 2002

"Essays on Inflation and Monetary Policy" by Martin Cihak
Date of defense: May 24, 2002

"Labor Markets Incentives of Public Pension Schemes" by Kamil Galuscak
Date of defense: April 23, 2002

"Labor Markets in Transition - The Cases of the Czech and Slovak Republic " by Martina Lubyova
Date of defense: March 26, 2002

"Four Essays on Boundedly Rational Learning" by Stepan Cabelka
Date of defense: March 21, 2002

"An Equilibrium Structure of Czech Interest Rates" by Zdenek Dvorny
Date of defense: January 17, 2002

Dissertations 2001

"National Representation in the European Union" by Peter Silarszky
Date of defense: December 21, 2001

"Bankruptcy Regulations and Bankruptcy in Practice" by Margit Toth
Date of defense: December 20, 2001

"Czech and Slovak Labour Market" by Vit Sorm
Date of defense: December 20, 2001

"Essays on a Quality Change of Consumer Basket Component and Related CPI Adjustments" by Elena Mikulcova
Date of defense: December 13, 2001

"Essays on Labor Markets in Transition" by Jan Planovsky
Date of defense: December 4, 2001

"Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Policies in an Economy with Spillovers" by Martin Jarolim
Date of defense: November 23, 2001

"Three Essays on Corruption and Extortion in the Context of Transition" by Inna Cabelkova
Date of defense: November 22, 2001

"Essays on the Functioning of Financial Markets" by Richard Podpiera
Date of defense: August 14, 2001

"Essays on Game-Theoretical Models of Political Processes" by Karel Soukenik
Date of defense: July 12, 2001

"Essays on Multi-Unit Auctions: Equilibrium, Bidders' Strategies, Revenue, and Efficiency" by Michal Bresky
Date of defense: June 6, 2001

Dissertations 2000

"Essays on Banking Efficiency in Transition Economies and Fiscal Costs of Bank Restructuring in the Czech Republic" by Anita Taci
Date of defense: November 24, 2000

"Prices, Inflation, and Growth: The Romanian Case" by Ella Kallai
Date of defense: November 23, 2000

"The Unemployment Problem in Bulgaria During the Transition Toward a Market Economy" by Christina Lenkova
Date of defense: June 20, 2000

"On the Power in Decision Making" by Rene Levinsky
Date of defense: April 10, 2000

"Essays on the Political Economy of Two-Party Electoral Competition:
Convergence Characteristics of Nash Equilibria" by Kamil Yazigee
Date of defense: March 3, 2000

"Essays on Transition Economies" by Emil Stavrev
Date of defense: January 19, 2000

"Empirical Evaluation of Electorate's Stability and Voters' Decision Making" by Daniel Narwa
Date of defense: January 19, 2000

Dissertations 1999

"Three Essays on Competition in Open Markets" by Constantin Colonescu
Date of defense: November 19, 1999

"Asset Pricing and Portfolio Allocation in Stochastic Economies with Heterogeneous Agents:
Speculative and Fundamental Valuation Models" by George Vachadze
Date of defense: November 19, 1999

"Neoclassical Growth, Convergence, and Capital MobilityPetr Duczynski
Date of defense: November 18, 1999

"Essays on the Money Demand, Interest and Exchange Rates" by Elena Bogacheva
Date of defense: November 18, 1999

"The Emigration Experience and its Impact on the Albanian Economy" by Nevila Konica
Date of defense: May 28, 1999

Dissertations 1998

"Essays on Pensions" by Ondrej Schneider
Date of defense: November 19, 1998

"Capital Markets in the Czech Republic: Birth and the First Steps" by Libor Nemecek
Date of defense: October 26, 1998

"Essays on the Microeconomics of Transition in the Czech Republic" by Lubomir Lizal
Date of defense: September 7, 1998

"Essays on Unemployment in Transitional Economies" by Daniel Munich
Date of defense: September 7, 1998

"Labor Market, Unemployment and the Impact of Training Programs in the Transition Economies" by Irena Dushi
Date of defense: July 3, 1998

Dissertations 1997

"Transition Experience of the CEFTA Countries" by Libor Krkoska
Date of defense: December 15, 1997

"Three Essays on Fixed Income Securities" by Martin Hlusek
Date of defense: December 8, 1997

"Essays on Disequilibria in Early Transition" by Michaela Erbenova
Date of defense: May 16, 1997

Dissertations 1996

"Essays on the Imperfections of Financial Intermediation During the Transition to a Market Economy" by Dmitri Shemetilo
Date of defense: December 13, 1996

"The Demand for Food Imports and for Agricultural Credit" by Karel Janda
Date of defense: December 13, 1996

"Research and Development Spillovers and the Strategic Interactions in the North-South Trade Relations" by Kresimir Zigic
Date of defense: January 15, 1996

Dissertations 1995

"Essays in Economics of Managing" by Jacek Cukrowski
Date of defense: July 3, 1995