2008

These 20 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. Each project also includes a note on the sponsoring institution and the project title.

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 Vukasović, Isidora Jaric, Predrag Lažetić & Nataša Pantić
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 Orviská, Anetta Čaplánová & Pavol Čižmárik
Matej Bel University, Banská 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
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Gábor Koltay
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
How much does your environment matter? Estimating demand with consumption externalities
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

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

Álmos Telegdy & Ádám Szentpéteri
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

Marián 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

František Kopřiva
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Source of Information Driven Trading on Prague Stock Exchange
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Katarina Kálovcová
CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic
Policy Information Markets: Experimental and Theoretical Studies
Summary of Findings || Completed Paper

Filip Polonský & Josef Novotný
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