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Mikhail Mamonov (Junior Researcher, CERGE-EI), Anna Pestova (PhD student, CERGE-EI) and Steven Ongena (University of Zurich) in their column for VoxEU.org explore the informational effects of financial sanctions against Russia’s state-owned and controlled banks compared to similar private banks ‘not yet sanctioned’.

Read more …VoxEU.org: “Crime and Punishment”: How Russian banks anticipated and dealt with global financial sanctions

"We say it's important to invest in infrastructure and it’s important to note that education is also a part of infrastructure," said Jan Švejnar on the radio program Interview Plus.

Read more …CERGE-EI Media Highlights for May

Thinking about poverty leads to greater impatience – people tend to postpone unpleasant activities. This effect may then contribute to the long-term nature of poverty. This is the result of an experiment reported in a joint paper published in the Economic Journal by Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely.

Read more …Poverty and People's Economic Behaviour

This week the Dissertation Workshop presentations are taking place.

Read more …Dissertation Workshop presentations started

IDEA, the think-tank of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences focusing on policy-relevant research and recommendations, just published its annual Book of Abstracts.

Read more …A Year's Worth of Great IDEAs