Center for Issues of Inequality and Open Society (CONOS)
CIOS research activities in the field of SHUV will lead to strengthening the resilience of open society and the rule of law in the digital environment. Within the six ERs,…
Global minimum taxation and investment of multinationals (MINITAX)
What is the impact of global minimum taxes on investment by multinationals, one of the drivers of economic growth? The investment impact of global minimum taxes is largely unexplored. To…
Ageing of the population and related challenges for health and social systems (AGEING-CZ)
Population ageing is a long-term trend in the Czech Republic and other developed countries, which poses risks to the stability of health and social systems. Managing them will require the…
Evidence-Based Industrial Policy
Policy-makers are increasingly relying on “structural” or “industrial” policies to revive productivity growth and reach their strategic objectives. Subsidies and public procurement play a central role in this context, but…
Center for advanced economic studies II
The aim of the project is to support the high quality of economic research at Charles University (CU) and the cooperation between its workplaces engaged in economic research: CERGE and…
Leveraging unique microdata to study the effects of public support for business R&D
Governments use public funds to subsidize business research and development (R&D), because externalities and information asymmetries that are inherent to the innovation process make private funding of these activities fall…
Spurious Precision in Meta-Analysis of Social Science Research (METASPUR)
I argue that the meta-analysis methodology used in observational research entails a bias, one that stems from a reliance on reported precision which often exaggerates real precision. I will show…
The Interchange Between Democratic Institutions and the Globalisation of the Economy (DemoTrans)
Following World War II, globalisation and market liberalisation triggered a period of unprecedented growth. Recently, these trends appear to reverse, whereby globalisation and corporations started to pose challenges for liberal…
The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks
The National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks (abbreviated as SYRI) is a virtual scientific hub that brings together experts from Masaryk University, Charles University…
Global Excellence in Modeling Climate and Energy Policies (GEOCEP)
Easy transition to a zero-carbon economy In recent years, due to the growing concerns about global warming and climate change, a big effort is being made to transition to a…