Masaryk University Events Calendar

Lecture of dr. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

5 Oct 2016 1:30 PM

Rail passenger market opening: The British experience

6 Oct 2016 4:20 PM

European policy has focused in recent decades on liberalising Europe’s railway systems with a view to promoting competition and enhancing the performance of railways. Whilst legislation on passenger competition...

Linguistic distance, networks and the regional location decisions of migrants to the EU

7 Oct 2016 1:00 PM

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location decisions of migrants to the European Union at the regional level. We find that networks have a positive...

Transformation of Labour Market in Europe and Voting for Far-Right and Far-Left Parties

10 Oct 2016 12:00 PM

The literature suggests that there is a significant gender gap in the support of far right parties. Male voters exhibit a higher propensity to voting for them. The probability of voting for these political...

The Universiteit Utrecht held second festive graduation ceremony for our double degree program European Governance

21 Oct 2016

CER Conference 2016

24 Oct 2016

MVZ496 Israel and Politics of Innovation: The Start-up Nation in the international Perspective

1 Nov 2016

World Tax Index: What is the real tax burden?

1 Nov 2016 12:00 PM

The World Tax Index (WTI) combines hard tax data available from world-respected sources and national tax laws with soft data expressing Qualified Expert Opinion (QEO). The QEO is gained from annual large-scale...

Stephen Doig on investigative journalism

10 Nov 2016 5:00 PM – 7 Nov 2016 10:29 AM

Empirical approaches to the modelling of stock market networks

18 Nov 2016 1:00 PM

The talk focuses on the results of modeling stock market networks.  In the first part of the talk, general principles of network construction are introduced and several common widely used graph-theoretic...

Stock Market Contagion in Central and Eastern Europe: Unexpected Volatility and Extreme Co-exceedance

18 Nov 2016 2:00 PM

The presentation shows recent evidence about the existence and size of contagion from the U.S. stock market to six Central and Eastern European stock markets. A novel approach to the measurement of contagion...

Old sins cast long shadows: Long-term effects of Aussiedlung of ethnic Germans from Czech Republic on migration

5 Dec 2016 12:00 PM

There were over 3.000.000 (29 % of total population) of ethnic Germans in current Czech Republic prior to the Second World War living mostly in ethnicaly segregated villages of Sudetenland -- German-speaking...

Road congestion and public transit

16 Dec 2016 1:00 PM

Road congestion and travel delays are a major obstacle to efficient transportation. We estimate the marginal external time cost of motor vehicle travel as well as the public-transit induced reduction in...

Outstanding International Student Satisfaction Award

31 Dec 2016 11:23 PM

International med students have a football team. Come play with them

31 Dec 2016 11:59 PM

Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities

1 Jan 2017 1:23 PM – 1 Apr 2017 12:01 AM

Festival of Iranian Films in Scala

17 Jan 2017 11:12 AM – 19 Jan 2017 1:12 AM

Open Days

20–21 Jan 2017

Visegrad Fund Scholarships - deadline 31 January 2017

31 Jan 2017 1:05 AM – 11:59 PM

Killing two birds with one stone: Reducing fiscal and welfare loss of tax evasion

8 Feb 2017 12:00 PM

Tax evasion constitutes a fiscal loss to the tax authority and a welfare loss for the society because it induces socially wasteful activities during which taxpayers spend real resources in order to hide...