Jan Fidrmuc: Research

Jan Fidrmuc: Publications and Working Papers by Area

    Political Economy:

  1. Does Where You Live Affect How You Vote? An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior, with Orla Doyle.
  2. Testing for East-West Similarities: Determinants of Support for European Integration within the EU-25, with Orla Doyle.
  3. "Who Is in Favor of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries’ Referenda," with Orla Doyle, European Journal of Political Economy 22, June 2006, 520-543.. Working paper version dowloadable here.
  4. Interest Groups, Stakeholders, and the Distribution of Benefits and Costs of Reform, with Abdul G. Noury, in: Understanding Market Reforms Volume 1: Philosophy, Politics, and Stakeholders, in: Jose Maria Fanelli and Garry McMahon (eds.), Palgrave McMillan, 2005 (forthcoming).
  5. Anatomy of Voting Behavior and Attitudes during Post-Communist Transition: Czech Republic 1990-98, with Orla Doyle, in: Nauro F. Campos and Jan Fidrmuc (eds.): Political Economy of Transition and Development: Institutions, Politics and Policies. ZEI Studies in European Economics and Law, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003, 139-164.
  6. "Economics of Voting in Post-communist Countries," Electoral Studies 19 (2/3), 2000, pp. 197-217. Special issue: Economics and Elections. Working-paper version downloadable.
  7. "Political Support for Reforms: Economics of Voting in Transition Countries," European Economic Review 44 (8), 2000, pp. 1491-1513. Downloadable as CentER Discussion Paper.
  8. "Unemployment and the Dynamics of Political Support for Economic Reforms," Journal of Policy Reforms 3 (2), 1998, pp. 139-156. Working-paper version downloadable.

    Economic Growth:

  1. Money Can’t Buy Me Growth: Making Change Happen in Post-communist Countries?, forthcoming in Seoul Journal of Economics 21 (3).
  2. "Nurturing the Market Economy? The Impact of EBRD Investments on Growth in Post-communist Countries," with Claire Hurst, work in progress.
  3. Mind the Gap! Social Capital, East and West, with Klarita Gërxhani, Journal of Comparative Economics 36, June 2008, 264-286..
  4. Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Post-communist Transition, with Ariane Tichit.
  5. "Economic Reform, Democracy and Growth during Post-communist Transition." European Journal of Political Economy 19 (3), September 2003, 583-604. Working paper version dowloadable here.
  6. Democracy in Transition Economies: Grease or Sand in the Wheels of Growth?. Awarded second prize in the European Investment Bank essay competition (See The 2001 EIB Prize awards).

    Migration and Inter-ethnic Marriage:


  1. Anthropometry of Love: Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages, with Michèle Belot, also available as CEPR DP 7146.
  2. Does Where You Live Affect How You Vote? An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior, with Orla Doyle.
  3. Where Have All the Migrants Gone? Reconciling Falling Migration with Increasing Regional Disparities during Transition,” with Peter Huber.
  4. "Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic," forthcoming in a special issue of Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung (Journal or Labor Market Research) on “Europeanization of the Labor Markets in an Enlarged European Union.” Working paper version dowloadable here.
  5. "“Migration and Regional Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies,” Journal of Comparative Economics 32 (2), June 2004, 230-247. Working paper version dowloadable here.
  6. "Les Ajustements aux Chocs par Les Migrations Inter-regionales: Le Cas des Republiques Tchèque et Slovaque," Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest 31 (4), December 2000, 5-26.

    Integration and Disintegration of Countries:


  1. Foreign Languages and Trade, with Jarko Fidrmuc.
  2. "Who Is in Favor of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries’ Referenda," with Orla Doyle, forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Economy. Working paper version dowloadable here.
  3. "Optimum Choice of the Exchange-rate Regime for the Accession-candidate Countries," with Mathilde Maurel, Journal of Comparative Economics 32 (2), June 2004, 197-201.
  4. "Disintegration and Trade," with Jarko Fidrmuc. Review of International Economics, 11 (5), September 2003, 811-829. Working paper version dowloadable here.
  5. Optimal Parth into the EMU: Big Bang or Gradualism? In: Karl Aiginger and Gernot Hutschenreiter (eds.): Economic Policy Issues for the Next Decade, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003, 123-140.
  6. "EU Enlargement: Economic Consequences and Perspectives for the European Union," with Susanne Mundschenk, Iulia Traistaru and Jürgen von Hagen, in Andrew M. Warner (ed.) The European Competitiveness and Transition Report 2001-2002, Oxford University Press and World Economic Forum, Oxford and Geneva, 2002.
  7. "Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break Up of Czechoslovakia," with Julius Horvath and Jarko Fidrmuc, Journal of Comparative Economics 27 (4), December 1999, pp. 753-781. Working-paper version downloadable.
  8. Stochastic Shocks and Incentives for (Dis)Integration.

    Languages:


  1. Foreign Languages and Trade, with Jarko Fidrmuc.
  2. Voting on the choice of core languages in the European Union, with Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, forthcoming in European Journal of Political Economy.
  3. Languages in the European Union: The Quest for Equality and its Cost, with Victor Ginsburgh, European Economic Review 51 (6), August 2007, 1351-1369..
  4. Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? The Official-language Problem in the European Union, with Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber.

    Firm Restructuring:

  1. Fire the Manager to Improve Performance? Managerial Turnover and Incentives after Privatization in the Czech Republic, with Jana P. Fidrmuc, Economics of Transition 15 (3), July 2007, 505-533.
  2. Can You Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? On Complementarity of Human Capital and Incentives, with Jana P. Fidrmuc, Journal of International Money and Finance 25, April 2006, 445-458.

Last modified on 4 March 2009.