Grant detail

GACR 402/08/0501 (2008-2010) Political Economy of Public Spending

Principal investigator: doc. Ing. Ondřej Schneider MPhil., Ph.D.
Collaborators: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová
Radovan Chalupka Ph.D.
PhDr. Kamila Fialová
doc. PhDr. Adam Geršl Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Martin Gregor Ph.D.
PhDr. Lenka Šťastná Ph.D.
PhDr. Jan Zápal Ph.D.
Description: In this project, we set out to analyze public finance systems and public budgets in their broad context. We will combine political economy approach with a more mainstream economic analysis. The project will start with the analysis of budgetary institutions and their relationship to budgetary outcomes. We aim to provide evidence on how legislative institutions affect budgetary performance. This understanding of fiscal policy institutions will allow us to analyze vigorously sustainability of public budgets. In this part of the project we plan to zoom in on the Czech public budgets. We will analyze composition of the local public spending, but most attention will be given to major government spending programmes – pensions and health care. We will also analyse dynamics between fiscal and monetary policies and roots of financial crises that were triggered by unsustainable fiscal policies.
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Finance: GA ČR
End date: 12.2010
Publications:

Budgetary Rules and Budget Process: Theory, Empirics, and the Case of the Czech Republic

Country Profiles - Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania in: Zápal et al (2009). Health System Financing in the EU: Current Practice and the Ageing Challenge. Prague, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic

Dictatorship versus Manipulability Dilemma

Doctor-Visit Co-Payment Exemption for Children: First Look at the Data

Economic Volatility and Institutional Reforms in Macroeconomic Policymaking: The Case of Fiscal Policy

Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic

Fiscal Councils and Economic Volatility

Health System Financing in the EU: Current Practices and the Ageing Challenge

Improving Risk Adjustment in the Czech Republic

Labor Institutions and their Impact on Shadow Economies in Europe

Minimum wage: Labour market consequences in the Czech Republic (K. Fialová, M. Mysíková)

Minimum wage: Labour market consequences in the Czech Republic (K. Fialová, M. Mysíková)

Mobile criminals, immobile crime: the efficiency of decentralized crime deterrence

Modeling Bank Loan LGD of Corporate and SME Segments: A Case Study

OCA cubed: Mundell in 3D

On the strategic non-complementarity of complements

Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia

Political Legislation Cycle in the Czech Republic

Political Legislation Cycle in the Czech Republic

Reforming Pensions in Europe: Economic Fundamentals and Political Factors

Spatial Interdependence of Local Public Expenditures: Selected Evidence from the Czech Republic

Spatial Interdependence of Local Public Expenditures: Selected Evidence from the Czech Republic

Strict Proportional Power and Fair Voting Rules in Committees

THE DEATH RELATED COSTS HYPOTHESIS IN THE CZECH HEALTH CARE SYSTEM – THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

Tradeoffs of foreign assistance for the weakest-link global public goods

Voting in the European Union - Central Europe’s lost voice

Wage Differentiation and Unemployment in the Districts of the Czech Republic

Conferences:

EEA 2009: European Economic Association, Barcelona, Spain

PET 2009: Association for Public Economic Theory, Galway, Ireland

Downloadable: 2008 Report

Partners

Deloitte
Česká Spořitelna

Sponsors

CRIF
McKinsey
Patria Finance
EY