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Essays in Applied Meta-Analysis
Polák, Petr ; Havránek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pugh, Geoff (referee) ; Rusnák, Marek (referee) ; Reed, William Robert (referee)
The dissertation consists of three papers presenting applications of meta-analysis in economics and introductory chapter which discusses the development of meta-analysis in author's perspective as well as strengths and weaknesses of this quantitative method to synthesize empirical research. In the first paper analyses the impact of information and communication technology investments on productivity. The second paper focuses on the trade effect of the euro. In the third investigates the relation between international trade flows and trade costs.
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Essays on monetary policy transmission
Rusnák, Marek ; Horváth, Roman (advisor) ; Baxa, Jaromír (referee) ; Pugh, Geoff (referee) ; Belke, Ansgar (referee)
The dissertation consists of three papers presenting applications of meta-analysis in macroeconomics and two papers dealing with real-time data properties and forecasting. The first two papers examine the effect of monetary policy on price level, while the third paper investigates the habit formation in consumption. Fourth paper presents a model to nowcast Czech GDP in real time, while the last paper looks at the properties of data revisions to Czech national accounts.
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education: Evidence from Visegrad Countries
Votava, Tomáš ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Pugh, Geoff (referee)
Wage inequality is a well-established phenomenon of contemporary labour markets both in the United States and Europe, frequently discussed in the contemporary labour economics literature. In the following paper, based on harmonised data of the EU-SILC database, a semi parametric technique of quantile regression has been applied together with the traditional OLS method in order to estimate the impact of returns to education on wages in the Visegrad Group countries, namely the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The main aim of the analysis is to examine the returns to education in these countries in order to observe differences appearing across them as well as within selected groups formed according to both the highest level of education attained and a number of years spent in a paid work (experience).
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