June 3, 2014
Why do we prefer riverside living to inland living? How do bridges bring wealth to cities that build them? CEU Associate Professor of Economics Miklos Koren studies the role of bridges in the emergence of cities.
February 25, 2014
Since the 1980s, a number of macroeconomic models have studied how fiscal policies and monetary policies affect the unemployment rate. These models ignored the fact that one could choose not to search for a job. CEU Assistant Professor of Economics Alessia Campolmi’s research into labor market participation covers the movements of the unemployment rate, the decisions behind participation or non-participation, and the effect certain policies might have on these decisions. In what will ultimately be a tool to inform unemployment policy, Campolmi and Bank of Canada Senior Analyst Stefano Gnocchi...
November 12, 2013
CEU Professor Rosario Mantegna is not a detective, but he's getting to know the criminal mind, or at least criminal patterns. A scholar whose main interest is networks, Mantegna has put his mind to work, this time, to examine human behavior instead of market fluctuations.
Although criminal records are a matter of public record in some countries, to have a large, consistent database is rare. Mantegna and his co-researchers identified a such a database in Sweden. Nordic countries are well known for maintaining precise records in the interest of academic study.
August 26, 2013
Unequal access to quality education is a much-debated issue in Hungary. People of Roma background (also referred to as Romani) make up approximately 10 percent of the Hungarian population, but school populations often don't reflect the residential makeup of surrounding neighborhoods. While complete segregation of Romani and non-Romani students is rare, large discrepancies persist in the ethnic composition of schools in some Hungarian towns.
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