LIBOR DUŠEK, Ph.D.

 

CERGE-EI

phone: (+420) 224-005-146

Politických Vězňů 7

e-mail: libor.dusek@cerge-ei.cz

111 21 Praha 1

http://home.cerge-ei.cz/ldusek

Czech Republic

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

University of Chicago

Ph.D. Economics, June 2003

 

Charles University, Prague

M.A. Economics, May 1998

 

Charles University, Prague

B.A.  Economics, June 1995

 

 

FIELDS

Economics of crime, public sector, social security

 

 

 

WORK

EXPERIENCE

2006 -

Deputy Director for Development and Public Relations, CERGE-EI, Prague

2003 -

Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher, CERGE-EI, Prague (joint workplace of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (NHU AV CR, v.v.i.) and CERGE at Charles University)

 

2001

University of Chicago, RA for Gary S. Becker

1999

University of Chicago, RA for Steven D. Levitt

 

1997-99

Research Fellow, Liberalni institut, Prague

 

1998

Adviser to Minister, Government of the Czech Republic

 

1995-96

Junior Researcher, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Washington, DC

 

 

WORKING

PAPERS

Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, (with Juraj Kopecsni), 2008, under review in Czech Journal of Economics and Finance.

 

 

 

Political Risk of Social Security: The case of the indexation of benefits in the Czech Republic, CERGE-EI working paper 318 (2007).

 

 

 

Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy, CERGE-EI working paper 2005.

 

 

 

Do Governments Grow When They Become More Efficient? Evidence from Tax Withholding. (PhD dissertation, 2003)

 

 

 

Visibility of Taxes and the Size of Government (working paper, 2002)

 

 

 

Why Do Ex-Monopolists Keep a High Market Share After Deregulation? (working paper, 2001)

 

 

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Understanding corruption and corruptibility through experiments: a primer (with Andreas Ortmann and Lubomír Lízal), Prague Economic Papers, No. 2 (2005).

 

 

 

Experimental Comparison of Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Procedural Regimes (joint with M. K. Block, O. Block, and J. S. Parker), American Law and Economics Review, Vol.2, No.1 (Spring 2000), pp. 170-194.

 

 

 

Economic Theory of Regulation and Competition in Energy Networks (in Czech), Politicka ekonomie 3/1998, Prague.

 

 

 

Blueprint for Deregulating the Czech Electricity Industry (in Czech), Liberalni institut, Prague, 1998.

 

 

 

Focus on the Temelín nuclear plant, Liberalni institut, Prague, 1997.

 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Czech Republic 2005 – Year After (editor, with Krešimir Žigič), CERGE-EI 2005.

 

 

 

Czech Republic 2003/2004 – Entering the EU (editor, with Štěpán Jurajda), CERGE-EI 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING

EXPERIENCE

CERGE-EI, Prague

Spring 2008

Topics in Applied Microeconomics II

 

 

Spring 2007

Public Economics II (G)

 

 

Fall 2006

Transition and European Integration I (G)

(jointly with Lubomir Lizal)

 

Fall 2006

Microeconomics I (G)

(jointly with Junghun Cho)

 

Spring 2006

Public Economics II (G)

 

 

Fall 2005

Microeconomics I (G)

 

 

Summer 2005

Preparatory Microeconomics (U)

 

 

Fall 2004

Public Economics II (G)

 

 

Fall 2004

Microeconomics I (G)

 

 

Spring 2004

Public Economics II (G)

 

 

Fall 2003

Microeconomics I (G)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Chicago

 

Spring 2003

Law and economics (U)

TA for Damien de Walque

 

Spring 2002

Law and economics (U)

Lecturer

 

Spring 2001

Law and economics (U)

TA for John F. Pfaff

 

Fall 2000

Industrial organization (G)

TA for Dennis W. Carlton

 

Spring 2000

Price theory III (G)

TA for Sherwin Rosen

 

Winter 2000

Law and economics (U)

TA for John F. Pfaff

 

 

 

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague

 

Summer 2006

Law and economics (G)

Lecturer

 

Summer 2005

Law and economics (G)

Lecturer

 

Summer 2004

Law and economics (U)

Lecturer

 

Winter 2001

Law and economics (U)

Lecturer

 

 

 

 

GRANTS

Political Economy of Retirement Age, Global Development Network, 2005-2006, principal investigator, joint with Peter Katuščák.

 

Crime and Democracy – Accounting for the Growth of Crime in the Post-Communist Countries, Global Development Network, 2004-2005, principal investigator

 

Pension reforms: political and investment risks – facts and experience in the Central European Countries“, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2005-2006, co-investigator (principal investigator: Doc. Ondřej Schneider, Ph.D.)

 

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2003

Young Economist of 2003, awarded by the Czech Economics Association

 

2002

Karel Englis Prize (awarded by the President of the Czech Economics Association for the best paper on public policy written by a young Czech economist)

 

2002-03

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Dissertation Fellowship

 

1999-02

Bradley Foundation Scholarship

 

1998-99

Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Study in the USA

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Workshop on Law in Sports, Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, 2008

 

Kyiv School of Economics Seminar, Kyiv, 2007

 

Central European University Economics Seminar, Budapest, 2007

 

Czech Economics Association conference, Prague 2006

 

European Public Choice Society annual meeting, Turku, 2006

 

American Economics Association annual meeting, Boston, 2006

 

Czech Economics Association conference, Prague 2004

 

European Economics Association annual meetings, Amsterdam, 2005

 

GDN regional conference, Prague 2005

 

GDN regional conference, Prague 2004

 

International Institute of Public Finance annual congress, Prague 2003

 

European Economics Association annual meetings, Stockholm, 2003

 

Villa Mondragone workshop in economic theory and econometrics, Rome, 2003

 

Carleton University, Ottawa ON, 2003

 

University of Chicago (Applied Micro Working Group, Workshop in Applications of Economics, Political Economics Workshop), 2000-2002

 

Charles University, Prague, 2001, 2003

 

Goldwater Institute, Phoenix AZ, 2000

 

Liberalni Institut Conference on Gas Deregulation, Prague, 1999

 

Liberalni Institut Conference on Electricity Deregulation, Prague, 1998

 

 

REFEREE

Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Finance a uver

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2008 -

Board of Directors, Nadace CERGE-EI

2007 -

Academic Council, Jihlava Polytechnical College

 

2005-2008

Departmental Council 7, Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES

Casey B. Mulligan

c-mulligan@uchicago.edu

1-773-702-6576

 

Gary S. Becker

gbecker@midway.uchicago.edu

1-773-702-8168

 

Steven D. Levitt

slevitt@midway.uchicago.edu

1-773-834-1862

 

 

 

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