Doc. Mgr. LIBOR DUŠEK, Ph.D.
UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS,PRAGUE PHONE:(+420)224-095-516
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS E-MAIL: [email protected]
NAM W.CHURCHILLA 4 HTTP://HOME.CERGE-EI.CZ/LDUSEK
13067PRAGUE 3
CZECH REPUBLIC
EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D. Economics, 2003
Charles University, Prague M.A. Economics, 1998
Charles University, Prague B.A. Economics, 1995
FIELDS Economics of crime, Law and Economics, Public Economics
WORK
EXPERIENCE
2015 - University of Economics, Prague, Associate Professor
2013-2015 University of Economics, Prague, Assistant Professor
2012 - CERGE-EI, Prague,IDEA Senior Researcher, (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)
2006-2009, 2010-2011
CERGE-EI, Prague, Deputy Director for Development and Public Relations
2003 - 2012 CERGE-EI, Prague, Assistant Professor and Researcher
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
The Effects of a Simpler Criminal Procedure on Criminal Case Outcomes: Evidence from Czech District-level Data, CERGE-EI WP 528(2015), available at http://www.cerge-ei.cz/working-papers/
Responses to more severe punishment in the courtroom: Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Laws (with Fusako Tsuchimoto),CERGE-EI working paper 403 (2009).
Political Risk of Social Security: The case of the indexation of benefits in the Czech Republic, CERGE-EI working paper 318 (2007).
PAPERS IN JOURNALS
Time to Punishment: The Effects of a Shorter Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates, forthcoming in International Review of Law and Economics, available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2334591
The Poor or the Kids? Distributional Impacts of the Tax and Benefit System among Czech Households, (with Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Munich), forthcoming in Prague Economic Papers.
Distribution of Average, Marginal and Participation Tax Rates among Czech Taxpayers: Results from a TAXBEN Model,
(with Klára Kalíšková and Daniel Munich), Czech
Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 63, No.6 (2013), pp. 475-504.Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy, German Economic Review, Vol. 13, No. 4 (2012), pp. 447-469.
Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, (with Juraj Kopecsni), Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 58, No. 7-8 (2008).
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 (with M. K. Block, O. Block, and J. S. Parker), American Law and Economics Review, Vol.2, No.1 (Spring 2000), pp. 170-194.
PAPERS IN JOURNALS (CZECH)
Dopady reformy přímých daní k roku 2015: vyhodnocení pomocí modelu TAXBEN (with Klára Kalíšková a Daniel Munich), Politická ekonomie 6/2014, pp.749-768.
Hodnocení státní podpory stavebního spoření: dopad na úspory a příjmovou nerovnost (with
Petr Janský), Ekonomický časopis, Vol 60, No 10 (2012), pp. 991-1004.
Dopady změn daně z přidané hodnoty na reálné příjmy domácností (with Petr Janský),
Politická ekonomie 3 (2012).
Návrhy daňovýc změn: kolik přidají veřejným rozpočtům? (with Petr Janský), Ekonomická revue – Central European Review of Economic Issues, Vol 15 (2012), pp. 51-62
Economická teorie regulace a konkurence v energetických sítích, Politická ekonomie 3 (1998).
BOOKS, POLICY STUDIES, ETC.
Zdanění vysokých příjmů: reforma za reformou (with Jiří Šatava), IDEA-CERGE-EI (December 2013)
Kde hledat příčiny přeplněných věznic, IDEA-CERGE-EI (August 2012)
Očekávané dopady změn DPH na rozpočty krajů (with Petr Janský), IDEA-CERGE-EI, (April 2012)
CERGE-EI Tackles Transition (editor, with Lubomír Lízal), CERGE-EI (2011)
Jak by sjednocení DPH na 17.5% dopadlo na domácnosti a veřejné rozpočty (with Petr
Janský),IDEA-CERGE-EI (March 2011)
Jak by daňové změny dopadly na domácnosti a veřejné rozpočty, (with Petr Janský), IDEA-CERGE-EI (February 2011)
Jak reformovat veřejné finance (with Jan Švejnar, Vilém Semerák), IDEA-CERGE-EI (May 2010)
Odpovědnost za sportovní úrazy pohledem ekonomické analýzy práva, vKolektiv autorů: Otázky sportovního práva, Ústav státu a práva AVČR (2008).
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
Do Governments Grow When They Become More Efficient? Evidence from Tax Withholding. (PhD dissertation, University of Chicago 2003)
Blueprint for Deregulating the Czech Electricity Industry (in Czech), Liberalni institut, Prague, (1998)
Focus on the Temelín nuclear plant, Liberalni institut, Prague (1997)
TEACHING University of Economics in Prague
EXPERIENCE Lecturer in MA course: Microeconomics III Lecturer in MA course: Economics and the Law
Lecturer in BA course: Introduction to Law and Economics CERGE-EI, Prague
Lecturer in PhD courses: Microeconomics, Law and Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Transition, Topics in Applied Microeconomics
University of Chicago
Lecturer in BA course: Law and Economics
Teaching Assistant for Sherwin Rosen (Price Theory, PhD), Dennis W. Carlton (Industrial Organization, PhD, Microeconomics, MBA), John F. Pfaff (Economic Analysis of Law, BA), Damien de Walque (Economic Analysis of Law, BA)
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague Lecturer in MA course: Law and Economics
PhD Dmitri Vorobyev, 2013 (currently Assistant Professor at Ural Federal University
SUPERVISION Boryana Madzharova, 2013 (currently Postdoc at University of Nurnberg-Erlangen) Fusako Tsuchimoto, 2012 (currently Junior Economist at OECD)
Ondřej Vychodil, 2011 (currently Director for Strategy at CSOB)
Tomáš Konečný, 2009 (currently Research Economist, Czech National Bank)
GRANTS Economics of criminal procedure: theoretical and empirical analysis of criminal justice under constraints, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2015-2016.
Model for predicting the evolution of prison population, Technological Agency of the Czech Republic, 2012-2013
Exploiting policy interventions in the Czech Republic to answer general questions about criminal deterrence, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2012-2013, principal investigator Model for empirical evaluation and prediction of effects of tax policy changes,
Technological Agency of the Czech Republic, 2012-2013, co-investigator (principal investigator: Doc. Daniel Munich, PhD)
How Much Intergenerational Risk Sharing Do Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems Really Provide? Global Development Network, 2009-2010, principal investigator
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 Czech Society of Criminology, Hradec Kralove, 2015
Mini-conference on the Law and Economics of Crime, Copenhagen 2014 EMLE Midterm Meeting, Bologna, 2014
Czech Society of Criminology, Ceske Budejovice, 2014 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Philadelphia, 2013
Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, Frankfurt, 2013
European Association of Law and Economics annual meeting, Warsaw, 2013
1st Maastricht Workshop on the Economics of Enforcement, 2013
Czech Society of Criminology, Prague, 2013
Italian Society of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, Rome, 2012 Days of Law, Masaryk University, 2012
European Association of Law and Economics annual meeting, Hamburg, 2011 Prague Economic Meeting, CERGE-EI, 2011
Synergising Political Economy Research in Central and Eastern Europe, Central European University, Budapest, 2011
Czech Economics Association conference, Prague 2010 Paris-Bonn Workshop in Law and Economics, Bonn, 2010 GDN regional conference, Prague, 2010
American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Princeton, 2010 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Los Angeles, 2009
Seoul National University, Department of Economics Seminar, 2009
WDA/SCALA Workshop on Pension Challenges and the Financial Crisis, University of St. Gallen, 2009
European Association of Law and Economics annual meeting, Haifa, 2008
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 Economic 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
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 Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy, International Review of Law and Economics, Review of Development Economics, Finance a uver, Prague Economic Papers, IDEA publications
PROFESSIONAL Economic Council of the Regions, 2012
SERVICE Government Legislative Council, Working Commission on the Regulatory Impact Assessment, since 2011
Academic Council, Jihlava Polytechnical College, since 2007 Board of Directors, Nadace CERGE-EI, 2008-2010
Departmental Council 7, Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2005-2008
Popular-science contributions to „Jiné právo“ blog (jinepravo.blogspot.cz) Popular science articles in the press, media appearances (about 4 times per year)
REFERENCES Casey B. Mulligan [email protected]
Gary S. Becker [email protected]
Steven D. Levitt [email protected]
