Jan Fidrmuc
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Economics and Finance
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD in Economics (Tilburg)
- MA in Economics (Columbia, MO)
- BSc in Accounting (Bratislava)
Personal Biography
Jan Fidrmuc is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Finance. His research interests include political economy, economic development, institutional economics and labor/family economics. He has published his research in leading European and international peer-reviewed journals, including the European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Electoral Studies.
Jan Fidrmuc obtained his PhD from Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 1999. Before coming to Brunel, he held appointments at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of Bonn University, Trinity College Dublin and European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) of Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2010) Belot, M. and Fidrmuc, J., Anthropometry of love: Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages, Economics and Human Biology 8 (3) : 361- 372
(2009) Fidrmuc, J., Ginsburgh, V. and Weber, S., Voting on the choice of core languages in the European Union, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 25 (1) : 56- 62
(2009) Fidrmuc, J. and Tichit, A., Mind the break! Accounting for changing patterns of growth during transition, Economic Systems 33 (2) : 138- 154
(2008) Fidrmuc, J., Money can’t buy me growth: making change happen in post-communist countries?, Seoul Journal of Economics 21 (3) : 427- 452
(2008) Fidrmuc, J. and Gërxhani, K., Mind the gap! Social capital, East and West, Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (2) : 264- 286
(2007) Fidrmuc, J. and Ginsburgh, V., Languages in the European Union: the quest for equality and its cost, European Economic Review 51 (6) : 1351- 1369
(2007) Fidrmuc, JP. and Fidrmuc, J., Fire the manager to improve performance? Managerial turnover and incentives after privatization in the Czech Republic, Economics of Transition 15 (3) : 505- 533
(2006) Doyle, O. and Fidrmuc, J., Who favors enlargement?: Determinants of support for EU membership in the candidate countries' referenda, European Journal of Political Economy 22 (2) : 520- 543
(2006) Fidrmuc, JP. and Fidrmuc, J., Can you teach old dogs new tricks? On complementarity of human capital and incentives, Journal of International Money and Finance 25 (3) : 445- 458
(2006) Fidrmuc, J. and Jackson, JE., Introduction to symposium on: Job destruction, job creation, and voting in post-communist societies, European Journal of Political Economy 22 (2) : 345- 348
(2004) Fidrmuc, J. and Maurel, M., Optimum choice of the exchange-rate regime for the accession-candidate countries, Journal of Comparative Economics 32 (2) : 197- 201
(2004) Fidrmuc, J., Migration and regional adjustment to asymmetric shocks in transition economies, Journal of Comparative Economics 32 (2) : 230- 247
(2003) Fidrmuc, J., Economic reform, democracy and growth during post-communist transition, European Journal of Political Economy 19 (3) : 583- 604
