Dr Tomáš Lichard has served as an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia since 2023. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the Prague University of Economics and Business, and a CERGE-EI Teaching Fellow. Dr Lichard’s area of research is empirical public and labor economics, and applied microeconomics. He has also served as an expert in the public sector, such as the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic, and as an OECD local expert. As a researcher, he has been affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
He holds dual doctorate degree from the Charles University in Prague and the University of the State of New York.
Education:
- PhD in Economics, CERGE-EI and Charles University
- MA in Economics, CERGE-EI
- MSc in International Relations, University of Economics in Bratislava
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Areas of research: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
Areas of teaching: Quantitative Methods in Economics, Microeconomics, Development Economics, Public Economics
Current Research projects:
Firm Responses to Corporate Income Tax Minimums: New Evidence From Tax Records in Slovakia (with Ján Palguta, Jaroslav Bukovina, and Branislav Žúdel)
Effects of Tax Designation Mechanism on Tax Compliance: An Experimental Study (with Luboš Cingl and Tomáš Miklánek)
Every Vote Counts: Evidence on Corruption Culture Peer Effects from Representatives’ Voting Attendance
Labor Markets in Central Europe in Challenging Times
Selected publications:
Lichard, T., Pertold F., & Škoda, S. Do Women Face Glass Ceiling at Home? The Division of Household Work Among Dual-earner Couples, The Review of Economics of the Household, 19, 1209–1243 (2021).
Lichard, T., Hanousek, J. & Filer, R.K. Hidden in Plain Sight: Using Household Data to Measure the Shadow Economy, Empirical Economics, 60, 1449–1476 (2021).
Filer, R.K., Hanousek, J., Lichard, T., & Torosyan, K. (2019). ‘Flattening’ the Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Post- Communist Natural Experiment, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 27 (1), 223-246 (2019).
Lavička, H., Lichard, T., & Novotný, J. (2016). Sand in the Wheels or the Wheels in Sand? Tobin Taxes and Market Crashes, International Review of Financial Analysis, 47, 328-342 (2016).
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