doc. PhDr. Martin Gregor, Ph.D.

Martin Gregor is an applied theorist interested in corporate finance, corporate governance, organizational economics, and accounting and economics. His papers have been cited, among others, in top journals in Finance (Review of Financial Studies), Management (Management Science), Accounting (Journal of Accounting Research), and Political Science (Americal Political Science Review). His work has been presented, among others, at MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, NYU Stern School of Business, and Yale School of Management.

Education

2007 PhD in Economics, Charles University
2002 MA in Political Science, Charles University

Work experience

2024+ Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2016+ Associate Professor in Economics, Charles University
2010-23 Director, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2007-10 Deputy Director, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2007-16 Assistant Professor in Economics, Charles University

Monographs

• Gregor M. (2005). Nová politická ekonomie. Karolinum.
• Gregor M. (2005). Politický a ekonomický slang. Triton.
• Gregor M. (2008). Vzestup a pád národů : ekonomický růst, stagflace a společenská rigidita. Liberální institut.

Chapters in monographs

• Gregor M. (2007). E-pressure through Internet against Monopoly. Encyclopaedia of digital government (pp. 708-712).
• Gregor M. (2011). Politika a ekonomie: úvod do ekonomických analýz politiky. Úvod do studia politiky (pp. 253-277).
• Gregor M. (2004). Trendy fiskálního federalismu v EU a ekonomika ČR. Ekonomika ČR v evropském prostoru (pp. 54-73).
• Gregor M. (2007). The consequence of e-excellence : party web sites in the Czech campaign for the 2004 European parliament. The Internet and national elections : a comparative study of web campaigning (pp. 77-91).
• Gregor M. (2004). Nevyužitý zisk z formalizace : případ rakouské ekonomie. Filosofické základy metodologie ekonomických věd III (pp. 159-196).
• Smith M., & Gregor M. (2009). Modelování místních referend iniciovaných občany ve střední a východní Evropě. Občané v politice (pp. 50-62).

Articles

• Gregor M., & Smith M. (2013). Civic initiatives in the context of legal uncertainty. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 25(1), 36-62. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2005). The evolutionary analysis of economic policy. Journal of Economic Issues, 39(1), 280-282. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2011). Tradeoffs of foreign assistance for the weakest-link global public goods. International Tax and Public Finance, 18(2), 233-251. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2004). Public choice : models, methods and applications. Politologická revue, 10(1), 147-148.
• Gregor M. (2004). Jacek W. Mercik and Frantisek Turnovec, eds.: Regional dimension of economic integration in extending European Union. Journal of European Integration, 26(2), 191-192.
• Gregor M. (2006). Hodnocení ekonomických pracovišť a ekonomů : koho, proč, čím a jak. Politická ekonomie, 54(3), 394-414. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2011). Tradeoffs of foreign assistance for the weakest-link global public goods. International Tax and Public Finance, 18(2), 233-251. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2008). Rozpočtová pravidla a rozpočtový proces : teorie, empirie a realita České republiky. Politická ekonomie, 56(4), 484-504. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2008). On the strategic non-complementarity of complements. Economics Bulletin, 8(3), 1-7.
• Gregor M., & Roháč D. (2009). The optimal state aid control : no control. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Oeconomica, Czech Economic Review, 3(1), 93-113.
• Gregor M. (2009). Pradeep Chhibber & Ken Kollman: The formation of national party systems. Review of Political Economy, 20(1), 350-352.
• Gregor M., & Schneider O. (2005). The world is watching : rankings of Czech and Slovak economics departments. Finance a úvěr, 55(11-12), 518-530. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2015). Task divisions in teams with complementary tasks. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117(September), 102-120. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2015). To Invite or Not to Invite a Lobby, That Is the Question. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 15(2), 143-166. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2012). Contest for power in organizations. Economics Letters, 114(3), 280-283. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2016). A three-stage model of inter-jurisdictional public spending spillovers. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 9(2), 201-217.
• Gregor M., & Šťastná L. (2012). The decentralization tradeoff for complementary spillovers. Review of Economic Design, 16(1), 41-69. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2021). Electives Shopping, Grading Policies and Grading Competition. Economica, 88(350), 364-398. UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2016). Tullock's puzzle in pay-and-play lobbying. Economics and Politics, 28(3), 368-389. UT-WOS link
• Tuchyňa P., & Gregor M. (2007). Centralization trade-off with non-uniform taxation. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Oeconomica, Czech Economic Review, 1(3), 223-253.
• Šťastná L., & Gregor M. (2015). Public sector efficiency in transition and beyond: Evidence from Czech local governments. Applied Economics, 47(7), 680-699. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

• Gregor M. (2013). Ekonomická politika a politická ekonomie dnes. Soudobá ekonomie očima tří generací: dvacet let ekonomie na Univerzitě Karlově (pp. 103-112).
• Gregor M. (2008). Markets vs politics: correcting erroneous beliefs differently. Explorations in Austrian economics (pp. 55-78). UT-WOS link
• Gregor M. (2005). Vzestup a pád konfesí : přístup evoluční teorie her. 5th International Conference of PhD Students (pp. 313-323).
• Gregor M. (2004). Governing fiscal commons in an enlarged EU. Rozvoj české společnosti v Evropské unii. II, Ekonomie, Politologie (pp. 130-159).
• Gregor M. (2017). Lobbying Mechanisms. State, Institutions and Democracy: Contributions of Political Economy (pp. 17-52). UT-WOS link
• Šťastná L., & Gregor M. (2008). Jurisdictional competition via spending composition : the case of the Czech Republic. Space and historical time as dimensions of social change (pp. 25-44). UT-WOS link

2005 Karel Engliš Award
2004 Alumni Award
2002 Bolzano Prize

JEM013 - Game Theory
JEB064 - Game Theory and Applications

I will happily supervise undergraduate and Master theses in economics and finance in the following broad areas:

• applied microeconomic theory: information economics (strategic communication, expertise, advisors, persuasion, communication under social pressure, information design), auctions and contests (all-pay vs winner-pay auctions, competition with endogenous prizes, auctions in finance, takeover contests, tournaments)
• management and organizations: decision-making and agency issues in corporations and other organizations (contracting, delegation, communication, decentralization, voting, committees, absolute and relative performance schemes), models of policy-making (platform competition, coalition formation, lobbying)
• corporate governance: boards, director networks, proxy advisors, shareholder voting, shareholder coalitions, shareholder heterogeneity especially with respect to ESG, ownership structures, blockholders, minority shareholders
• financial contracting: information asymmetries, venture capital contracting, trade credit
• finance: ESG investing
• political finance: corporate lobbying, political connections
• industrial organization: product disclosures and certifications, CSR certifications

I am working as an applied theorist, but I am also happy to supervise any empirical project with reliable data and a sufficiently credible research design. Within the topics above, I am also open to cross-disciplinary works related not only to economics and finance but also to accounting, management science, and political science.

Principal Investigator: Czech Science Foundation 20-03517S, Individual characteristics of corporate boards directors and corporate outcomes

applied microeconomic theory, corporate governance and corporate finance, organizational economics and management, political economy