Štěpán Mikula

@stepanmikula.bsky.social

Labor Economist | Masaryk University | IZA | SYRI https://sites.google.com/site/stepanmikula/

What happens to Russia's local economy when Ukrainian drones strike oil refineries? In a new @voxeu.org column, @stepanmikula.bsky.social and I explain how we addressed this question by combining a manually verified record of Ukrainian strikes with satellite data on nighttime lights and fires. 1/4

After the fire: How Ukrainian strikes disrupt local economies around Russian refineries

Measuring the local economic effects of Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian oil refineries is difficult because reliable local data are scarce and both information and statistics are tightly contr...

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🧵 In a recent IZA Discussion Paper, @stepanmikula.bsky.social, @tommasoreggiani.bsky.social, and I study how civic culture can persist—or even emerge—under authoritarian rule. In the IZA World of Labor commentary linked below, you can also find a short non-technical summary. #EconSky 1/3

Seeds of trust: How churches helped sustain civic life behind the “iron curtain”

Safeguarding even small civic spaces can be crucial for strengthening democracy in the long run

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Without executioners, there would be no executions. Autocratic regimes rely on the legitimacy of their predecessors and the compliance of public employees at all levels. Democracy may not die in applause, but it certainly perishes through (seemingly) minor compromises with evil.

Takhle po dlouhé době otevřu článek na idnesu: "Důležité je, jak podpořit zájem pedagogů studovat PhD., což je pět let života." Fakulta zdravotnických studií Západočeské univerzity v Plzni. Jedna se o hodnotný příspěvek do diskuse o zřizování a nafukování regionálních vysokých škol.

Dovolil bych si jedno upřesnění. Navzdory zprávám o aktuálním dění v Brně stále platí to, že MUNI je univerzita, která jako přidruženou aktivitu provozovala kino. Opravdu to není naopak. Alespoň doufám.