Publications

Every journal article, newest first. 64 journal articles by Tomas Havranek (ORCID 0000-0002-3158-2539), 50 of them republished here in full text. Working papers and preprints are not listed separately: where a paper has been published, the published version is what appears. The other half of this site's work is Zuzana Irsova's publication list.

1. 2026 Financial Incentives and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Experiments in Economics
   Petr Cala, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Martina Luskova, Jindrich Matousek, Jiri Novak
   Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics · doi · full text on this site
2. 2026 Guidance for the Use of AI in the Meta-Analysis of Economics Research
   Nikolai Cook, Frantisek Bartos, Pedro R. D. Bom, Sebastian Gechert, Klara Kantova, Jerome Geyer‐Klingeberg, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, and 5 others
   Journal of Economic Surveys · doi
3. 2020 Reporting Guidelines for Meta-Analysis in Economics—Updated for AI
   Nikolai Cook, Frantisek Bartos, Pedro R. D. Bom, Sebastian Gechert, Klara Kantova, Jerome Geyer‐Klingeberg, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, and 5 others
   Journal of Economic Surveys · doi · full text on this site
4. 2026 Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
   Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, Lenka Fiala, Thomas Brailey, Ryan Briggs, Alexandra de Gendre, Yannick Dupraz, and 339 others
   Nature 652, 151-156 · doi
5. 2025 Does Shareholder Activism Create Value? A Meta-Analysis
   Josef Bajzik, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jiri Novak
   Corporate Governance: An International Review 33, 1039-1061 · doi · full text on this site
6. 2025 Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement
   Matej Opatrny, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Milan Scasny
   Journal of Labor Economics · doi · full text on this site
7. 2025 Reducing the biases of the conventional meta-analysis of correlations
   T. D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos, Tomas Havranek
   Research Synthesis Methods 16, 42-59 · doi · full text on this site
8. 2025 Relative Risk Aversion: A Meta-Analysis
   Ali Elminejad, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
   Journal of Economic Surveys 39, 2315-2333 · doi · full text on this site
9. 2025 Spurious precision in meta-analysis of observational research
   Zuzana Irsova, Pedro R. D. Bom, Tomas Havranek, Heiko Rachinger
   Nature Communications 16 · doi · full text on this site
10. 2025 Conventional wisdom, meta-analysis, and research revision in economics
    Sebastian Gechert, Bianka Mey, Matej Opatrny, Tomas Havranek, T. D. Stanley, Pedro R. D. Bom, Hristos Doucouliagos, Philipp Heimberger, and 2 others
    Journal of Economic Surveys 39, 980-999 · doi · full text on this site
11. 2024 Meta-analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions
    T. D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos, Tomas Havranek
    Research Synthesis Methods 15, 313-325 · doi · full text on this site
12. 2024 Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Lubica Laslopova, Olesia Zeynalova
    Review of Economics and Statistics 106, 1187-1200 · doi · full text on this site
13. 2024 Student Employment and Education: A Meta-Analysis
    Katerina Kroupova, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Economics of Education Review 100, 102539 · doi · full text on this site
14. 2023 Intertemporal substitution in labor supply: A meta-analysis
    Ali Elminejad, Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath, Zuzana Irsova
    Review of Economic Dynamics 51, 1095-1113 · doi · full text on this site
15. 2024 Is research on hedge fund performance published selectively? A quantitative survey
    Fan Yang, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jiri Novak
    Journal of Economic Surveys 38, 1085-1131 · doi · full text on this site
16. 2024 Meta-analysis of social science research: A practitioner's guide
    Zuzana Irsova, Hristos Doucouliagos, Tomas Havranek, T. D. Stanley
    Journal of Economic Surveys 38, 1547-1566 · doi · full text on this site
17. 2022 Individual discount rates: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence
    Jindrich Matousek, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Experimental Economics 25, 318-358 · doi · full text on this site
18. 2022 Measuring capital-labor substitution: The importance of method choices and publication bias
    Sebastian Gechert, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Dominika Kolcunova
    Review of Economic Dynamics 45, 55-82 · doi · full text on this site
19. 2023 When Does Monetary Policy Sway House Prices? A Meta-Analysis
    Dominika Ehrenbergerova, Josef Bajzik, Tomas Havranek
    IMF Economic Review 71, 538-573 · doi · full text on this site
20. 2021 How puzzling is the forward premium puzzle? A meta-analysis
    Diana Zigraiova, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jiri Novak
    European Economic Review 134, 103714 · doi · full text on this site
21. 2020 Central Bank Equity as an Instrument of Monetary Policy
    Mojmir Hampl, Tomas Havranek
    Comparative Economic Studies 62, 49-68 · doi · full text on this site
22. 2020 Do consumers really follow a rule of thumb? Three thousand estimates from 144 studies say “probably not”
    Tomas Havranek, Anna Sokolova
    Review of Economic Dynamics 35, 97-122 · doi · full text on this site
23. 2020 Does daylight saving time save electricity? Evidence from Slovakia
    Peter Kudela, Tomas Havranek, Dominik Herman, Zuzana Irsova
    Energy Policy 137, 111146 · doi · full text on this site
24. 2020 Estimating the Armington elasticity: The importance of study design and publication bias
    Josef Bajzik, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jiri Schwarz
    Journal of International Economics 127, 103383 · doi · full text on this site
25. 2020 Foreign capital and domestic productivity in the Czech Republic: a meta-regression analysis
    Mojmir Hampl, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Applied Economics 52, 1949-1958 · doi · full text on this site
26. 2020 Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis
    Alina Cazachevici, Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath
    World Development 134, 105021 · doi · full text on this site
27. 2020 Reporting Guidelines for Meta-Analysis in Economics
    Tomas Havranek, T. D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos, Pedro Bom, Jerome Geyer‐Klingeberg, Ichiro Iwasaki, W. Robert Reed, Katja Rost, R. C. M. van Aert
    Journal of Economic Surveys 34, 469-475 · doi · full text on this site
28. 2019 Firm Size and Stock Returns: A Quantitative Survey
    Anton Astakhov, Tomas Havranek, Jiri Novak
    Journal of Economic Surveys 33, 1463-1492 · doi · full text on this site
29. 2019 Forecasting tourist arrivals: Google Trends meets mixed-frequency data
    Tomas Havranek, Ayaz Zeynalov
    Tourism Economics 27, 129-148 · doi
30. 2018 Does Daylight Saving Save Electricity? A Meta-Analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Dominik Herman, Zuzana Irsova
    The Energy Journal 39, 35-61 · doi · full text on this site
31. 2018 Estimating the effective lower bound on the Czech national bank’s policy rate
    Dominika Kolcunova, Tomas Havranek
    Finance a Uver - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance · full text on this site
32. 2018 Measuring the income elasticity of water demand: The importance of publication and endogeneity biases
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Tomas Vlach
    Land Economics 94, 259-283 · doi · full text on this site
33. 2018 Tuition Fees and University Enrolment: A Meta-Regression Analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Olesia Zeynalova
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 80, 1145-1184 · doi · full text on this site
34. 2017 Habit formation in consumption: A meta-analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Marek Rusnak, Anna Sokolova
    European Economic Review 95, 142-167 · doi · full text on this site
35. 2017 The sources of contagion risk in a banking sector with foreign ownership
    Tomas Fiala, Tomas Havranek
    Economic Modelling 60, 108-121 · doi · full text on this site
36. 2016 Bank efficiency and interest rate pass-through: Evidence from Czech loan products
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jitka Lesanovska
    Economic Modelling 54, 153-169 · doi
37. 2017 Do Borders Really Slash Trade? A Meta-Analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    IMF Economic Review 65, 365-396 · doi · full text on this site
38. 2016 Dynamic elasticities of tax revenue: evidence from the Czech Republic
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Jiri Schwarz
    Applied Economics 48, 5866-5881 · doi
39. 2016 Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath, Ayaz Zeynalov
    World Development 88, 134-151 · doi · full text on this site
40. 2016 Bank Competition and Financial Stability: Much Ado About Nothing?
    Diana Zigraiova, Tomas Havranek
    Journal of Economic Surveys 30, 944-981 · doi · full text on this site
41. 2015 Cross-country heterogeneity in intertemporal substitution
    Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath, Zuzana Irsova, Marek Rusnak
    Journal of International Economics 96, 100-118 · doi · full text on this site
42. 2015 Income elasticity of gasoline demand: A meta-analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Ondrej Kokes
    Energy Economics 47, 77-86 · doi · full text on this site
43. 2015 Measuring intertemporal substitution: The importance of method choices and selective reporting
    Tomas Havranek
    Journal of the European Economic Association 13, 1180-1204 · doi · full text on this site
44. 2015 Selective reporting and the social cost of carbon
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Karel Janda, David Zilberman
    Energy Economics 51, 394-406 · doi · full text on this site
45. 2014 A meta-analysis of the income elasticity of money demand
    Tomas Havranek, Jana Sedlarikova
    Politicka Ekonomie 62, 366-382 · doi
46. 2012 Banking, debt, and currency crises in developed countries: Stylized facts and early warning indicators
    Jan Babecky, Tomas Havranek, Jakub Mateju, Marek Rusnak, Katerina Smidkova, Borek Vasicek
    Journal of Financial Stability 15, 1-17 · doi · full text on this site
47. 2015 Financial development and economic growth: A meta-analysis
    Petra Valickova, Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath
    Journal of Economic Surveys 29, 506-526 · doi · full text on this site
48. 2013 A meta-analysis of bank efficiency measurement in transitional countries
    Zuzana Irsova, Tomas Havranek
    Transformations in Business and Economics
49. 2013 Determinants of Bank Performance in Transition Countries: A Data Envelopment Analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Transition Studies Review 20, 1-17 · doi
50. 2013 Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis
    Zuzana Irsova, Tomas Havranek
    World Development 42, 1-15 · doi · full text on this site
51. 2013 How to Solve the Price Puzzle? A Meta-Analysis
    Marek Rusnak, Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 45, 37-70 · doi · full text on this site
52. 2013 Leading indicators of crisis incidence: Evidence from developed countries
    Jan Babecky, Tomas Havranek, Jakub Mateju, Marek Rusnak, Katerina Smidkova, Borek Vasicek
    Journal of International Money and Finance 35, 1-19 · doi · full text on this site
53. 2014 Structural reforms and growth in transition: A meta-analysis
    Jan Babecky, Tomas Havranek
    Economics of Transition 22, 13-42 · doi · full text on this site
54. 2013 Transmission lags of monetary policy: A meta-analysis
    Tomas Havranek, Marek Rusnak
    International Journal of Central Banking · full text on this site
55. 2012 Demand for gasoline is more price-inelastic than commonly thought
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Karel Janda
    Energy Economics 34, 201-207 · doi · full text on this site
56. 2012 Survey Article: Publication Bias in the Literature on Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Journal of Development Studies 48, 1375-1396 · doi · full text on this site
57. 2011 Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design
    Zuzana Irsova, Tomas Havranek
    Transition Studies Review 18, 230-270 · doi
58. 2011 Estimating vertical spillovers from FDI: Why results vary and what the true effect is
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Journal of International Economics 85, 234-244 · doi · full text on this site
59. 2011 Monetary transmission and the financial sector in the Czech Republic
    Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath, Jakub Mateju
    Economic Change and Restructuring 45, 135-155 · doi
60. 2010 Measuring bank efficiency: A meta-regression analysis
    Zuzana Irsova, Tomas Havranek
    Prague Economic Papers 19, 307-328 · doi
61. 2010 Meta-analysis of intra-industry FDI spillovers: Updated evidence
    Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova
    Finance a Uver - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance
62. 2010 On the Intensity of International Subsidy Competition for FDI
    Theoretical and Applied Economics
63. 2010 Rose effect and the euro: Is the magic gone?
    Tomas Havranek
    Review of World Economics 146, 241-261 · doi · full text on this site
64. 2009 The supply of foreign direct investment incentives: Subsidy competition in an oligopolistic framework
    Tomas Havranek
    Prague Economic Papers 18, 131-155 · doi