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Artificial Intelligence as a Data Guardian: Researchers from VŠE Are Contributing to a Next-Generation Security System
Security systems can detect suspicious handling of sensitive data, but they do not always correctly determine whether it represents a real threat. The project “Next Gen User Interface Using Local AI” will develop a solution that enables risks to be assessed more accurately and appropriate responses to be selected. The Faculty of Economics at the […]
Resilience Is Not a Coincidence. Companies Should Not See Competitive Intelligence as Mere Analytics.
How can Competitive Intelligence (CI) contribute to building organizational resilience in an environment of hypercompetition, digital disruption and growing uncertainty? A new study by a research team from the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at Prague University of Economics and Business shows that CI cannot be understood merely as a technical process of data collection […]
How AI Identifies Words That Predict Higher Citation Rates of Research Articles
Artificial intelligence can now estimate which research publications will be successful and which will not. New research goes even further: it aims to show which words in an abstract contribute most to this estimate and also explains the reasons behind it. This enables authors of scientific studies and evaluators to better understand the factors that […]
A Voice That Is Not Heard: Invisible Work and Women’s Talent in Czech Micro-enterprises
Imagine a small workplace where people learn mostly on the job and where close working relationships shape everyday life. It might seem that in such an environment, talent would naturally come to the fore. However, research by Zdena Hrušková and Lenka Komárková from the Faculty of Management at Prague University of Economics and Business shows […]
Debt Limit Works. Mayors Respond Before Sanctions Are Imposed.
What makes a mayor keep municipal debt under control? The threat that a municipality may lose part of its tax revenues, or the fear of being publicly labelled fiscally irresponsible? New research by Lucie Sedmihradská and Markéta Arltová from the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the Prague University of Economics and Business, published in […]
Across Disciplines Against Inequality: The CONOS Project Opens Up Key Issues of Our Time
An expert workshop focused on research into social inequalities took place at Prague University of Economics and Business on 17 June as part of the CONOS project (Center for Issues of Inequality and Open Society). The project brings together experts from law, economics, psychology and political science, and seeks answers to key questions facing contemporary […]
Trust in media is closely linked to the rule of law, new study finds
Why do people in some countries trust the media, while in others they remain deeply skeptical? A new large-scale study published by Journal of Law and Economics offers an answer. According to the authors – including Niclas Berggren from the Faculty of Business Administration at the Prague University of Economics and Business – trust in […]
Why Inequality Makes Cooperation Harder
What happens to trust and cooperation when one side has more to gain than the other? This question is at the center of a new experiment by Alessandro Stringhi, a researcher at the Faculty of Business Administration of the Prague University of Economics and Business, published in Games and Economic Behavior. Throughout the history of […]
