Titl, Vítězslav

Employment

Charles University, the Czech Republic 01/2021 – present Senior Researcher (part-time), Principal Investigator of a Junior STAR project.

Utrecht University, the Netherlands 11/2020 – present Assistant Professor of Law & Economics (tenured)

Other Affiliation

KU Leuven, Belgium 11/2020 – present Researcher

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 09/2015 – present Researcher

Education

KU Leuven, Belgium 11/2016 – 09/2020 PhD in Economics

• Supervised by Prof. Kristof De Witte and Prof. Benny Geys

• Dissertation Topic: “The Role of Political Connections and Institutions in Public Procurement”

• Research visits: Bocconi University (Fall 2019; host: Prof. Francesco Decarolis) and Princeton University (Spring 2020; host: Prof. Jakub Kastl)

Areas of Expertise

Political economy, law & economics, industrial organization Professional

Publications

Baranek, B. and V. Titl (2024). The Costs of Favoritism in Public Procurement. Forthcoming Journal of Law and Economics.

Titl, V., D. Mazrekaj, and F. Schiltz (2023). Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Titl, V. and De Witte, K. (2022). How Politics Influence Public Good Provision. SocioEconomic Planning Sciences.

Titl, V., De Witte, K. and Geys, B. (2021). Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency. World Development,

Titl, V. and Geys, B. (2019). Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts. European Economic Review. Volume 111, p. 443-458.

Books/Chapters

Baranek, B. V. Titl. (2021). Political connections in public procurement. In Ed. Bandiera, O., Bosio, E. and G. Spagnolo, Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies (pp. 43-52). CEPR PRESS. https://voxeu.org/content/procurementfocus-rules-discretion-and-emergencies

De Witte, K., Titl, V., Holz O. and M. Smet (2019). Financing Quality Education For All The Funding Methods of Compulsory and Special Needs Education. Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-94-627-0191-5, Leuven: Belgium. Anotated in Journal of Economic Literature 59(1), p. 333-334.

Titl, V., Palansk´y M. and J. Skuhrovec (2015). Analysis of Political Party Donations [in Czech]. In V. Simicek (Ed.), Funding of Political Life (pp. 155-174). Masaryk University Press. ISBN 978-80-210-7994-6, Brno: Czech Republic.

Grants

DemoTrans – The Interchange Between Democratic Institutions and the Globalisation of the Economy, Horizon Europe RIA, Coordinator at UU, 2022- 2026, (0.75m out of 2.7m euro) The Role of Institutional Factors and Information in Public Procurement Markets,

JUNIOR STAR Grant of the Czech Science Foundation, PI 2021-2025, (242k euro)

The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics, with Bruno Baranek and Leon Musolff, Harvard University, CO-PI 2020 ($10k)