Filip Matějka, Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, has been elected Vice-President of the European Economic Association (EEA) and will serve as its President in 2029.
CERGE-EI's Talking Economics podcast welcomes new host Andrew Gardiner, bringing fresh economic perspectives to a wider audience. In the latest episode, Gardiner speaks with Oleg Itskhoki, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and recipient of the 2022 John Bates Clark Medal.
Can regulations designed to protect banks actually make them less safe? And what happens when private companies start issuing their own money? These are among the questions explored by Maxi Guennewig, a new faculty member at CERGE-EI.
From health behavior and identity to household finance, scientific networks and the political economy of industrialization, CERGE-EI’s new job-market cohort reflects the widening range of both questions and methods in contemporary economics.
A program run in cooperation of CERGE-EI and Prague University of Economics and Business
Korovkin Vasily, and Alexey Makarin. 2023. “Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis.” American Economic Review, 113(1): 34–70.
Buchholz, Nicholas, Laura Doval, Jakub Kastl, Filip Matejka, and Tobias Salz. 2025. “Personalized Pricing and the Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides.” Econometrica, 93(3): 929–958.
Ottinger, Sebastian, and Nico Voigtländer. 2025. “History’s Masters The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance.” Econometrica, 93(1): 95–128.
Mackowiak, Bartosz, Filip Matejka, and Mirko Wiederholt. 2023. “Rational Inattention: A Review.” Journal of Economic Literature, 61(1): 226–273.
Ahrens, Achim, Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Damian Kozbur, Mark E. Schaffer, and Thomas Wiemann. Forthcoming. “An Introduction to Double/Debiased Machine Learning.” Journal of Economic Literature.
Samuelson, Larry, and Jakub Steiner. 2025. “Growth and Redistribution: The Hedging Perspective.” American Economic Review: Insights, 7(2): 250–267.
Ochsner, Christian, and Felix Roesel. 2024. “Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(3): 76–112.
Robson, Arthur, Larry Samuelson, and Jakub Steiner. 2023. “Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth.” American Economic Review: Insights, 5(3): 357–376.
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, and Christoph T. Weiss. 2026. "Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Managerial Decisions." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 18(3): 413–54.
Kina, Özlem, Ctirad Slavík, and Hakki Yazici. 2024. “Redistributive Capital Taxation Revisited.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(2): 182–216.
Ashenfelter, Orley, and Štěpán Jurajda. Forthcoming. “The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison.” Review of Economics and Statistics.
Celhay, Pablo, Bruce D. Meyer, and Nikolas Mittag. Forthcoming. “Stigma in Welfare Programs.” Review of Economics and Statistics.
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