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Win a trip to London! First Alumni Award for Best Paper Now Open for Submissions from current CERGE-EI Students!

It is my pleasure to announce the first Alumni Award for Best Student Paper. The winner will get a fully paid trip to our second London Alumni Meeting which is being held on 16 March and for which we have teamed up with the Legatum Institute and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. There will be a Panel Discussion “The Shadow Economy – Impact on Innovation, East and West” and it will be a great opportunity to meet CERGE-EI alumni and many other interesting guests.

Read more …Alumni Award for the Best CERGE-EI Student Paper Now Open for Submissions

Take one ambitious and curious junior researcher. Give him three months in a city that is home to some of the world’s top learning institutions. Offer him the chance to test his ideas with thought leaders in his field. What happened? Find out on our blog.

Did you know that there are more than 6500 think tanks around the world? Many play an important role in shaping government and civil society but it can be difficult to judge the extent of their contributions. For 8 years, the Think Tanks & Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania has published an annual index of think tanks that has been described as "the insider's guide to the global marketplace of ideas."

Read more …Quality of CERGE-EI Research Recognized in the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index!

Are you interested in contemporary economics? Would you like to study at an economics institute which is ranked among the top 2% in the world according to SSRN? Join us for our Open Day on 6 March, 2015 from 13:00 and learn more about CERGE-EI and the programs we offer – PhD in Economics, MA in Applied Economics and Visiting Students programs. You will also have a chance to visit Career Services workshop and enjoy a beer party with faculty, students and alumni in the evening.

Read more …Open Day at CERGE-EI, 6 March, 2015 from 13:00

Congratulations to Andrea Šandorová, Milan Lupač and Jindřich Gallo who have advanced to the Czech Republic’s final round for this year’s CFA Research Challenge! The team of students from our MA in Applied Economics program is led by Jiří Trešl, PhD who is teaching a new course in Applied Investment Analysis at CERGE-EI.

Read more …CERGE-EI Students Advance to the Final Round of the CFA Research Challenge!