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Based on the recommendation of the Executive and Supervisory Committee, the CERGE-EI Board of Trustees has recently promoted Filip Matějka to the position of Associate Professor with tenure and Daniel Műnich to the position of Professor of Professional Practice with an indefinite contract.

This double promotion comes only a few weeks after the announcement regarding the hiring of five new full-time CERGE-EI faculty members. The year 2016 thus ranks among the most important hiring and promotion successes in CERGE-EI´s history.

Professor Christopher Sims of Princeton University, the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics and a member of CERGE-EI’s Executive and Supervisory Committee, has been awarded the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Karel Engliš Honorary Medal for Merit in the Social and Economic Sciences. The presentation of the medal by Prof. Jiří Drahoš, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, became one of the highlights of the CERGE-EI 25th Anniversary Gala held on May 27th. The laudatio speech was delivered by Prof. Henry Farber of Princeton University.

Read more …Karel Engliš Honorary Medal presented to Prof. Christopher Sims at the 25th Anniversary Gala

At CERGE-EI we award MA in Economics and PhD in Economics degrees twice per year, in May and November, when our CERGE-EI Board of Trustees meets. However, we celebrate the occasion once per year in May during Graduation Ceremony, which has been in the past four years also followed by the graduation Gala evening.

Read more …Congratulations to PhD and MA in Economics Graduates

In the lead up to the 25th Anniversary celebrations, CERGE-EI called upon it’s community to identify alumni who have made a considerable social impact in their community. On Friday 27 May Jan Švejnar presented the Alumni Awards to Gurgen Aslanyan and Jindřich Gallo. Congratulations to our two exceptional graduates!

Read more …CERGE-EI Alumni Awards Announced at 25th Anniversary Gala

“Dirty Drilling” has been grinding hard to be announced the most Freshhh in 2016. Congratulations to Linda Do and Marek Rakowski, CERGE-EI Master’s in Applied Economics students, who were a part of the winning team “Dirty Drilling” in MOL’s Freshhh competition 2016.

Read more …CERGE-EI Students Win 2016 Freshhh Competition