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The winner for this year is Cristiano Mantovani from Bocconi University in Italy. Second place and also a special prize for the best bachelor paper in the competition goes to Nodira Khaydarova from Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Third is José Javier Domínguez Ramírez from the University of Granada in Spain.  

Read more …Winners of the New Economic Talent 2015 Student Competition Announced

As part of CERGE-EI’s Distinguished Speakers Series, with generous support from Tatra Banka foundation, Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland visited CERGE-EI on Thursday 23 April, 2015. He met with several faculty members and students to discuss their research and in the afternoon gave a public lecture "Innovation  and Capital Formation in Today’s Policy Environment". You can now watch a video of the full lecture. SlidesLive version is also available.  

Read more …Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland Takes Part in Distinguished Speaker Series – Video Now Available to View

With energy security fast becoming a priority on national agendas, there are increasing career opportunities for economists with specialized energy expertise. Find out more about Energy Economics at CERGE-EI, part of our MA in Applied Economics, on our blog.

Prof Jan Švejnar, who was awarded the 2015 IZA prize, will participate in Columbia University's SIPA 2015 Leaders in Global Economic Governance Lecture: "Europe: The Current Situation and the Way Forward". The lecture will feature an address by Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Federal Minister of Finance. A panel discussion follows when Prof Švejnar will be joined by colleagues Joseph Stiglitz, Edmund Phelps and Alessandra Casella. You can watch the event live online from midnight CEST (6 p.m. EDT) on 15 April, 2015.

Read more …Euro's Suitability for the Czech Republic To Be Discussed during Debate of Leading Economists in New York

The 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Jan Švejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, New York and a Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague. The Czech economist was recognized for his work on economic issues relating to labor, development and the transition from socialist to market economies.

Read more …Jan Švejnar Wins 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics