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Professor Philippe Aghion from Harvard University (and long-term member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee) is serving as an advisor to newly-elected French President François Hollande. He has written an op-ed piece in yesterday's Financial Times explaining what we can expect from President Hollande. We are finalizing plans with Prof. Aghion to present a lecture at CERGE-EI in June. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Read more …CERGE-EI ESC Member Philippe Aghion Writes FT Op-Ed on Incoming French President

Petar Stankov, a CERGE-EI PhD candidate, current CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor at Sofia's University of National and World Economy (UNWE) has won that university's 2012 "Teacher of the Year" award. The UNWE was recently ranked as the top university in the country by the Bulgarian Institute for National Policy. Its student community organized the teacher award for the first time this year with all students eligible to vote. A total of two awards were made, one for full professors and one for assistant professors, the latter being won by Petar. Nearly 600 teaching staff were eligible for the prize, which further illustrates the significance of the award.

Read more …PhD Student Wins Distinguished Bulgarian Teaching Award

The CERGE-EI Foundation post-doctorate teaching fellowships are intended to support economists who obtained their PhD in the United States or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe (including the countries of the former Soviet Union).

Read more …CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships—Call for Applications

CERGE-EI's faculty and the IDEA project earned high accolades from the Czech business weekly Profit in its article on the most influential economists in the country. According to the magazine's custom-made index, Jan Švejnar is the third most publicly visible Czech economist. Among academic economists (ranked according to the RePEc index) CERGE-EI dominates with six faculty members and two graduates in the top ten.

Read more …Czech Business Weekly Praises CERGE-EI’s Achievements

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that Jakub Steiner, a researcher at CERGE-EI, was awarded second prize in “Česká naděje 2011 – Scopus Award” for his paper “Who Matters in Coordination Problems?”

Read more …Jakub Steiner Wins Scopus Award