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CERGE-EI invites all interested in chess to the Bank Chess Festival organized by the Prague Chess Society and hosted by the Czech National Bank (CNB) and CERGE-EI. The festival will take place in two beautiful venues: the building of CNB (28 - 30 November) and then continuing in CERGE-EI’s Schebek Palace (1 - 3 December). 

Read more …Bank Chess Festival to Take Place at CERGE-EI

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 was awarded to Richard H. Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics, a relatively new field that bridges the gap between economics and psychology. Thaler’s research investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human.

Richard H. Thaler is  the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Source: https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/10/09/richard-thaler-wins-nobel-prize-his-contributions-behavioural-economics

Monday, September 18 is the first day of the 2017/2018 academic year at CERGE-EI. This year, we welcome 29 first-year students from 14 countries into our PhD program and 9 students from 6 countries into our MA in Applied Economics program. We wish good luck to them all!

Throughout the academic year, in addition to attending their graduate study program classes, CERGE-EI students benefit from numerous extracurricular activities, including research seminars, conferences, public lectures, roundtables and the Economics Discovery Hub.

This was the second year that the MA in Applied Economics (MAE) program, which aims to develop data-driven changemakers, has opened with Discovery Week — a very intensive and fascinating start to the program. Almost all of this year’s students arrived in Prague a week early to participate in Discovery Week, and they are sure that it was the right decision.

Read more …The 2017/18 MAE Program Opened with an Applied Human-Centered Design Project

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, September 13, CERGE-EI Alumna, Martina Lubyová (PhD 2002) was appointed by the president of the Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska, to lead the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport. Martina Lubyová previously served as  Director of the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) and more recently, she was Deputy Director of SAV’s Center for Social and Psychological Sciences.

For more information on the successful placements of CERGE-EI alumni, please visit our website.