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The highlights of the year 2016 by Michal Kejak, Director of CERGE-EI
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Read more …CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2016

This year, for the very first time, CERGE-EI organized a joint educational and research project for high school students called “Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students”. The aim of this program was to give talented students the opportunity to get acquainted with the basics of economics and current research topics and methods, as well as to pursue their own research.

Read more …Results of the “Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students”

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that its Researcher Julie Chytilová has won the 2016 Czech Minister of Education´s Award for Excellence in Research, Experimental Development and Innovation.

Read more …Julie Chytilova Awarded the Czech Education Minister´s Prize

We are excited to announce that four CERGE-EI community members received awards at last Saturday’s meeting of the Czech Economic Society (CSE).

Read more …Czech Economic Society Awards Go to Four CERGE-EI Community Members

On Monday 21 November 2016, we saw the five finalists of the New Economic Talent 2016 student competition (Barna Elek Szabó, Central European University, Levente Lippenszky, Eötvös Loránd University, Ondřej Tobek, University of Cambridge, Michal Šoltés, Charles University, Institute of Economic Studies and Zsofia Komuves, Central European University) present their paper to the CERGE-EI evaluation committee. The finalist’s papers were selected from a possible 89 papers that came from 30 different countries. During the first stage, the evaluation committee selected the top 12 papers and the top 5 were invited to attend the final stage. During the final stage, the 5 finalists gave excellent presentations and the evaluation committee (Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley; Sergey Slobodyan, CERGE-EI; Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI) offered feedback and recommendations for future research and awarded the winning places in 1st and joint 2nd place.  

Read more …Results of the New Economic Talent 2016 Student Competition: Congratulations to the Winners!