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Second-Year Research Fellowships Recipients Announced

Three second-year students have been awarded Research Fellowships sponsored by the RSJ Foundation. The evaluation committee selected Marta Cota, Artem Razumovskii and Sona Badalyan as this year's winners.

Georgiana Puscas is the New Economic Talent 2020

Georgiana Puscas (University of Warwick) has become the winner of the sixth edition of the New Economic Talent competition. The other places were taken by Viktor Veterinarov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Raisa Khadija Muhtar (University of St Andrews) and Komila Zakirova (Westminster International University in Tashkent).

IDEA anti COVID-19 recommends investments in tracing and testing capacity

The CERGE-EI researchers involved in the "IDEA anti COVID-19" group have introduced a set of recommendations to be taken in order to reduce the risk of an uncontrolled spread of coronavirus for the upcoming weeks and months. The recommendations for the Czech authorities are based on the facts specific for the Czech Republic and on the experience from the countries that are successful in the prevention of further major outbreaks of the infection. 

New Economic Talent 2020 Finalists Announced

Raisa Khadija Muhtar (University of St Andrews), Georgiana Puscas (University of Warwick), Viktor Veterinarov (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Komila Zakirova (Westminster International University in Tashkent) have been selected as the finalists of the New Economic Talent 2020 competition. The online final round will take place on June 10, 2020.

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Botond Kőszegi and Filip Matějka. Forthcoming. “Choice Simplification: A Theory of Mental Budgeting and Naive Diversification.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Junehyuk Jung, Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Filip Matějka, and Christopher A. Sims. 2019. “Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Decision Problems.” Review of Economic Studies, 86(6): 2643–2667.

Marek Kapička and Julian Neira. 2019. “Optimal Taxation with Risky Human Capital.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11(4): 271–309.

Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag. 2019. “Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2): 176–204.

Nikolas Mittag. 2019. “Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 11(2): 142–164.

Joseph Henrich, Michal Bauer, Alessandra Cassar, Julie Chytilová, and Benjamin Grant Purzycki. 2019. “War Increases Religiosity.” Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2): 129–135.

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, and Tomáš Želinský. 2018. “Social Contagion of Ethnic Hostility.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(19): 4881–4886.

Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero. 2018. “Learning in Network Games.” Quantitative Economics, 9(1): 85–139.

Ángel Hernando-Veciana and Fabio Michelucci. 2018. “Inefficient Rushes in Auction.” Theoretical Economics, 13(1): 273–306.

Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala, and Ian Levely. 2018. “Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration After Civil War.” Economic Journal, 128(613): 1786–1819.

Suzanne K. Barth, Nikolas Mittag, and Kyung H. Park. 2019. “Voter Response to Hispanic Sounding Names: Evidence from Down-Ballot Statewide Elections.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 14(4): 401–437.

Sharon Belenzon, Anastasiya Shamshur, and Rebecca Zarutskie. 2019. “CEO's Age and the Performance of Closely Held Firms.” Strategic Management Journal, 40(6): 917–944.

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