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CERGE-EI is delighted to announce the names of five distinguished academics who have recently joined the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI: Christopher Sims (Princeton University), J. Peter Neary (Oxford University), George J. Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), Kevin Miles Murphy (University of Chicago), Larry Samuelson (Yale University).

Read more …New Distinguished Professors Including Nobel Prize Laureate Have Joined the ESC

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category goes in this fifth edition to U.S. mathematician Paul Milgrom “for his seminal contributions to an unusually wide range of fields of economics including auctions, market design, contracts and incentives, industrial economics, economics of organizations, finance, and game theory,” in the words of the prize jury.

Read more …Paul Milgrom Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The highlights of the year 2012 by Štěpán Jurajda, Director of CERGE-EI (Download PDF).

Read more …CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2012

We are pleased to announce that Marek Kapička, an Associate Professor with Tenure at CERGE-EI as of September 2013, has obtained the J.E. Purkyně Fellowship. The Fellowship will help facilitate his transition back to Prague following a distinguished career in the United States.

Read more …Marek Kapička Receives J. E. Purkyně Fellowship

Two accomplished CERGE-EI Junior Researchers, Anna Kochanova and Vahagn Yerbashian, won the third place in the competition for young economists with their paper "The impact of telecommunication technologies on competition in services and goods markets: Empirical Evidence". The prize is awarded annually by the Czech Economic Society.