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CERGE-EI faculty Filip Matějka has been awarded the Minister of Education Youth and Sports Prize for outstanding results in social sciences research. Filip is one of the two Czech scientists who received the prize this year.

Read more …Filip Matějka Awarded by the Czech Education Minister for Outstanding Research

CERGE-EI’s Radek Janhuba and Jakub Grossmann have recently been awarded for their research.

Read more …Recent Successes of CERGE-EI Students and Graduates

CERGE-EI is joining the upcoming celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution with a special event that will introduce current economic research to the broader public and academics from other fields: “30 Years After the Velvet Revolution: From Transition Economics to Global Topics.” Our researchers, together with two special guests, will present their work on 15 November 2019.

Read more …CERGE-EI Researchers To Present Current Economic Research

A prestigious Nature Index web has informed about a study on globalization of science conducted by IDEA researchers Vít Macháček a Martin Srholec. The study compares globalization of science across 174 countries, 27 disciplines and 13 years in an interactive way. The more often researchers publish in the same journals as their peers abroad, the more globalized their research is.

Read more …Nature Index Writes About IDEA Study on Globalization of Science

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". 

Read more …Economics Nobel Prize for Work on Easing Poverty