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The Spanish-based BBVA Foundation has awarded its fourth "Frontiers of Knowledge" Award in the category of Economics, Finance and Management to British economist Angus Deaton, who is a professor at Princeton University and who also previously served as a member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) from 1996-1999.

The CERGE-EI Foundation post-doctorate teaching fellowships are intended to support economists who obtained their PhD in the United States or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe (including the countries of the former Soviet Union). The fellowship is $7,200 per year and is guaranteed to be provided for 3 years. If the program receives sufficient funding in the future, the fellowships may be renewed. The fellowship funding is over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach. For further information and a downloadable application form, please visit the CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Teaching Fellows page.

The deadline for submitting applications is Friday May 25, 2012.

CERGE-EI's faculty and the IDEA project earned high accolades from the Czech business weekly Profit in its article on the most influential economists in the country. According to the magazine's custom-made index, Jan Švejnar is the third most publicly visible Czech economist. Among academic economists (ranked according to the RePEc index) CERGE-EI dominates with six faculty members and two graduates in the top ten.

Profit reserved special praise for the IDEA project which it described as the only independent policy oriented think tank in the country. While bemoaning the lack of other similar centers dedicated to evidence-based research and policy making, the article extolled IDEA’s achievements in analyzing and evaluating the government’s current tax and pension reforms and in developing an original proposal for economic reforms.

You can read the whole article in its original Czech version here.