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The CERGE-EI brand has received several high-profile media appearances in recent days, both in the local and the global media [for the Czech media, all links are to pieces in Czech]. On Thursday, May 31, the front page leading article of the highest-profile Czech business daily Hospodářské noviny discussed the 2012 IMD World Competitiveness Index. CERGE-EI researchers collaborated on the data collection for the Czech Republic, and Vilém Semerák commented on the IMD results in an interview.

Read more …A Cornucopia of Media Coverage

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.

Read more …Angus Deaton, Former ESC Member, Wins BBVA Foundation Award

Professor Philippe Aghion from Harvard University (and long-term member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee) is serving as an advisor to newly-elected French President François Hollande. He has written an op-ed piece in yesterday's Financial Times explaining what we can expect from President Hollande. We are finalizing plans with Prof. Aghion to present a lecture at CERGE-EI in June. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Read more …CERGE-EI ESC Member Philippe Aghion Writes FT Op-Ed on Incoming French President

Petar Stankov, a CERGE-EI PhD candidate, current CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor at Sofia's University of National and World Economy (UNWE) has won that university's 2012 "Teacher of the Year" award. The UNWE was recently ranked as the top university in the country by the Bulgarian Institute for National Policy. Its student community organized the teacher award for the first time this year with all students eligible to vote. A total of two awards were made, one for full professors and one for assistant professors, the latter being won by Petar. Nearly 600 teaching staff were eligible for the prize, which further illustrates the significance of the award.

Read more …PhD Student Wins Distinguished Bulgarian Teaching Award

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).

Read more …CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships—Call for Applications