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In the recently released 2018 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, Economics at Charles University ranks 109^th out of 1250 ranked universities worldwide.

Read more …Economics at Charles University Ranks 109th

It is our honor to inform you that Prof. Christopher Sims (Princeton University), Nobel Prize Laureate and current member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Charles University on November 20, 2017 at 2:00 pm.

The ceremony will take place at the historic Charles University Karolinum (Ovocny trh 3, Prague 1, Czech Republic).

To honor this very special occasion, we cordially invite you to the ceremony and the reception which will follow.

Please RSVP by November 16, 2017.

Read more …Invitation to the Honorary Doctorate Ceremony for Prof. Christopher Sims

CERGE-EI invites all interested in chess to the Bank Chess Festival organized by the Prague Chess Society and hosted by the Czech National Bank (CNB) and CERGE-EI. The festival will take place in two beautiful venues: the building of CNB (28 - 30 November) and then continuing in CERGE-EI’s Schebek Palace (1 - 3 December). 

Read more …Bank Chess Festival to Take Place at CERGE-EI

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 was awarded to Richard H. Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics, a relatively new field that bridges the gap between economics and psychology. Thaler’s research investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human.

Richard H. Thaler is  the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Source: https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/10/09/richard-thaler-wins-nobel-prize-his-contributions-behavioural-economics

Monday, September 18 is the first day of the 2017/2018 academic year at CERGE-EI. This year, we welcome 29 first-year students from 14 countries into our PhD program and 9 students from 6 countries into our MA in Applied Economics program. We wish good luck to them all!

Throughout the academic year, in addition to attending their graduate study program classes, CERGE-EI students benefit from numerous extracurricular activities, including research seminars, conferences, public lectures, roundtables and the Economics Discovery Hub.