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This was the second year that the MA in Applied Economics (MAE) program, which aims to develop data-driven changemakers, has opened with Discovery Week — a very intensive and fascinating start to the program. Almost all of this year’s students arrived in Prague a week early to participate in Discovery Week, and they are sure that it was the right decision.

Read more …The 2017/18 MAE Program Opened with an Applied Human-Centered Design Project

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, September 13, CERGE-EI Alumna, Martina Lubyová (PhD 2002) was appointed by the president of the Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska, to lead the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport. Martina Lubyová previously served as  Director of the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) and more recently, she was Deputy Director of SAV’s Center for Social and Psychological Sciences.

For more information on the successful placements of CERGE-EI alumni, please visit our website.

It is with deep sadness that we inform you that doc. Ing. Milan Horniaček, CSc. died on September 10, 2017.

Read more …Doc. Milan Horniaček - Obituary

We are happy to announce that CERGE-EI faculty members and researchers won the 2017 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics and Decision Theory in the previous calendar year.

The winners are Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Filip Matějka for their paper "Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition", published in the American Economic Review.

Read more …CERGE-EI Researchers Win the 2017 Exeter Prize

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Münich has been awarded this year's Jan Švejnar and Katherine Terrell Teaching Prize. The award is based on student ratings of course instruction in CERGE-EI's core and field graduate courses.

Daniel's success follows from teaching the PhD course in Labor Economics.

Over a decade ago, Jan and Kathy set up the prize to publicly recognize the best teachers of economics at CERGE-EI, and to emphasize that graduate teaching quality is a vital part of CERGE-EI's mission.