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Czech Economic Society Awards Go to Four CERGE-EI Community Members
29 November, 2016
We are excited to announce that four CERGE-EI community members received awards at last Saturday’s meeting of the Czech Economic Society (CSE).
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Results of the New Economic Talent 2016 Student Competition: Congratulations to the Winners!
21 November, 2016
On Monday 21 November 2016, we saw the five finalists of the New Economic Talent 2016 student competition (Barna Elek Szabó, Central European University, Levente Lippenszky, Eötvös Loránd University, Ondřej Tobek, University of Cambridge, Michal Šoltés, Charles University, Institute of Economic Studies and Zsofia Komuves, Central European University) present their paper to the CERGE-EI evaluation committee. The finalist’s papers were selected from a possible 89 papers that came from 30 different countries. During the first stage, the evaluation committee selected the top 12 papers and the top 5 were invited to attend the final stage. During the final stage, the 5 finalists gave excellent presentations and the evaluation committee (Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley; Sergey Slobodyan, CERGE-EI; Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI) offered feedback and recommendations for future research and awarded the winning places in 1st and joint 2nd place.
CERGE-EI Launched its Economics Discovery Hub to Give University Students Access to First Class Educational Activities for Free
9 November, 2016
CERGE-EI launched a new project entitled Economics Discovery Hub based upon the success of the Coursera Learning Hub and the Applied Economics Discovery Hub that were successfully run in past years.
CERGE-EI Alumna becomes an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
1 November, 2016
Michaela Erbenová, a PhD Alumna of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, took up the office on November 1, 2016, as the first Czech representative in IMF management. For the first time in 70 years, the Czech Republic thus has a seat at the table as one of the 24 members of the IMF Executive Board elected by the IMF Board of Governors.
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Week of Science and Technology 2016
24 October, 2016
Week of Science and Technology, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences (1-13 November 2016), is the most extensive science festival in the Czech Republic. The program offers more than 500 events all over the Czech Republic. For more information visit www.tydenvedy.cz.
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