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It is with deep sadness that we inform you that Professor Jan Kmenta passed away this Sunday, July 24. Jan was a great and long friend of CERGE-EI. 

Read more …Prof. Jan Kmenta - Obituary

CERGE-EI offers a unique opportunity for high school students to gain a deeper understanding of Economics and learn how to apply modern research methodology.

Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students aims at talented and motivated high school students who like Mathematics. Between September and December 2016, several afternoon seminars led by advanced CERGE-EI PhD students and graduates will be held in the center of Prague.

Check CERGE-EI website for more information. If interested, fill in a simple online registration. The deadline for applications is September 12. First come first served!

A record number of new Teaching Fellows from numerous countries will be coming to Prague for the 2016 August Teaching Fellows Course. New Fellows from Georgia, Hungary, Ukraine, and numerous other countries will participate this year.

The course features workshops and group discussions on modern economics teaching practices, and is also a great chance to network with others in the field.

The CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows program was launched in 2007 to increase the quality of undergraduate teaching in economics universities throughout the CEE and CIS regions. Since then, Teaching Fellows have taught in 25 countries reaching 70 000 students. In the 2015/16 academic year alone, 94 CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows were teaching courses at 64 universities in 23 countries throughout Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia and Ukraine.

More information on the program available on the CERGE-EI website.

Based on the recommendation of the Executive and Supervisory Committee, the CERGE-EI Board of Trustees has recently promoted Filip Matějka to the position of Associate Professor with tenure and Daniel Műnich to the position of Professor of Professional Practice with an indefinite contract.

This double promotion comes only a few weeks after the announcement regarding the hiring of five new full-time CERGE-EI faculty members. The year 2016 thus ranks among the most important hiring and promotion successes in CERGE-EI´s history.

Professor Christopher Sims of Princeton University, the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics and a member of CERGE-EI’s Executive and Supervisory Committee, has been awarded the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Karel Engliš Honorary Medal for Merit in the Social and Economic Sciences. The presentation of the medal by Prof. Jiří Drahoš, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, became one of the highlights of the CERGE-EI 25th Anniversary Gala held on May 27th. The laudatio speech was delivered by Prof. Henry Farber of Princeton University.

Read more …Karel Engliš Honorary Medal presented to Prof. Christopher Sims at the 25th Anniversary Gala