Archive for April, 2010

Teaching Fellowships open to Alumni applicants

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The CERGE-EI Foundation announces two types of fellowships for CERGE-EI students and alumni for the 2010/2011 academic year, both with application deadlines of May 22nd, 2010.

Graduate teaching fellowships are designed to help improve the quality of economics education in Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Awards are made on a per-course  basis. For more information please download the call for applications, application form and detailed rules and requirements.

Postgraduate fellowships are designed to make academic careers in the post-communist countries more attractive for such graduates by providing supplemental income that should bridge the gap between academic and private sector salaries. Awards are for 3-year terms. More information on the postgraduate fellowships can be found here.

The donor who provided funds for the fellowships believes that CERGE-EI can supply high-quality instructors who can make a difference at other universities in the region.

CERGE-EI Alumni are welcome to apply for both kids of fellowships.

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Regional “Transition” Wine Tasting (hiccup!)

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

One of the most widely-anticipated events on the CERGE-EI social calendar is rapidly approaching. That’s right – the (nearly) annual wine tasting of wines from around the transition and developing world.

This year it will take place on June 4th, 2010 at the CERGE-EI building (2nd Floor).

Many of you will remember this event from your time at CERGE-EI. Richard E. Quandt and Orley Ashenfelter, two of the people behind Liquid Assets (which gives an econometric basis for predicting wine vintages from all over the world) provided the impetus for this event early in CERGE-EI’s history and we are honored to be able to run it again this year.

Students are asked to bring a bottle of wine from their country of origin (or from a country in the CEE/CIS region which they have recently visited). Alumni are welcome to attend the event as well (and feel free to bring a bottle as well – red or white are both fine, but only dry wines are in the competition) so we hope to see you there!

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Remembering Viatcheslav Vinogradov

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

We are extremely saddened to report the sudden death of Slava Vinogradov on Sunday, March 28th, 2010, after several weeks of hospitalization. Slava joined CERGE-EI in 1997 which means that his time here spanned 13 cohorts of CERGE-EI students.

His recent research culminated in a paper with Eugen Kováč and Krešimir Žigić (both CERGE-EI alumni), titled “Technological leadership and persistence of monopoly under endogenous entry: Static versus dynamic analysis” which is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Slava was a wonderful colleague, an enthusiastic teacher and a good friend – he will be missed by many. Our deepest sympathies go to his family – his wife, two children, one just half a year old, and his mother.

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CERGE-EI runners strike again

Friday, April 9th, 2010

The CERGE-EI runners showed that they’re not limiting themselves to only run in the snow.  This time around it was at the Hervis Prague Half-Marathon on 27 March 2010.

From L-R: Fabio Michelucci, Wadim Strielkowski, Oleg Sidorkin, Jan Myslivecek, Juraj Stancik, and Jan Hanousek

If you would like to  join CERGE-EI’s running team for an upcoming event and receive your own running vest (with the CERGE-EI logo and the team’s motto (“In the long run, every crisis ends!”) please e-mail your IOI to the CERGE-EI Public Relations office.

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