Quotes

"The peace and prosperity of the post-communist world requires investment in economic education and understanding. CERGE-EI is making a critical contribution to filling the void left by decades of hiding the truth."
Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic

"CERGE-EI has assembled a group of vigorous scholars who offer high quality training and access to frontier research in economics in Central Europe. The seminars are active, the scholars are productive and the students trained there are doing high quality research."
James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, and 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics

"I was impressed by the quality of the program at CERGE-EI when I visited there. It is a leader in economic education and research in the region."
Gary Becker, Professor, University of Chicago, and 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics

"One of the very, very few places in post-communist Central Europe where economic teaching and research is conducted at a level comparable to the great universities of the world."
Lord Dahrendorf, Warden, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford

"My best guess is that in the near future CERGE-EI will be the most prominent place in Europe to study economics."
Orley Ashenfelter, Professor, Princeton University, and Editor of the American Economic Review

"The work at CERGE-EI furnishes thorough and up-to-date insights into crucial aspects of the transition. It is of great value to policy makers, scholars, and those interested in understanding the complex process of transition to a market economy."
Nicholas Stern, Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, and Chief Economist, EBRD

"CERGE-EI is one of the very finest institutes working on economic problems in Central Europe. Its contributions to economic policy, research and training of the next generation have already been enormous and the work just gets better and better."
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Harvard Institute for International Development

"CERGE-EI is a unique institution in Central and Eastern Europe. It has achieved in a short period of time the most exacting standards for teaching graduate economics and conducting economic research."
Richard Quandt, Professor, Princeton University, and Program Officer for Central and Eastern Europe, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

"The shortage of economic expertise in Central and Eastern Europe is so critical that I relied on several students from CERGE-EI even before they had completed their education. I was thrilled to be able to hire one of the first graduates of the program for a key position."
Vladimir Dlouhy, former Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic