20th Anniversary Celebration

Anniversary Week in Prague 

 

Academic Conference Highlighting Research by Alumni

CERGE-EI alumni conducting research at  world-leading universities and institutes will contribute papers to a conference entitled CERGE-EI: Economists Changing the World, to take place from Friday afternoon, October 7th, until noon Sunday, October 9th. All CERGE-EI faculty, alumni, students and officials of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences will be invited.  A panel of CERGE-EI founders and first students will start off the conference early Friday afternoon, sharing reminisces of the program's early days.

 

Social Events for the CERGE-EI Community, Past and Present

Social events for alumni to reconnect and meet current faculty and students will take place on both Friday and Saturday evenings, October 7th and 8th.  One event will be a wine and cheese reception at CERGE-EI, and for the other, CERGE-EI students, alumni, faculty and friends will take over a local pub to continue the long-standing tradition of CERGE-EI Beer Parties.  

 

Václav Havel's Forum 2000 Conference

CERGE-EI is a co-organizer of the 2011 edition of Václav Havel's, Forum 2000, an annual event centered around a theme that draws prestigious speakers and attendees from around the world to discuss regional social and economic issues. This year’s event will be the 15th in Forum 2000’s influential and high-profile history and will focus on the “Rule of Law.” For ongoing updates on Forum 2000 events and participants, see: http:/www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/forum-2000-conferences/

CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Commitee member and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz will address the Fourm's opening session on Sunday evening, October 9th, when he will be presented with the Karel Englis Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. 

During the Forum, CERGE-EI will present five sessions.  The first two panel discussions are now confirmed. 

Tuesday morning, October 11th, a panel on “Legal Institutions and Transition Success” will feature:    

Boris Nemtsov,

Andrei Shleifer and

Joseph Stiglitz.      

The Tuesday afternoon panel will be on “The Rule of Law and Economic Growth” and feature:

Kenneth Dam,

Stephen Knack and

Hernando de Soto.  

 

Other possible CERGE-EI-sponsored panels will deal with:

"The Limits of Economic Regulation"

"Is There a Glass Ceiling: Women Leaders in Tomorrow's Corporate World,"

and

"Corruption and Society."

 

Watch this space for more details to be announced in the next few weeks.

 

20th Anniversary Formal Dinner

CERGE-EI will hold an exclusive cocktail party and dinner for its supporters and selected Forum 2000 participants on Tuesday, October 11th, after the Forum's concluding event.

 

Symposium Series in Financial Centers 

(New York, London, and Frankfurt)

CERGE-EI faculty, alumni, and associates in key positions will present three one-day workshops of interest to the business and political community, analyzing economic trends and events in Central and Eastern Europe. The topics will be:

Color Revolutions: Implications for the Middle East,

Lessons in Splitting Currencies: Crown, Dinar and Ruble, and

Economic Leadership in a Multipolar World. 

These workshops will be co-sponsored and supported by JPMorgan, DekaBank, and Schroders.  Tentative dates are Tuesday November 8th in London, Wednesday, November 9th in Frankfurt, and Thursday, November 17th in New York.  Watch this space for updates on dates and speakers in the coming weeks. 

 

Policy Essays and “Festschrift” 

Major economists who support CERGE-EI will write essays on critical regional issues for placement in leading international and Czech media outlets. Each essay will use lessons from the post-communist transition to provide insight into a current issue or trend. These essays will be reprinted in a single volume entitled Looking Back—Looking Forward: 20 Years of Transition, to be distributed at 20th Anniversary events.

 

Volume of the Best Research on Transition from CERGE-EI 

CERGE-EI Tackles the Transition, a collection of articles reprinted from top refereed journals, will contain the most influential scholarly papers published by CERGE-EI faculty over the past 20 years. The foreword will be by the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, with an introduction by Jan Švejnar.       

 

Updates Will Be Added —

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