Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education - Economics Institute

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PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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Webpage: http://home.cerge-ei.cz/bauer

Michal Bauer has been a research fellow at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic since 2010. Other affiliations include an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague (where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 2009) and IZA Research Fellow. In 2007-8, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at New York University. From September 1, 2011, he is a permanent faculty member at CERGE-EI.

Research Orientation:

His research interests are in the areas of development microeconomics, experimental economics, and behavioral economics. Much of his work focuses on the interaction between poverty and time, risk, and social preferences. He has conducted field experiments on related topics in Uganda, India, and the Republic of Georgia.