People at CERGE-EI
Prof. Jan Švejnar, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Office: 125, ext. 193
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Graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. degree in Industrial and Labor Relations in 1974. Graduate studies at Princeton University with an M.A. degree in Economics in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1979. Since 1996 the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. From 1996 to 2004 the Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School. From 1994 to 2002 an economic advisor to Czech president Václav Havel. From August 1992 to June 1999 the Director of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 1991 Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee, CERGE-EI and since 2005 Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Research Orientation:
Transformation economics, enterprise performance, labour market analysis.
