Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Highest completed education

1978-1982

Academy of Sciences, Economic Institute, Prague, PhD study in economics

Political economy, neoclassical and Keynesian economics, statistics, econometrics, pure theory of international trade and trade models.

Candidate of Sciences in quantitative methods used in economic modelling, CSc., (eq. PhD).

1968-1969

Clare College, Cambridge University, Faculty of Economics, Britain; supervisor: Charles Feinstein (All Souls, Oxford)

1964-1968 and 1970

Prague School of Economics, Faculty of Trade, Prague, Czechoslovakia

 

Field of specialisation

My expertise covers the following fields:
Teaching experience in International Trade, International Finance, Economics of European Integration, Institutional Economics
Economic analysis of the accession and the EU economies.
Analyses and modelling of the behaviour of economic agents in open economies.
Consultancy in economic policies related to restructuring, efficiency and specialisation in trade at the level of the macroeconomy, sectors and enterprises.
The behaviour of the entrepreneurs and enterprises on the world markets and their relationship to specialisation in trade; the role of human capital and R&D; market structure, nature of competition; entrepreneurship and SMEs.
Work with statistical data, databases and techniques of quantitative evaluation of trends and determining factors.
Coordination and assessment of projects dealing with nominal and real convergence and policies aimed at growth and stability.
Evaluation of the proficiency of governments in their role as public administrators and policy-makers.
Linkages of the EU accession countries with the EU, Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia and the trade policies with them. In 1995-2001 a similar agenda concerning China and Taiwan.

Teaching activities

Teaching at the Institute of Economic Studies, Facutly of Social Sciences, Charles University.Curricula:

International Trade, viz. http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/index.php?module=sylab&action=sylab&id_sylab=30&lng=en_GB

International Finance, viz. http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/index.php?module=sylab&action=sylab&id_sylab=37&lng=en_GB

 

Downloadable publications:

http://ceses.cuni.cz/benacek/publications.html

 

Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad

Visiting professor at George Mason University, Fairfax and Arlington. Lecturing at Columbia Univ., Harvard Univ. and Princeton Univ. (1991). Research stays at University of Limerick; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Chung-Hua Inst. for Economic Research, Taipei, Taiwan. Research worker at Interantional Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg/Vienna (2001-2003); senior researcher at Economic Analysis Division, UN Geneva (2004).