People at CERGE-EI
Mgr. Jakub Steiner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor with Tenure
Office: 316
Voice: +420-224 005 182
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Webpage: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/steiner/htm/
Jakub Steiner is an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI (since 2012). Since September 2012 he is an Assistant Professor at CERGE, Charles University, and since January 2012 a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He has been awarded the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He is an Assistant Professor at Kellogg, MEDS at Northwestern University since September 2009. Prior to his appointment at Kellogg, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at CERGE-EI in 2006, and M.A. in Physics at Charles University in 2000. He has published in journals such as American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, and Games and Economic Behavior. He worked as a social worker for a Roma community from 2000–2002, and since then he has been interested in the economics of social exclusion.
Research orientation:
Game theory and economic theory. He studies behavior in strategic situations with the possibility of self-fulfilling prophecies such as those that arise during currency attacks, bank runs, and revolutions.
