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New Distinguished Professors Including Nobel Prize Laureate Have Joined the ESC

CERGE-EI is delighted to announce the names of five distinguished academics who have recently joined the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI: Christopher Sims (Princeton University), J. Peter Neary (Oxford University), George J. Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), Kevin Miles Murphy (University of Chicago), Larry Samuelson (Yale University).

March 14, 2013 Read more: New Distinguished Professors Including Nobel Prize Laureate Have Joined the ESC

 
 

Paul Milgrom Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category goes in this fifth edition to U.S. mathematician Paul Milgrom “for his seminal contributions to an unusually wide range of fields of economics including auctions, market design, contracts and incentives, industrial economics, economics of organizations, finance, and game theory,” in the words of the prize jury.

March 4, 2013 Read more: Paul Milgrom Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

 
 

CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2012

The highlights of the year 2012 by Štěpán Jurajda, Director of CERGE-EI (Download PDF).

December 21, 2012 Read more: CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2012

 
 

Marek Kapička Receives J. E. Purkyně Fellowship

We are pleased to announce that Marek Kapička, an Associate Professor with Tenure at CERGE-EI as of September 2013, has obtained the J.E. Purkyně Fellowship. The Fellowship will help facilitate his transition back to Prague following a distinguished career in the United States.

December 5, 2012 Read more: Marek Kapička Receives J. E. Purkyně Fellowship

 
 

Third Place in "Young Economist of the Year" Goes to CERGE-EI

Two accomplished CERGE-EI Junior Researchers, Anna Kochanova and Vahagn Yerbashian, won the third place in the competition for young economists with their paper "The impact of telecommunication technologies on competition in services and goods markets: Empirical Evidence". The prize is awarded annually by the Czech Economic Society.

December 5, 2012