20th Anniversary Celebration
CERGE-EI celebrated its 20th birthday on October 7-11, 2011. Hundreds of students, alumni, faculty, supporters, employees, collaborators and friends of CERGE-EI gathered to join the cheer in a series of academic and social events. Stay tuned for the coverage (coming soon).
Anniversary Week in Prague
(October 7-11)
CERGE-EI: Celebrating 20 Years of Excellence in Economics
Anniversary week began with an opening gala ceremony followed by a champagne reception honoring the organization's founders and graduates. The celebratory panel featured remarks and toasts by CERGE-EI's founders and ESC members Jan Švejnar and Josef Zieleniec; founder Richard Quandt; its current director, Štěpán Jurajda; the rector of Charles University, Václav Hampl; the president of the Academy of Sciences, Jiří Drahoš; and the EBRD principal economist, Anita Taçi.
Friday, October 7, 13:30–15:00 at CERGE-EI
Academic Conference Highlighting Research by Alumni
CERGE-EI alumni conducting research at world-leading universities and institutes contributed papers to a conference entitled CERGE-EI: Economists Changing the World, which took place from Friday afternoon, October 7th, until noon Sunday, October 9th. All CERGE-EI faculty, alumni, students and officials of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences were invited.
The conference also featured a special panel by members of CERGE-EI's Executive and Supervisory committee: Michelle White, Gérard Roland, John Sutton.
Saturday, October 8, 16:00–18:00 at CERGE-EI
The panel was followed by a reception and a buffet dinner, which took place on Saturday, October 8, at CERGE-EI, starting at 18:00.
Social Events for the CERGE-EI Community, Past and Present
Social events for alumni to reconnect and meet current faculty and students took place on both Friday and Saturday evenings, October 7 and 8. One event was a reception and buffet dinner at CERGE-EI, and for the other, CERGE-EI students, alumni, faculty and friends took over a local pub to continue the long-standing tradition of CERGE-EI Beer Parties.
The Beer Party—Friday, October 7, starting at 19:00.
Václav Havel's Forum 2000 Conference
CERGE-EI is a co-organizer of the 2011 edition of Václav Havel's Forum 2000, an annual event centered around a theme that draws prestigious speakers and attendees from around the world to discuss regional social and economic issues. This year's event was the 15th in Forum 2000’s influential and high-profile history and focused on the “Rule of Law.” For ongoing updates on Forum 2000 events and participants, see: http:/www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/forum-2000-conferences/
CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Commitee member and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz addressed the Forum's opening session on Sunday evening, October 9th, when he was awarded the Karel Engliš Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
During the Forum, CERGE-EI presented the following sessions.
The Rule of Law and Economic Growth
featuring
Hernando de Soto, and Joseph Stiglitz
Monday, October 10, 12:00–13:30
Legal Institutions and Transition Success
featuring
Kenneth Damm, Boris Nemtsov, and Stephen Knack
Tuesday, October 11, 10:00–11:30
The Limits of Regulation
featuring
Robert Hahn, Hassane Cisse and Zdeněk Tůma
Monday, October 10, 9:00–10:30
Corruption and Society
featuring
Peter Eigen, Grigory Yavlinsky, Laurent Weill,
Christopher Walker and Avi Dichter
Tuesday, October 11, 11:45–13:15
Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Challenge for Europe
featuring
Jan Macháček, Alan Brown, Vladimír Dlouhý,
Jacques Rupnik, and Zdeněk Kudrna
Tuesday, October 11, 9:00–10:30
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Women Leaders in Tomorrow's World
featuring
Jan Bubenik, Stephanie Shirley,
Mariko Gakiya, Magdalena Vášáryová and Beatrice Mtetwa
Monday, October 10, 16:15–17:45
Economic Policy Lecture at CERGE-EI
On Monday, October 10 in the afternoon, Nobel Prize winner and ESC member Joseph Stiglitz gave a lecture “Restoring Growth and Stability in a World of Crisis and Contagion: Lessons from Economic Theory and History.” Next day, he discussed the problems of the eurozone with CERGE-EI's local sponsors at an informal breakfast.
Monday, October 10, 17:00–18:30 at CERGE-EI
20th Anniversary Formal Dinner
CERGE-EI held an exclusive cocktail party and dinner for its supporters and selected Forum 2000 participants on Tuesday, October 11th, after the Forum's concluding event.
Symposium Series in Financial Centers (New York, London and Frankfurt)
(Note - CERGE-EI and our partners have decided to postpone the symposia series which was to take place in November 2011 - the series will be rescheduled and details will appear here when the new dates are selected)
CERGE-EI faculty, alumni, and associates in key positions will present three one-day workshops of interest to the business and political community, analyzing economic trends and events in Central and Eastern Europe. The topics will be:
Color Revolutions: Implications for the Middle East,
Lessons in Splitting Currencies: Crown, Dinar and Ruble, and
Economic Leadership in a Multipolar World.
These workshops will be co-sponsored and supported by JPMorgan, DekaBank, and Schroders. The symposia will be held on Tuesday November 8th in London, Thursday, November 10th in Frankfurt, and Thursday, November 17th in New York. Confirmed speakers include Malcolm Rifkind, William White, Karel Dyba, Pavel Kysilka, John Eatwell, Stewart Eldon, George Robertson, Jagdish Bhagwati, John Taylor and Olivier Blanchard. Watch this space for updates on locations and other exciting speakers in the coming weeks.
Volume of the Best Research on Transition from CERGE-EI
CERGE-EI Tackles Transition, a collection of articles reprinted from top refereed journals, contains the most influential scholarly papers published by CERGE-EI faculty over the past 20 years. The introduction is by Lubomír Lízal, Associate Professor with Tenure at CERGE-EI and member of the Board of the Czech National Bank.
