Faculty

Sergey Slobodyan is the Citigroup Endowment Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) since 2011 and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2009. He is also an Assistant Professor at CERGE, Charles University and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic since 2000. Since September 2012 he serves as the Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE and EI. He has received his M.Sc. in Physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1988, later M.A. in Economics from Washington University in 1996 and Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in 2000. He has taught economics in St. Louis, Prague, Frankfurt, Kiev, and Novosibirsk and worked at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk.

Research orientation:

Bayesian estimation of DSGE models, especially under adaptive learning; large deviations theory in models of monetary policy; adaptive learning; interaction of public pensions and public educational systems; dynamics of growth models with multiple steady states and indeterminacy; micro-simulations of various markets, such as education and electricity, using agent-based computational economics.