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Alan Krueger Confirmed as Chair of US Council of Economic Advisers

After his unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate on November 3, CERGE-EI ESC member Alan B. Krueger (Princeton University) now chairs President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. A report on Alan Krueger's nomination can be found here. We wish him the best success in this extremely demanding job.

November 11, 2011

Jan Kmenta Awarded NFKJ Neuron Lifetime Achievement Award

Prof. Jan Kmenta has received the 2011 Neuron award for lifetime achievements in the field of economics. The annual Neuron awards were established by Nadační fond Karla Janečka (NFKJ, Karel Janeček's Endowment Fund) in 2010. There are two awards given annually – one to celebrate lifetime achievements and the other to for young researchers who decide to return from abroad to pursue their academic/research careers in the Czech Republic.

November 9, 2011 Read more: Jan Kmenta Awarded NFKJ Neuron Lifetime Achievement Award

Young Economists of the Year: CERGE-EI Students Carry the Day in Czech Economic Society Competition

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that Peter Ondko and Vahagn Jerbashian, CERGE-EI students and Junior Researchers, received the first and the second prize in the competition “Young Economist of the Year” held by the Czech Economic Society.

November 7, 2011 Read more: Young Economists of the Year: CERGE-EI Students Carry the Day in Czech Economic Society Competition

Nobel Prize Winner Josef Stiglitz Delivers a Lecture at CERGE-EI

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and member of CERGE-EI's Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) was one of the honored guests at CERGE-EI's 20th Anniversary celebrations recently. On Monday, October 10, 2011, he delivered a lecture to CERGE-EI faculty and students on “Restoring Growth and Stability in a World of Crisis and Contagion: Lessons from Economic Theory and History.” (.) Professor Stiglitz also met with small groups of students and faculty to provide feedback on their current research, and spoke with local donors about the euro zone sovereign debt crisis at an informal breakfast.

October 11, 2011 Read more: Nobel Prize Winner Josef Stiglitz Delivers a Lecture at CERGE-EI

Nobel Prize Winner Chris Sims Is Co-author with CERGE-EI Faculty Member

CERGE-EI offers its congratulations to the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, who were awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences on October 10, 2011 for their research that sheds light on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and policy instruments such as interest rates and government spending.

Further congratulations to Filip Matějka who has recently co-authored a working paper with Professor Sims in the CERGE-EI Working Paper series titled "Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Tracking Problems."

October 10, 2011 Read more: Nobel Prize Winner Chris Sims Is Co-author with CERGE-EI Faculty Member