Faculty

Marek Kapička has been an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) since September 2013 and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since May 2014. Marek has been an Assistant Professor at CERGE, Charles University since September 2013, Researcher, February-August 2013. He has also been a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic since July 2013. Since September 2013 he has served as the Deputy Director for Research of CERGE and EI. He was awarded the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 2012. He received his M.A. in Economics from the Charles University in 1998 and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2003. Since 2012 he has been an Associate Professor (on leave) at the University of California in Santa Barbara. In 2003, he won the Young Economist Award organized by EEA, Stockholm. He has published in journals such as Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics or American Economic Journal in Macroeconomics.

Research orientation:

Macroeconomics, public finance, economic theory, contract theory.