Alumni Profiles

George Vachadze is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) in New York City. Before coming to CERGE-EI, he received his MSc degree in Mathematics from Tbilisi State University in his native Georgia. He defended his dissertation at CERGE-EI in 1999, titled "Asset Pricing and Portfolio Allocation in Stochastic Economies with Heterogeneous Agents: Speculative and Fundamental Valuation Models". He then began a second PhD, this time in Mathematics, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He had a post-doctoral fellowship at Bielefeld University, Germany which ran until 2009, at which time he accepted his current position at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).

Some of his recent publications include "Endogenous Inequality of Nations through Asset Market Integration" in Macroeconomic Dynamics and "Capital Accumulation with Tangible Assets" (both co-authored with Volker Böhm) in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. His current research interests are in the areas of international economics, monetary theory, and economic growth.