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CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships—Call for Applications

18 April, 2012

The CERGE-EI Foundation post-doctorate teaching fellowships are intended to support economists who obtained their PhD in the United States or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe (including the countries of the former Soviet Union).

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Czech Business Weekly Praises CERGE-EI’s Achievements

4 April, 2012

CERGE-EI's faculty and the IDEA project earned high accolades from the Czech business weekly Profit in its article on the most influential economists in the country. According to the magazine's custom-made index, Jan Švejnar is the third most publicly visible Czech economist. Among academic economists (ranked according to the RePEc index) CERGE-EI dominates with six faculty members and two graduates in the top ten.

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Jakub Steiner Wins Scopus Award

20 February, 2012

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that Jakub Steiner, a researcher at CERGE-EI, was awarded second prize in “Česká naděje 2011 – Scopus Award” for his paper “Who Matters in Coordination Problems?”

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Jan Švejnar to Lead New Economic Center at Columbia University

23 January, 2012

Prof. Jan Švejnar, CERGE-EI's co-founder, Chairman of its Executive and Supervisory Committee, and founder of IDEA think-tank, has been appointed as Director of the Center for Global Economic Governance (CGEG) at Columbia University.

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Long-Term CERGE-EI Board Member Orley Ashenfelter Gives AEA Presidential Address

19 January, 2012

Long-Term CERGE-EI Board Member Orley Ashenfelter Gives American Economic Association Presidential Address on January 7, 2012 at AEA Meetings in Chicago

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