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Have you ever wondered what is it like to work on Wall Street and what sorts of skills you need to work there? At CERGE-EI, students of our MA in Applied Economics now have a chance to acquire these skills and prepare for a successful career in finance at an international level.

Read more: Acquire Wall Street Financial Skills

We would like to congratulate 5th year student Jakub Matějů who has won the first Alumni Award for the Best Student Paper in Finance with his paper “Limited Liability, Asset Price Bubbles and the Credit Cycle. The Role of Monetary Policy”. The paper was selected by the Alumni Committee from a number of outstanding papers that were entered into the competition.

Read more: Jakub Matějů wins the very first Alumni Award for the Best CERGE-EI Student Paper

Win a trip to London! First Alumni Award for Best Paper Now Open for Submissions from current CERGE-EI Students!

It is my pleasure to announce the first Alumni Award for Best Student Paper. The winner will get a fully paid trip to our second London Alumni Meeting which is being held on 16 March and for which we have teamed up with the Legatum Institute and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. There will be a Panel Discussion “The Shadow Economy – Impact on Innovation, East and West” and it will be a great opportunity to meet CERGE-EI alumni and many other interesting guests.

Read more: Alumni Award for the Best CERGE-EI Student Paper Now Open for Submissions

Take one ambitious and curious junior researcher. Give him three months in a city that is home to some of the world’s top learning institutions. Offer him the chance to test his ideas with thought leaders in his field. What happened? Find out on our blog.

Did you know that there are more than 6500 think tanks around the world? Many play an important role in shaping government and civil society but it can be difficult to judge the extent of their contributions. For 8 years, the Think Tanks & Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania has published an annual index of think tanks that has been described as "the insider's guide to the global marketplace of ideas."

Read more: Quality of CERGE-EI Research Recognized in the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index!