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The research and teaching environment at CERGE-EI will get even more interesting this fall with the arrival of two new faculty members: Marek Kapička (PhD, University of Chicago) and Nikolas Mittag (PhD, University of Chicago). Professor Kapička arrives as Associate Professor with tenure and Professor Mittag is an Assistant Professor. CERGE-EI is delighted to welcome these new talented scholars to our academic community.

Read more: New Members Have Joined CERGE-EI's Faculty

At the end of April 2013, we had the honor to welcome Prof. Eric Maskin (Harvard University) to CERGE-EI in Prague. On April 29, Prof. Maskin gave a public lecture titled “How to Make the Right Decisions without Knowing People's Preferences: An Introduction to Mechanism Design.”

Read more: Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Eric Maskin at CERGE-EI

CERGE-EI is delighted to announce the names of five distinguished academics who have recently joined the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI: Christopher Sims (Princeton University), J. Peter Neary (Oxford University), George J. Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), Kevin Miles Murphy (University of Chicago), Larry Samuelson (Yale University).

Read more: New Distinguished Professors Including Nobel Prize Laureate Have Joined the ESC

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category goes in this fifth edition to U.S. mathematician Paul Milgrom “for his seminal contributions to an unusually wide range of fields of economics including auctions, market design, contracts and incentives, industrial economics, economics of organizations, finance, and game theory,” in the words of the prize jury.

Read more: Paul Milgrom Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The highlights of the year 2012 by Štěpán Jurajda, Director of CERGE-EI (Download PDF).

Read more: CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2012