Alumni Profiles

Karel Janda is Professor at the Department of Banking and Insurance, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, University of Economics, Prague and simultaneously Transgas-RWE Professor in Economics at the Department of Microeconomics and Mathematical Methods, Institute of Economic Studies (IES-FSV) at Charles University, Prague, where he is also Department Chair. He defended his thesis, titled "The Demand for Food Imports and for Agricultural Credit" in 1996, the third PhD defense in CERGE-EI's history. After finishing at CERGE-EI, he pursued and was awarded a second PhD in economics from the University of Iowa in 2003.

He lists his research interests as Microeconomics of Banking, Credit Risk Management, Mechanism Design and Contract Theory, Asymmetric Information, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Demand Theory, Natural Resources and Agricultural Economics, and Transition Economics. Some recent publications include "Inefficient Credit Rationing and Public Support of Commercial Credit Provision" in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, "Success in Economic Transformation of the Czech Beer Industry and Its Social Costs and Benefits" (with Jakub Mikolášek) in Transformations in Business and Economics and "Investing into Microfinance" (with Barbora Svárovská) in the Journal of Business Economics and Management.