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Award for the Best Paper in Economics of Discrimination Goes to CERGE-EI

16 July, 2015

We are excited to announce that a paper authored by CERGE-EI faculty members Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Filip Matějka and PhD student and junior researcher Vojtěch Bartoš, has won a prize for the best paper on the economics of discrimination in a competition organized by UniCredit & Universities Foundation.

Vojtěch will present the paper at a workshop entitled The Economics of Discrimination in Naples, Italy. The event will be organized in co-operation with the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) and the Economics Department of the University of Southampton, with the support of UniCredit & Universities Foundation and the Royal Economic Society.

You can read the winning paper "Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition".