New Economic Talent
NET 2019: Final Results
The final round of the 5h New Economic Talent competition took place on Friday, May 31, at CERGE-EI.
Four finalists presented their papers in front of the CERGE-EI evaluation committee ( Randall Filer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Marek Kapicka, an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI, and Ctirad Slavík, Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI), who offered feedback and recommendations for the students' future research.
Our thanks go to all who took part in the competition this year, and special congratulations to the finalists on their excellent work!
First place:
Charoo Anand (London School of Economics): Do mortgage lenders discriminate against African American areas? An instrumental variable approach
Second place:
Maksim Bakhtin (New Economic School): Selling Information to Heterogeneous Buyers
Joint third place:
Alina Ozhegova (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Segmentation of Theatre Audiences: Latent Class Approach for Combined Data
Alexander Tishin (New Economic School): Monetary Policy Surprises in Russia
Results of the First Round
The Evaluation Committee has selected the top 15 papers and the top 4 finalists, who will present their papers during the final round in Prague on May 31, 2019. Congratulations to all!
New Economic Talent 2019 finalists (listed in alphabetical order):
Charoo Anand (London School of Economics): Do mortgage lenders discriminate against African American areas? An instrumental variable approach
Maksim Bakhtin (New Economic School): Selling Information to Heterogeneous Buyers
Alina Ozhegova (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Segmentation of Theatre Audiences: Latent Class Approach for Combined Data
Alexander Tishin (New Economic School): Monetary Policy Surprises in Russia
„This experience has been remarkable. We got the chance to get feedback from distinguished panelists, and more importantly to just discuss economics, which is something that we love, and really look at how we can do even better for the future.”
Sitong Ding, London School of Economics, NET 2018 winner
Other Papers That Made it to Top 15 (listed in alphabetical order):
Mikayel Harutyunyan (Charles University in Prague): The Truth Behind the Lies: Does Personality Predict Dishonesty?
Sara Izquierdo Martínez (Universidad Carlos lll de Madrid): The Power of Information: Media Usage and Gender Attitudes in Africa
Sevara Kamolova (Westminster International University in Tashkent): The Role of Remittance Inflow and Business Start-up Regulations in Stock Market Development
Hristina Manolova (University of Mannheim): Wage Dynamics in Bulgaria
Begoña Molina Muros (Univeristeit van Amsterdam): Open innovation and incentives
Maryna Romanko (Tonkoshkur), (Kyiv School of Economics): Detecting suspicious behavior in public procurement auctions
Jing Lian Suah (London School of Economics and Political Science): Mismanaged Expectations: The Distributional Impacts of Exchange Rate Shocks at the Sectoral-Level
Oleksandr Sukhomlyn (Kyiv School of Economics): Communicative Efficiency in Ukraine’s Banking System: Evidence From Independent Auditor Reports
Ivan Suvorov (New Economic School): Expected and Unexpected Consequences of Russian Pension Increase in 2010
Šimon Trlifaj (Central European University): How Knowledge Becomes a Public Good: Permanency, Patents and Secrecy
TianYang Zhang (University of Cambridge): Textual Analysis: The effect of the Bank of England inflation reports On the UK 3-Month Treasury Bill rates
New Economic Talent 2019 Call for Papers
In our fifth annual New Economic Talent Competition, the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) invites university students to submit their papers. Nadace CERGE-EI is a proud sponsor.
The competition is open to current bachelor’s and master’s students (full-time or part-time) or bachelor’s and master’s graduates (up to one year after graduation) in any field, who are interested in contemporary economic issues and wish to better understand the forces and processes that ‘shape the world’. Please read NET 2019 conditions for details.
"New Economic Talent competition is an amazing opportunity to challenge yourself, to get valuable feedback on your work, to talk to professors who are experts in their field, and to get to know the high-quality work at CERGE-EI. It is an incredible help to your career, but it is also a lot more than a shaping professional experience."
Zsófia, NET 2016 winner
Deadline for submission: 31 March, 2019 (23:59 CET)
Participation: international
Topics: macroeconomics, microeconomics, applied economics, finance
Language: English
Number of rounds: 2
First round: electronic submission of a completed paper (up to 50 pages; 90,000 characters incl. spaces) and an abstract (1 page; 1,800 characters incl. spaces)
First round results: within 5 weeks after the deadline
Second round: presentation at CERGE-EI, Prague (up to 5 finalists), May 2018
Criteria of evaluation: originality, substance, analytical nature, clarity of writing
Prize: 1,000 USD and invitations to relevant research and social events at CERGE-EI
"New Economic Talent competition gave me the opportunity to present my own ideas to experienced economists from high-ranked universities as well as the chance to see the other competing students present. In particular, the final round of the NET, which is full of presentations, meetings, and discussions with other economists, was one of my first contacts with academic economics. Overall, the NET competition was a great experience that I would recommend to anyone interested in economics."
Michal, NET 2016 finalist
How to Submit Your Paper:
- Prepare the documents. Please submit your paper in MS Word (or similar text editor) or in PDF format.
- Length of the paper must be up to 50 pages (90,000 characters including spaces) in total, including the text body, footnotes, charts, graphs, and bibliography (charts or graphs included as images count as 900 characters). The length of the abstract must be between 1 page (1,800 characters including spaces). The abstract does not count toward the page limit of the paper. All texts must be written in English and should NOT include your personal and contact details.
- Fill in the online registration form.
- Send the paper and its extended abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please try to limit its size to 5 MB.
Further details: please see NET 2019 conditions
