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For the fifth time, CERGE-EI is looking for New Economic Talent: a young student willing to embark on the path to a successful career in economics research. 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.

Read more: New Economic Talent Wanted

We are very proud to announce that Filip Matějka′s paper "Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Decision Problems" (coauthored with Christopher A. Sims, Junehyuk Jung, and Jeong-Ho Kim) was accepted by the Review of Economic Studies for publication.

The Review of Economic Studies is published quarterly and its objective is to encourage research in theoretical and applied economics, especially by young economists. It is one of the core economics journals, consistently ranked among the top five titles.

Filip Matějka is an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI. He is also an Associate Professor at CERGE, Charles University and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His area of research is mainly macroeconomics, political economy, information economics (mostly rational inattention), and behavioral economics. He was awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant in 2015.

Congratulations once again!

We are happy to announce that with the beginning of the New Year Sergey Slobodyan has assumed leadership of CERGE-EI. He takes the lead from Michal Kejak, who served as CERGE-EI Director for the last five years. 

Read more: Sergey Slobodyan Leads CERGE-EI from January 1

The highlights of the year 2018 by Michal Kejak, Director of CERGE-EI 
(Download PDF).

Read more: CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2018

We are pleased to announce that on December 4 Prof. Jan Švejnar received the title of Honorary Senator at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia from the rector of the University of Ljubljana, Prof. Igor Papič.

Read more: Double recognition for Prof. Švejnar, chairman of the ESC at CERGE-EI