Faculty

Jan Zápal has been an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) as of September 2012. He has been an Assistant Professor at CERGE, Charles University and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, since September 2014. Between July 2013 and August 2014, he has also worked as a Researcher at CERGE, Charles University. He received his Master´s degree from the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012. During his Ph.D. studies he was a Visiting Student Researcher at the Californian Institute of Technology (2010 to 2011), held an Economica Scholarship awarded by the LSE Department of Economics (2007 and 2008), and won the first prize in the Young Economist of the Year competition organized by the Czech Economic Society (2008). Between 2012 and 2014 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at IAE-CSIC, Barcelona.

Research Orientation:
Political economics, economic theory, dynamic bargaining models, behavioural political economics