Faculty

Michal Kejak has been an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2007. He has been a Docent (Associate Professor) at CERGE, Charles University and a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI) since 2008. He served as the Director of CERGE, Charles University, and EI (2014–2018) and as the Deputy Director for Research of CERGE and EI (2010–2013 and 2003–2005). Master of Science in Technical Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Control, 1982. M.A. in Economics, Central European University, Prague, awarded by the State University of New York, 1993. CSc. (Ph.D.) in Technical Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Machine Engineering, Department of Automatic Control, 1993. Diploma, Program in Applied Economics 1993–1994, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1994. Researcher, Institute for Application of Computing Technique in Control, Prague, 1982–1990. Researcher, Institute for Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1990–1993. Visiting Research Fellow, Economics Department, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1993–1994. Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, 1995–1996. Temporary Consultant, World Bank, 1999. Fulbright Visiting Scholar, New York University, 2010. Visiting Faculty, PhD program, CEU Budapest, 2000–2004. Adjunct Faculty, PhD program, Cardiff Business School since 2005.

Research Orientation:

Macroeconomic theory, monetary models, growth and business cycle models, heterogeneous agent models, numerical methods in macroeconomics