Faculty

Daniel Münich serves as the executive director of academic think-tank IDEA at CERGE-EI since 2012.  Daniel Münich has been a Professor of Professional Practice at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) since 2016. He has been a Docent (Associate Professor) at CERGE, Charles University since 2006, and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI) since 1998. Since September 2015, he has served as Deputy Director for Research at CERGE and EI. He received his Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from Czech Technical University in Prague, and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1998 from CERGE, Charles University. He was a Visiting Scholar at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School (1997-1998), and completed a study stay at the University of Pittsburgh (1994-1995). At CERGE-EI, (under US permanent charter) he was an Altria Group Associate Professor from 2006 -2008), served as Deputy Director for Development and Public Relations (2003–2006,) and was Deputy Director for Graduate Studies (1999–2002) at CERGE and EI.  He served as an advisor to the Ministers of Education, Youth and Sport, and the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic (in 2006 and 1997–1998), as an external advisor of the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic (1997, 2002–2004), as a Steering Committee member under the auspices of the Czech Vice-Minister for the Economy, supervising the national Strategy for Economic Growth (2005). He was a member of an expert team preparing reforms of the Czech tertiary education system (2007–2008). He has served as a senior advisor to the European Network of Economists of Education (EENEE) (2004–present), as a member of the executive bodies of the Czech Economic Society (2003–present), and as a member of the Board of the Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2006–2010). He has been a member of the EI Board since 1997, a National SYSDEM / EEPO Correspondent for the EU commission for labor markets since 2005, a chair of the governmental Advisory Committee for Social and Human Sciences, and was a member of the Advisory Committee for Evaluation of Research and Development of the Board for Research and Development of the Czech government (2008-2014), and a member of the National Economic Board of the Czech Government (2010-2014). Since the spring 2018 he has become a member of the National Council for Budgetary Forecasts.

Research Orientation:

Labor economics (empirical issues of unemployment, labor supply and policies, human capital, welfare schemes), economics of education and schooling (public vs. private schools, quality of education, efficiency and equity, selectivity), bibliometric analysis