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 Director of CERGE, Charles University, and EI (2014–2018) and as Deputy Director for Research of CERGE and EI (2010-2013 and 2003–2005). In 1982, Michal received a Master of Science in Technical Cybernetics from Czech Technical University, Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Control (with distinction and Dean Honour for study results and Diploma paper). In 1993, he received a CSc. (Ph.D.) in Technical Cybernetics from Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Machine Engineering, Department of Automatic Control, and an M.A. in Economics from Central European University, Prague, awarded by the State University of New York, Albany, NY (1995). He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University (2019), a Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2019), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University (2010), has been an Adjunct Faculty, PhD program at Cardiff Business School since 2005, was a Visiting Faculty, PhD program at CEU Budapest (2000–2004), a Temporary Consultant at World Bank (1999), a Visiting Scholar at Hoover Institute, Stanford University (1995–1996), a Visiting Research Fellow at Economics Department, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, (1993–1994), a Researcher at the Institute for Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague (1990–1993), and a Researcher at the Institute for Application of Computing Technique in Control, Prague (1982–1990).

Research Orientation:

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