Faculty

Sergey Slobodyan has served as the Director of CERGE, Charles University, and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI) since January 2019. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE and EI (2012-2015). He has been the Citigroup Endowment Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) since 2011 and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2009. He has also been a Docent (Associate Professor) at CERGE, Charles University since May 2019 (prior to that, an Assistant Professor 2000-2019), and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2000. Since 2018, he has been a co-editor of Russian Journal of Money and Finance. From 2015 to 2018, he was a chair of the Department of Economics at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia. He received his M.Sc. in Physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1988, later an M.A. in Economics from Washington University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in 2000. He received his M.Sc. in Physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1988, later an M.A. in Economics from Washington University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in 2000. He has taught economics in St. Louis, Prague, Frankfurt, Kiev, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk, and worked at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk.

Research Orientation:

Bayesian estimation of DSGE models, especially under adaptive learning; large deviations theory in models of monetary policy; adaptive learning; interaction of public pensions and public educational systems; dynamics of growth models with multiple steady states and indeterminacy; micro-simulations of various markets, such as education and electricity, using agent-based computational economics