News
VoxEU.org: “Crime and Punishment”: How Russian banks anticipated and dealt with global financial sanctions
16 June, 2021
Mikhail Mamonov (Junior Researcher, CERGE-EI), Anna Pestova (PhD student, CERGE-EI) and Steven Onega (University of Zurich) in their column for VoxEU.org explore the informational effects of financial sanctions against Russia’s state-owned and controlled banks compared to similar private banks ‘not yet sanctioned’.
CERGE-EI Media Highlights for May
11 June, 2021
"We say it's important to invest in infrastructure and it’s important to note that education is also a part of infrastructure," said Jan Švejnar on the radio program Interview Plus.
Poverty and People's Economic Behaviour
9 June, 2021
Thinking about poverty leads to greater impatience – people tend to postpone unpleasant activities. This effect may then contribute to the long-term nature of poverty. This is the result of an experiment reported in a joint paper published in the Economic Journal by Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely.
Dissertation Workshop presentations started
1 June, 2021
This week the Dissertation Workshop presentations are taking place.
A Year's Worth of Great IDEAs
27 May, 2021
IDEA, the think-tank of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences focusing on policy-relevant research and recommendations, just published its annual Book of Abstracts.
