NET 2018 Results
NET 2018: Final Results
The final round of the 4th New Economic Talent competition, organized by CERGE-EI for university students, took place on Friday, June 1, at CERGE-EI.
Three finalists presented their papers in front of the CERGE-EI evaluation committee (Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley and Randall Filer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, who are both CERGE-EI visiting senior faculty, and Filip Matejka, an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI and a recipient of an ERC Starting Grant), who offered feedback and recommendations for the students' future research.
Our thanks go to all who took part in the competition this year, and special congratulations to the finalists on their excellent work.
Read our Blog interviews with 2018 finalists.
First place:
Sitong Ding, London School of Economics
Paper: Bounded Rationality in Rules of Price Adjustment and the Phillips Curve
Joint second place:
Sebastian Beug, Humboldt University of Berlin
Paper: Federal Governments and the German Economy – An Empiric Exploration
Kyung Woong Koh, Yonsei University
Paper: Snowballs and Dominoes: Towards a General Theory of Democratization Waves
Results of the First Round
The Evaluation Committee has selected the top 9 papers and the top 3 finalists, who will present their papers during the final round in Prague in June 2018. Congratulations to all!
New Economic Talent 2018 Finalists (listed in alphabetical order):
Sebastian Beug, Humboldt University of Berlin
Paper: Federal Governments and the German Economy – An Empiric Exploration
Sitong Ding, London School of Economics
Paper: Bounded Rationality in Rules of Price Adjustment and the Phillips Curve
Kyung Woong Koh, Yonsei University
Paper: Snowballs and Dominoes: Towards a General Theory of Democratization Waves
Other Papers That Made It to Top 9:
We also would like to congratulate the following participants whose papers made it to the top selection (listed in alphabetical order):
Valeriia Chukaeva, Ural Federal University
Paper: Bankruptcy of Russian enterprises: Do macroeconomic factors matter?
Donghyun Kang, Tilburg University
Paper: Stock Market Reaction to Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from the Netherlands
Stella Slučiaková, Comenius university in Bratislava
Paper: CGE model of circular economy of Slovakia
Baptiste Souillard, Université Paris Saclay
Paper: Investment climate and performance: Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms
Azizbek Tokhirov, Université Clermont Auvergne
Paper: Poverty Effects of Remittances on the Left Behinds in Albania
Luther Yap, University of Cambridge
Paper: A sequential game-theoretic approach to student learning time
