NET 2019 Results
NET 2019: Final Results
The final round of the 5th New Economic Talent competition took place on Friday, May 31, at CERGE-EI.
Four finalists presented their papers in front of the CERGE-EI evaluation committee (Randall Filer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Marek Kapicka, an Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI, and Ctirad Slavík, Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI), 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!
First place:
Charoo Anand (London School of Economics): Do mortgage lenders discriminate against African American areas? An instrumental variable approach
Second place:
Maksim Bakhtin (New Economic School): Selling Information to Heterogeneous Buyers
Joint third place:
Alina Ozhegova (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Segmentation of Theatre Audiences: Latent Class Approach for Combined Data
Alexander Tishin (New Economic School): Monetary Policy Surprises in Russia
Results of the First Round
The Evaluation Committee has selected the top 15 papers and the top 4 finalists, who will present their papers during the final round in Prague on May 31, 2019. Congratulations to all!
New Economic Talent 2019 finalists (listed in alphabetical order):
Charoo Anand (London School of Economics): Do mortgage lenders discriminate against African American areas? An instrumental variable approach
Maksim Bakhtin (New Economic School): Selling Information to Heterogeneous Buyers
Alina Ozhegova (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Segmentation of Theatre Audiences: Latent Class Approach for Combined Data
Alexander Tishin (New Economic School): Monetary Policy Surprises in Russia
Other Papers That Made it to Top 15 (listed in alphabetical order):
Mikayel Harutyunyan (Charles University in Prague): The Truth Behind the Lies: Does Personality Predict Dishonesty?
Sara Izquierdo Martínez (Universidad Carlos lll de Madrid): The Power of Information: Media Usage and Gender Attitudes in Africa
Sevara Kamolova (Westminster International University in Tashkent): The Role of Remittance Inflow and Business Start-up Regulations in Stock Market Development
Hristina Manolova (University of Mannheim): Wage Dynamics in Bulgaria
Begoña Molina Muros (Univeristeit van Amsterdam): Open innovation and incentives
Maryna Romanko (Tonkoshkur), (Kyiv School of Economics): Detecting suspicious behavior in public procurement auctions
Jing Lian Suah (London School of Economics and Political Science): Mismanaged Expectations: The Distributional Impacts of Exchange Rate Shocks at the Sectoral-Level
Oleksandr Sukhomlyn (Kyiv School of Economics): Communicative Efficiency in Ukraine’s Banking System: Evidence From Independent Auditor Reports
Ivan Suvorov (New Economic School): Expected and Unexpected Consequences of Russian Pension Increase in 2010
Šimon Trlifaj (Central European University): How Knowledge Becomes a Public Good: Permanency, Patents and Secrecy
TianYang Zhang (University of Cambridge): Textual Analysis: The effect of the Bank of England inflation reports On the UK 3-Month Treasury Bill rates
