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George Vachadze, our PhD graduate from 1999, has recently been appointed Full Professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.  How does he remember his studies at CERGE-EI and what is he currently working on? Read the latest interview published on the CERGE-EI blog.

Read more: People of CERGE-EI: Meet Our Alumni

Alena Bičáková, Matias Cortes (York University), and Jacopo Mazza (University of Essex) analyzed how students who enroll in a university in the UK and the US during a recession end up performing at the labor market. The authors recently wrote about their paper for The LSE blog.

Read more: Benefits of Starting College in Bad Economic Times

The decision of the Czech National Bank to increase its repo rate, investments in education, and family policy were among the topics that CERGE-EI experts commented on in the Czech media in September. 

Read more: Media Highlights for September

The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was divided, with one half awarded to David Card "for his empirical contributions to labour economics", and the other half awarded jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships."

Read more: Nobel Prize in Economics: David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens Share the 2021 Award

In February 2021, CERGE-EI’s Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec had their paper entitled “Predatory Publishing in Scopus: Evidence on Cross-country Differences” published in Scientometrics journal, one of the leading scientific journals in the field.

Read more: Standing up to Retraction of Inconvenient Research