Faculty

Jan Zápal has been an Associate Professor with Tenure since 2020 and an Assistant Professor between 2012 and 2020 at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter). He has also been an Associate Professor at CERGE, Charles University, and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He received his Master's degree from the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University and a Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a visiting student at the Californian Institute of Technology, post-doctoral fellow at the IAE-CSIC in Barcelona, and a visitor at number of universities including Johns Hopkins University, Bocconi University, University of Chicago, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His work has been published in leading journals, such as Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and Political Analysis.

Research Orientation:
Political economics, economic theory.