Students' Successes
Student success is our priority. Our PhD in Economics and MA in Economic Research students actively participate in various competitions and their papers regularly collect awards. Their efforts have brought exceptional results across the region. We are proud of their success!
2022
- We promoted seven excellent PhD Job Market candidates for 2011-22.
- Dozens of our graduates have embarked on successful careers in the private sector, working across industries and various geographies as economists, data scientists, analysts, auditors, credit advisors, risk modelers, business directors, and machine learning specialists. Some of our fresh 2022 graduates have already secured outstanding professional placements (e.g., Kamil Kovář, who is Assistant Director at Moody´s Analytics, and Gega Todua, who works as a Risk Model Validator at Deutsche Bank in Berlin). To give an example of an outstanding academic placement, the about-to-graduate Olexiy Kyrychenko is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University.
- Our students Azizbek Tokhirov, Lukáš Jordán and Vlada Kosenkova were awarded the 2022 Second-Year Research Fellowships sponsored by CERGE-EI. The Fellowships are awarded for the best research proposals submitted by PhD in Economics students.
- CERGE-EI students and recent graduates once again swept the board at the Czech Economic Society’s Young Economist of the Year award ceremony. Jan Hanousek Jr. (MAE) won first place, Azizbek Tokhirov (PhD) came in second, and Ante Šterc (PhD) completed the list of laureates.
- Azizbek Tokhirov, a third-year student at CERGE-EI, was the first ever recipient of the recently established Stapleton Scholars Award.
2021
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
Ketevani Kapanadze won first place in the Young Economist 2021 competition. Bohdana Kurylo came in second, Sergei Mikhalishchev and Mariia Kosar came in third. Jan Žemlička received the Karel Engliš Prize for the best policy paper. The Czech Economic Society awards these prizes.
CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship 2021 Competition
Martin Kosík, Jan Žemlička, and Arseniy Shcherbov are the winners of this year's CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship, a special fellowship sponsored by RSJ Foundation.
2021 Young Economists’ Meeting at Masaryk University
Ella Sargsyan received the Best Paper Award at the 2021 Young Economists’ Meeting organized by Masaryk University, Brno.
Bratislava Climathon 2021
CERGE-EI's graduates Kristína Hrehová and Tomáš Mičko are members of a team that won first prize in the Bratislava Climathon 2021 competition in the field of mobility with their travel time comparator.
2020
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
Applied Economics program graduate Jan Hanousek Jr. won the second prize for his paper. Our PhD student Daniil Kashakrov has received Honourable Recognition by the President of the CES for an Excellent Paper for Authors under 25 years of age for his paper.
CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship 2020 Competition
Marta Cota, Artem Razumovskii and Sona Badalyan are the winners of this year's CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship, a special fellowship sponsored by RSJ Foundation.
2019
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
The title Young Economist of the Year 2019 has been awarded to PhD students Vladimír Novák and Andrei Matveenko. Filip Staněk has got the third place.
Michal Šoltés and Klára Svitáková have won Karel Engliš Award for the best paper on Czech economic policy.
Josef Hlávka Prize
CERGE-EI graduate Radek Janhuba was among five young researchers awarded with the Josef Hlávka Prize.
PhD student Jakub Grossmann won the František Venclovský Prize
CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship 2019 Competition
Pavel Ilinov, Daniil Kashkarov, and Michal Hakala are the winners of this year's CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship, a special fellowship sponsored by RSJ Foundation.
2018
CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship 2018 Competition
Bohdana Kurylo, Maxim Senkov and Vladimir Pirlik are the winners of this year's CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship, a special fellowship sponsored by RSJ Foundation. The purpose of the fellowship, sponsored by the RSJ Foundation, is to facilitate the transition from course work to dissertation research and help students to fully concentrate on the first steps of their research career.
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
CERGE-EI graduate Ludmila Matysková and PhD student Matěj Bělín have received the first and the third prize, respectively, in the CSE’s Young Economist of the Year competition.
2017
CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship 2017 Competition
Kristina Jablonicka, Matej Belin and Sergei Mikhalishchev are the winners of this year's CERGE-EI Second-Year Research Fellowship, a special fellowship sponsored by RSJ Foundation. The purpose of these fellowships is to facilitate the transition from course work to dissertation research and increase the probability that students will successfully complete their studies at CERGE-EI in an expeditious manner.
Mykola Babiak Wins the 2017 Best Paper in Theoretical Economics
Mykola Babiak’s paper "Generalized Disappointment Aversion, Learning, and Variance Premium" won the 1st place in the 2017 Competition for the Best Student Paper in Theoretical Economics awarded by the Czech Econometric Society.
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
CERGE-EI PhD students Mykola Babiak and Nikoloz Kudashvili have received the first and the second prize, respectively, in the CSE’s Young Economist of the Year competition.
2016
CFA Institute Research Challenge
The team of Linda Do, Marek Rakowski, Miroslav Stranovsky, Fabio Herrero (MA in Applied Economics students) and Iuliia Brushko (PhD in Economics student) proceeded to the national round of the CFA Investment Research Challenge, and placed 5th. The teams had to do investment research of Unipetrol, including a country & industry overview, business description, financial analysis, valuation, and make recommendations.
KPMG International Case Competition
Linda Do and Marek Rakowski (both MA in Applied Economics students) were part of a team, which advanced to the national final of a globally organized 2-week competition. The goal was to develop innovative and real-world business solutions.
Roland Berger Case Competition
Linda Do (MA in Applied Economics student) joined a team which won the Roland Berger Case Competition. The teams had to master market research and analyzing trends in the construction industry followed by completing a strategy proposition for a company producing construction chemicals and plastics.
Wicksell Prize
Ján Palguta (PhD in Economics student) was selected among the top three candidates for the Wicksell prize 2016. This prize is awarded by the European Public Choice Society to the best paper written by an under thirty author.
MOL’s Freshhh competition 2016
Linda Do, Marek Rakowski (MA in Applied Economics students) and Jakub Kuba (Consulting Club 307) were members of the winning team called “Dirty Drilling”, out of 2300 teams worldwide. Players managed a simulated reality of a refinery and fuel stations network; used excel models, technology-focused logic and precise calculations; the task was to expand the company and increase its value/profitability.
CERGE-EI Publication in the American Economic Review: June 6, 2016
CERGE-EI PhD Candidate, Vojtěch Bartoš, along with CERGE-EI academics Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Filip Matějka have had their research, "Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition," published in the latest issue of the American Economic Review.
Their findings will have serious implications for discrimination and policy intervention in labor markets across the globe.
Data-Driven Changemakers: Datathon
Robert Stickney, MA in Applied Economics student, was a member of the Datathon winning team, which was selected for project on ʺLiveable Prague: How Can We Achieve a Well Balanced City?ʺ Other team members were Karel Golan, Eva Horákova, Greta Solani and Michal Kubišta.
First Place at the “Students Encountering Science” conference
Danijela Vuletic’s paper “How Effective were Reminders and Frames in Incentivizing Blood Donations” placed on the first place in the Social Sciences Section at the 9th international scientific conference “Students Encountering Science” (StES 2016), which took place in November in Banja Luka, Bosna and Herzegovina.
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
CERGE-EI PhD students Gega Todua and Michal Šoltés have received the second and the third prize, respectively, in the CSE’s Young Economist of the Year competition.
2015
CFA Research Challenge
Three M.A. in Applied Economics students, Andrea Šandorová, Milan Lupač and Jindřich Gallo, advanced to Czech Republic’s final round.
First CERGE-EI Alumni Award for the Best Student Paper in Finance
CERGE-EI PhD student Jakub Matějů won the very first alumni award with his paper.
UniCredit & Universities Foundation
A paper authored by CERGE-EI faculty members Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Filip Matějka and PhD student, Vojtěch Bartoš, won a prize for the Best Paper in Economics of Discrimination.
Slovak Economic Research Association Meeting
A paper authored by PhD student Ján Palguta, won a prize for the Best Student Paper.
Czech Economic Society: Young Economist of the Year Competition
CERGE-EI PhD students Jakub Matějů, Maxim Goryunov, and Ján Palguta won all top three prizes.
BCG Strategy Cup 2015
MA in Applied Economics students, Linda Do, Marek Rakowski, Miroslav Straňovsky and MA in Applied Economics alumnus Milan Lupač won the competition.
PwC Financial Challenge 2015
MA in Applied Economics student Linda Do and MA in Applied Economics alumnus Milan Lupač were members of the winning team.
Prof. František Vencovský Prize
PhD student Volha Audzei was awarded a share of first prize and PhD student Jakub Matějů won a third price.
