Researchers

Matěj Bajgar has been a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since January 2021. He received his DPhil. in economics from the University of Oxford in 2016. After his doctorate, he worked for five years as an economist at the OECD. He is a practiced researcher with additional experience from Stanford University, EBRD, World Bank, and the Centre for the Study of African Economies. Matěj´s research has been published in economics journals such as Economic Journal and has featured in the Economist and the Harvard Business Review. Matěj has received various academic and research awards such as the Weidenfeld Scholarship and Leadership Award at the University of Oxford, the Renomia Award in Development Economics, and the Josef Vavroušek Award in Environmental Economics.

Research Orientation:

International economics, industrial organization, innovation economics