Faculty

Filip Matějka has been an Associate Professor with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2016. He has also been a Professor at CERGE, Charles University since 2023 and a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2016. Filip has been Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, London, a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and American Economic Review. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from Princeton University. He graduated from Charles University in Physics. He is awarded by prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant "Economics of Inattention" (2021-2026). Filip received the Award of the Minister of Education of the Czech Republic, American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award, Exeter Prize for the best paper in experimental economics, and The Neuron Award for promising young scientists. He was a Visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, USA. Filip’s research work has been published in several leading economics journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, and others.

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Research Orientation:

Macroeconomics, information economics (mostly rational inattention) and behavioral economics