Faculty

Jan Hanousek has been a Professor at CERGE, Charles University, and up to August 2023 a Senior Researcher at Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Science. Jan was a Citicorp Associate Professor of Corporate Finance with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI from 2018 to 2023; prior to that he was a Citigroup Endowment Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) and a Citigroup Professor of Financial Markets at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter). Jan served as Director of CERGE and EI (1999-2003), Deputy Director of Graduate Studies (1994-1999), and a Member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI (1999-2010). Jan also served as Vice-president of the Czech Economic Society (2019-2021). The Czech Academy of Sciences granted him the title of DSc. ("Research Professor"). He graduated in Probability and Statistics from Charles University and received a CSc. (Ph.D.) in Statistics from Charles University. He was a Visiting Professor at William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, a Research Fellow at the City University of New York, Consultant to the World Bank, Washington, D.C., and a Senior Researcher at Czech National Bank. Jan's research work has been published in many leading economic journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Quantitative Financial Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, European Economic Review and others, аs well as in books. He was awarded by Jan Švejnar and Katherine Terrell's teaching price.

Research Orientation:

Applied econometrics, applied finance (corporate finance, financial econometrics), banking and finance, econometrics, public finance, and statistics