Faculty

Marek Kapička has been serving as the Director of CERGE, Charles University, and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI) since January 2024. He is also a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI. Previously he served as Deputy Director for Research at CERGE-EI from 2013 to 2015. He has been an Associate Professor with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI since 2013. He is a Docent (Associate Professor) at CERGE, Charles University and a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He was also an Associate Professor at U.C. Santa Barbara. He received his M.A. in Economics from Charles University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He won the Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association in 2003, and the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2013-2017. He has published in journals such as Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, or American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Research Orientation:
Macroeconomics, public finance, economic theory, contract theory