Faculty

Krešimir Žigić has been the Citigroup Endowment Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) since 2007 and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2004. 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 served as Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE and EI in 1997–1999, 2005–2008, and 2015–2017. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb and received his Ph.D. in Economics at CERGE-EI. He was Philip Morris Associate Professor, Česká spořitelna Chair, and Altria Group Associate Professor. His work was published in many periodicals as Research in Economics, Economica, Journal of Economics, and more, as in books “Strategic Interactions and Policy Implications in Markets with Innovative Activity: The Cases of Strategic Trade and Market Leadership.”

Research Orientation:
International trade, industrial organization, applied microeconomics