We are pleased to be able to announce the release of our new promotional video, which was made over the past several months. Several current students and alumni appear in the vode, so give it a look!
Discover CERGE-EI: New Video Released
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CERGE-EI Spring 2012 Seminars Begin This Week
As the new semester gets rolling, it’s also time for our thrice-weekly seminars series to begin as well. The first this semester is to take place on Thursday, January 27, 2012. Dr. Debrah Meloso from Bocconi University will present “Dynamically Complete Experimental Asset Markets” at 4:30pm in Room 7. All alumni are invited and we hope to see some of you there! Full details for the rest of the semester can always be found on the CERGE-EI online calendar pages.
CERGE-EI Open Day – December 8, 2011
We are pleased to announce that on Thursday, December 8, CERGE-EI will hold its 2011 Open Day for prospective students. Download the .pdf version of the flyer and please help us spread the word to potential students interested in the CERGE-EI MA, PhD and MAE programs!
The events start at 2:00pm with a presentation by Director Štěpán Jurajda. Alumni are cordially invited – you are are our best evidence of the strength of the program and attendees are always keen on speaking with people who have finished the program and can speak to its qualities. We hope to see you there!
Video of CERGE-EI Founder’s Session, 20th Anniversary Weekend
We invite all alumni to watch the gala opening session which took place on October 8, 2011 to launch the CERGE-EI 20th anniversary weekend. The session was followed by a champagne reception honoring the organization’s founders and graduates.
The celebratory panel featured remarks and toasts by CERGE-EI’s founders and ESC members Jan Švejnar and Josef Zieleniec; founder Richard Quandt; its current director, Štěpán Jurajda; the rector of Charles University, Václav Hampl; the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jiří Drahoš; and the EBRD principal economist Anita Taçi (CERGE-EI PhD, 2000).
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Call for Proposals – CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellowships, Spring 2012
Earlier today CERGE-EI announced a new call for teaching fellowships for graduate students available for the 2012 spring semester. The purpose of the fellowship is to help improve the quality of economics education in Central and Eastern Europe.
The fellowship will sponsor advanced CERGE-EI students and CERGE-EI alumni (MA or PhD) to teach economics courses, broadly defined, at other CEE/CIS universities. The fellowship award is $2,400 per course (on top of what the university may pay). Note that this is the second call for proposals for this academic year so between 5-8 new courses will be sponsored. Stronger preference will be given to more introductory-level courses and those with larger enrollments.
All the relevant information (application procedure, list of universities/courses, etc.) can be found in this call for applications document.
The DEADLINE for submitting applications is December 1, 2011. Decisions will be announced in mid-December. Questions should be directed to Sergey Slobodyan, the Teaching Fellows Mentor.
Pair of Students keep “Young Economist of the Year” award at CERGE-EI
Peter Ondko and Vahagn Jerbashian, CERGE-EI students and Junior Researchers, received the first and second prize, respectively, in the 2011 “Young Economist of the Year” competition held by the Czech Economic Society. Peter Ondko’s winning paper is titled “Selection and Performance Gains in Horizontal and Vertical Acquisitions” and Vahagn Jerbashian’s second-prize winner, titled “The Telecommunications Industry and Economic Growth: How the Market Structure Matters” is available for download as a CERGE-EI Working Paper.
The 2010 prize was awarded to CERGE-EI faculty member Filip Matějka. Congratulations to Peter and Vahagn for keeping the prize at CERGE-EI!
Photos from the 20th Anniversary Weekend
Last weekend’s numerous activities were a resounding success, and it was fantastic to see so many alumni back in Prague – sometimes for the first time in 10+ years! Our roaming photographer captured hundreds of images – feel free to have a look here!
CERGE-EI congratulates 2011 Nobel Winners
CERGE-EI congratulates both 2011 Laureates in Economics Science, Professors Thomas Sargent (NYU) and Christopher Sims (Princeton), who were awarded the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
CERGE-EI takes further pride in the fact that another one of our faculty members was supervised by one of the new Nobel Laureates (see last year’s post on the 2010 Nobel Laureates and their link to CERGE-EI faculty). Assistant Professor Filip Matějka was supervised by Laureate Christopher Sims during his PhD work work at Princeton University. Matějka’s dissertation was titled “Rational Inattention and Information in Economics” and was completed in 2010, just before joining the CERGE-EI faculty.
Matějka recently co-authored a working paper with Professor Sims in the CERGE-EI Working Paper series titled “Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Tracking Problems.”
Humboldt Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers
Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers are the instrument with which the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad who are just embarking on their academic careers and who completed their doctorates less than four years ago1 to spend extended periods of research (6–24 months) in Germany. Scientists and scholars from all disciplines and countries may apply.
Research projects are carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Candidates choose their own research projects and their host in Germany and prepare their own research plan. Details of the research project and the time schedule must be agreed upon with the prospective host in advance. Short-term visits for study and training purposes or for attending conferences are not eligible for sponsorship.
CEU Teaching and Learning Fellowship (SOTL) program – Call for Proposals
Central European University’s (CEU) Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) has issued a call for proposals for their “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” (SOTL) fellowship program for full-time university teachers in the Central and Eastern European region, CIS countries, and Mongolia. All CERGE-EI alumni working in academic in the CEE/CIS region are encouraged to take a look at this opportunity.
The fellowship is set up to help teachers design and implement research projects concerned with any relevant aspect of their teaching, using their own courses and classrooms as units of inquiry. It is one year non-residential research grant with two writing residencies in Budapest. Application forms can be found on the CEU Curriculum Resource Center website. The deadline for applications is 19 September, 2011.