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The second intake for CERGE-EI degree programs is now underway, with a deadline of August 7, 2026, offering ambitious students another opportunity to join one of the region’s most respected academic institutions in economics.
In our Places You’ll Go series, we follow CERGE-EI students as they take their research abroad and bring new ideas back to Prague.
Our job market candidate, Margarita Pavlova, is the latest guest in the Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars podcast series, which highlights the research and career journeys of CERGE-EI PhD in Economics candidates and recent graduates.
CERGE-EI is launching a new public lecture series, the John Bates Clark Medal Talks, highlighting the work of outstanding young economists whose research is advancing the whole field.
A program run in cooperation of CERGE-EI and Prague University of Economics and Business
Korovkin Vasily, and Alexey Makarin. 2023. “Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis.” American Economic Review, 113(1): 34–70.
Buchholz, Nicholas, Laura Doval, Jakub Kastl, Filip Matejka, and Tobias Salz. 2025. “Personalized Pricing and the Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides.” Econometrica, 93(3): 929–958.
Ottinger, Sebastian, and Nico Voigtländer. 2025. “History’s Masters The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance.” Econometrica, 93(1): 95–128.
Mackowiak, Bartosz, Filip Matejka, and Mirko Wiederholt. 2023. “Rational Inattention: A Review.” Journal of Economic Literature, 61(1): 226–273.
Ochsner, Christian, and Felix Roesel. 2024. “Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(3): 76–112.
Robson, Arthur, Larry Samuelson, and Jakub Steiner. 2023. “Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth.” American Economic Review: Insights, 5(3): 357–376.
Samuelson, Larry, and Jakub Steiner. 2025. “Growth and Redistribution: The Hedging Perspective.” American Economic Review: Insights, 7(2): 250–267.
Kina, Özlem, Ctirad Slavík, and Hakki Yazici. 2024. “Redistributive Capital Taxation Revisited.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(2): 182–216.
Ashenfelter, Orley, and Štěpán Jurajda. Forthcoming. “The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison.” Review of Economics and Statistics.
Celhay, Pablo, Bruce D. Meyer, and Nikolas Mittag. Forthcoming. “Stigma in Welfare Programs.” Review of Economics and Statistics.
Celhay, Pablo, Bruce D. Meyer, and Nikolas Mittag. 2024. “What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys.” Journal of Econometrics, 238(2): 105581.
Anatolyev, Stanislav, and Mikkel Sølvsten. 2023. “Testing Many Restrictions Under Heteroskedasticity.” Journal of Econometrics, 236(1): 105473.
A member of the CERGE-EI's Executive and Supervisory Committee Philippe Aghion has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics... more
Public lecture by Filip Matějka: Society in the Age of Inattention took place at CERGE-EI... more
Nobel Prize Laureate Alvin E. Roth Visits CERGE-EI... more
Professor Švejnar Was Awarded a State Decoration for His Work... more
Christian Ochsner in the American Economic Association Research Highlights... more
Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Milgrom Receives Honorary Scientific Degree from Charles University... more
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