In this interview, Radim Boháček, PhD. (CERGE-EI) discusses a Czech-Swiss project developing smartphone-based tools for the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases as part of the neuroSHARE project, titled Remote Assessment of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Dementia. The broad collaboration includes members of the neuroSHARE research team — Vojtěch Illner, PhD., Pavla Mašková, Jan Rusz, PhD. from CTU FEL – Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and Petr Dušek, MD, PhD. from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University — as well as partners from Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS). Continue reading Detecting Neurodegenerative Diseases Earlier: How Czech and Swiss Researchers Are Developing Remote Screening Tools
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New Insights into the Impact of Emerging Technologies
Digital technologies, automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping how we learn, work and produce new knowledge. But how profound are these changes, and who is affected most? The Programme Jan Amos Comenius (OP JAK) research project “New Technologies and Transformations of Education, Research and the Labour Market,” led by Prof. Štěpán Jurajda of CERGE-EI, examines how technology is entering education, research and the economy, and how it is changing the skills people will need in the future. One of the project’s key questions is whether digital transformation may deepen existing gender inequalities—or create new ones—in access to technological skills and in the ways those skills are used. Continue reading New Insights into the Impact of Emerging Technologies
Migration, Refugees and Work: What Helps Integration?
In a new episode of Talking Economics, CERGE-EI Assistant Professor Achim Ahrens discusses what economic research tells us about migration, refugees and access to work in receiving countries. Speaking with host Katarina Stehlíková Štěpánková, Ahrens explains that the labour market effects of migration are highly context-dependent. While public debate often assumes that migration automatically lowers native wages or employment, empirical research points to a more nuanced picture. Continue reading Migration, Refugees and Work: What Helps Integration?
When Geopolitics Becomes Macroeconomics: Shocks, Scenarios, and Uncertain Outlook
In the new episode of Talking Economics, CERGE-EI alum Kamil Kovář, Director at Moody’s Analytics, joins us to discuss how geopolitical and economic shocks are reshaping the real economy. The conversation looks at what has changed most fundamentally in macroeconomic forecasting, why scenarios are becoming more important than single-point predictions, and what current risks mean for the global economy, Europe, and the Czech Republic.
Continue reading When Geopolitics Becomes Macroeconomics: Shocks, Scenarios, and Uncertain Outlook
Researching Migration Through Economics
How do migrants integrate, and what happens when policy does not just regulate but stigmatizes? In this interview, CERGE-EI’s new faculty member Teresa Freitas-Monteiro discusses her current research on migration, cultural backlash, administrative data, and why discriminatory policies can have effects far beyond economics. Continue reading Researching Migration Through Economics
How Economic Shocks Shape Careers. Talking Economics Emerging Scholars with Margarita Pavlova
In the latest episode of Talking Economics Emerging Scholars, we speak with Margarita Pavlova, a CERGE-EI PhD candidate and an applied microeconomist specializing in labor and gender economics. Margarita studies how macroeconomic conditions, labor market policies, and institutional settings shape labor market outcomes over time. Continue reading How Economic Shocks Shape Careers. Talking Economics Emerging Scholars with Margarita Pavlova
When delayed retirement reshapes the workplace. Talking Economics Emerging Scholars with Sona Badalyan
Most research on retirement asks a simple question: when do people choose to stop working, and why? In the newest episode of Talking Economics Emerging Scholars, CERGE-EI job market candidate Sona Badalyan takes a different angle. She looks at raised retirement age as something that also happens to firms and coworkers—a change that can ripple through promotions, hiring, and peer effects. Continue reading When delayed retirement reshapes the workplace. Talking Economics Emerging Scholars with Sona Badalyan
Conclave Insider: Game Theory of Choosing a Pope
The papal conclave is often portrayed as a closed, ritualized event. But behind the secrecy lies a voting procedure with clear strategic logic. In this interview, CERGE-EI faculty Jan Zápal introduces the study Electing the pope: Elections by repeated ballots which he coauthors with Clara Ponsati. It explains how the pope is elected through repeated rounds requiring a two-thirds majority, why this system can in principle last for months or even years, and how economists model such elections to understand what kinds of winners the rules tend to produce. Along the way, they connect the conclave to other institutions that use similar repeated voting, and argue that long-standing rules can also confer legitimacy on the final choice. Continue reading Conclave Insider: Game Theory of Choosing a Pope
From Prague to Chicago to Princeton, via the New York Fed
What starts as a single email can turn into a research-shaping journey. As Gayane Baghumyan, a PhD student and aspiring experimental economist at CERGE-EI, describes in this Places You’ll Go interview, it unfolded like this: a CERGE-EI–supported research stay became six months at the University of Chicago, hosted by John List, followed by a Stapleton Award–funded visit to Princeton and a conference stop at the New York Fed. Along the way, she discovered an intense seminar culture, world-class faculty who were unexpectedly down-to-earth, and “random conversations” that sharpened her research design and broadened her view of how economics can influence the world. Continue reading From Prague to Chicago to Princeton, via the New York Fed
Confidence, Curiosity, and California: Reflections on a Study Stay
From Prague to Berkeley, this interview traces the academic and personal journey of our PhD student Tereza Burýšková, who spent a study stay
at the University of California, Berkeley. Her experiences open a new interview series titled Places You’ll Go, sharing reflections on the decision-making process, cultural adjustments, and differences in academic environments. The interview aims to encourage other students to take a similar step. It offers an honest look at what it means to move beyond one’s comfort zone. Continue reading Confidence, Curiosity, and California: Reflections on a Study Stay