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CERGE-EI Turn of the Year Update: A Message from CERGE-EI Director, Michal Kejak

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Dear friends, colleagues and supporters of CERGE-EI,

As 2014 comes to an end, I would like to once again thank you all for your generous support of CERGE- EI’s research and educational mission. I would also like to take this opportunity to summarize what we have achieved together this year:

  • CERGE-EI faculty and researchers published 32 articles in ISI impact-ranked journals including American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, The Economic Journal, and Review of Finance. It is a special pleasure to announce that Filip Matějka has a forthcoming article in the American Economic Review.
  • Our community was honored to witness Prof. Orley Ashenfelter, former President of the American Economic Association and editor of the American Economic Review, former member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee, and current member of the CERGE-EI Foundation Board of Directors, awarded an honorary doctorate from Charles University.
  • Selecting from other academic achievements, Jakub Steiner and Štěpán Jurajda were appointed docent (Associate Professor) and Professor by Charles University, respectively. Patrick Gaulé has been awarded the Otto Wichterle Award, an honor given by the Czech Academy of Sciences to stimulate and encourage exceptionally promising young scientists.
  • Students from 15 countries started their studies in our PhD program (26 students) and Masters in Applied Economics program (21 students), coming from countries as diverse as Croatia, India, Ivory Coast, and Lithuania. CERGE-EI awarded 10 PhDs and 21 MAs in our flagship PhD in Economics program, and 15 MAs in our Masters in Applied Economics program.
  • We are proud to announce that, as last year, CERGE-EI PhD students have again dominated the Young Economist of the Year competition organized by the Czech Economic Society. First place went to Vojtěch Bartoš, second to Olga Popova, and third to Klára Kalíšková.

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