CERGE-EI Student wins Bulgarian teaching award

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Petar Stankov, a CERGE-EI PhD candidate, current CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor at Sofia’s University of National and World Economy (UNWE) has won that university’s 2012 “Teacher of the Year” award. The UNWE was recently ranked as the top university in the country by the Bulgarian Institute for National Policy.

Its student community organized the teacher award for the first time this year with all students eligible to vote. A total of two awards were made, one for full professors and one for assistant professors, the latter being won by Petar. Nearly 600 teaching staff were eligible for the prize, which further illustrates the significance of the award.

Learn more about the impact that the CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows program – applications are currently being accepted! And congratulations are most certainly in order for Petar, who has graced these pages before when he won a distinguished Global Development Network (GDN) prize in 2011.

Call for Proposals – CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellowships 2012-2013

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Earlier today CERGE-EI announced a new call for teaching fellowships for graduate students available for the 2012-2013 academic year. 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 $2400 per course (on top of what the university may pay). 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 obtained by sending an email to teaching.fellows [at] cerge-ei.cz. Emails sent to that address will be automatically forwarded to the administrative staff responsible for the program.

The DEADLINE for submitting applications is May 25, 2012. Decisions will be announced in mid-June.

Call for Proposals – 13th Annual CERGE-EI / GDN Research Competition

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CERGE-EI, which serves as the Central and Eastern European regional hub for the Global Development Network (GDN), has issued a call for proposals for its annual Regional Research Competition (RRC). Current students, faculty, researchers and alumni are actively encouraged to submit proposals. The focus is on policy-relevant, empirical work in any of the social sciences.

The deadline for this year’s competition is July 2, 2012 (per postmark). To get an idea at what sorts of projects have been supported in the past twelve years, take a look at the listing of active and completed projects on the CERGE-EI GDN RRC page. You can download the call for proposals on that same page.

If you don’t yet know about the GDN’s Regional Network page for the CEE region, now would be an excellent time to check it out! You can become a member of the GDNet network for free by signing up and making a researcher profile here.

CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships Announcement

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We are pleased to be able to announce that applications are now being accepted for CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships for Western-educated economists returning to Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union to teach.

The purpose of the fellowship is to make academic careers in the post-communist countries more attractive for such graduates by providing supplemental income that should bridge the gap between academic and private sector salaries. The fellowship also provides a set of services designed to improve the academic environment for the fellow. Fellowships are awarded for three years and offer funding in the amount of $7200 per year. Full details and the application form are available on the CERGE-EI website. The deadline for submitting applications is May 25, 2012.

Czech Business Magazine Praises CERGE-EI’s influence

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CERGE-EI’s faculty and the IDEA project earned high accolades from the Czech business weekly Profit in its article on the most influential economists in the country. According to the magazine’s custom-made index, Jan Švejnar is the third most publicly visible Czech economist. Among academic economists, ranked according to the RePEc index, CERGE-EI dominates with six faculty members and two graduates in the top ten.

Profit reserved special praise for the IDEA project which it described as the only independent policy oriented think-tank in the country. While bemoaning the lack of other similar centers dedicated to evidence-based research and policy making, the article extolled IDEA’s achievements in analyzing and evaluating the government’s current tax and pension reforms and in developing an original proposal for economic reforms. Article text (in Czech) available here.

CERGE-EI Spring 2012 Seminars Begin This Week

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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

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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

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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).

Enjoy!