Institute of Economic Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University

 All students of IES FSV UK are cordially invited to the LSEEMF on 15th and 16th of March 2019, at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London.    The  LSE SU Emerging Markets Forum  (“LSEEMF”) is the world’s largest student conference focused...

Charles University offers Program Awareness Scholarships to full-time students at the Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral level interested in taking the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute examination. The scholarships reduce the CFA Program enrollment...

The list of internship possibilities for our students was updated. Newly to the ECB. Please see the details  here.

An article of our colleague Michal Červinka, “ Convergence of a Scholtes-type regularization method for cardinality-constrained optimization problems with an application in sparse robust portfolio optimization ” was published in the Computational...

Applications for the Next Generation Women Leaders award are now open! We invite female students of all backgrounds to apply for our scholarship designed to recognize talent and support women who would like to maximize their own potential. This is your...

If you demand catch-up lessons for courses at the IES or if you are willing to provide catch-up lessons, join our informal market with catch-up lessons. The conditions of provision of the lessons and the compensation are fully upon agreement of the...

Our colleagues Tomáš Havránek and Zuzana Havránková (in cooperation with doctoral student Dominik Herman) published a meta-analysis on influence of daylight saving time on energy consumption. In connection with the analysis, Tomáš Havránek was...

The world's largest student-run conference on Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Venture Capital is organised by LSE students. The 2019 AIC promises to provide a dynamic forum for education and networking between leading luminaries from the hedge fund,...

We would like to congratulate Zuzana Havránková for being promoted by Charles University to the rank of Associate Professors. The promotion is effective since December 1, 2018.

Our colleague Tomáš Havránek, together with Mojmír Hampl, introduces and develops the concept of direct household consumption support by the central bank. The idea of "spreading money from a helicopter" and thus helping growth in demand and inflation...