Aktuality
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Our students received Roger Noll Prize
Our student Jan Liehman has received the 2019 Roger Noll Prize for his undergraduate thesis in sports economics. The purpose of the Noll Prize is to recognize and encourage empirical undergraduate scholarship in sports economics.
The winning thesis Do National Hockey League Players Perform Better During Their Contract Years? was supervised by our colleague Matěj Opatrný.
In 2018, the winner of the prize was our student Jakub Linhart. His thesis US Collegiate Football Analysis: Team’s Success as an Indicator of Academic Performance was completed under supervision of dr. Radek Janhuba.
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Interview with the winning team of CFA Research Challenge – Local Round
On Tuesday, February 6th, the Charles University team, formed by the students of the Institute of Economic Studies FSV UK, won the Local Round of the prestigious CFA Research Challenge, an annual global student competition organized by the CFA Institute.
The winning team - Tadeáš Krejčí, Michal Petrouš, Jakub Říha, Ira Saktor and Norbert Skákala – won in the competition among ten other teams from the Czech Republic and Slovakia and will represent these countries in the Regional Final in Dublin on April 4th – 5th. The Global Final will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 27th 2018.
