News

The guest lecture by Professor Manfred J. Holler on Value versus Utility

19/10/2012   |   Petr Janský M.Sc.

Professor Manfred J. Holler (University of Hamburg and Public Choice Research Centre at the university of Turku) will have a guest lecture on “Value versus Utility” on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 8 am in room 314, as a part of an introductory course, Principles of Economics I. All students and faculty are welcome.

Grant application info meeting

18/10/2012   |   PhDr. Lubomír Cingl

All PhD and MA students, especially first year and second year PhD students, are warmly invited to an information meeting where we will discuss the most common questions about the grant applications. The meeting is based on the idea to help all the students to proceed with their applications. Please prepare questions which can be discussed. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 24, from 18:30, room 206 at Opletalova, IES.

The Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT)

17/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

Charles University in Prague is offering students the chance to take the Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) FREE of charge on campus.By taking the BAT you gain insight into your strengths and weaknesses as relative to a career in finance while at the same time showcasing your abilities to a wide range of financial employers. After taking the BAT, you can choose to enter your profile into the Bloomberg Institute Talent Search - a tool that employers are using to find top new talent for financial employment opportunities. The Talent Search allows employers to view BAT results on an anonymous basis and send connection requests to students that may be a match for their roles
Upcoming BAT session:
19 November 2012, 10:00 – 13:00<< click here to register>>
26 November 2012, 10:00 – 13:00 << click here to register>>
29 November 2012, 16:00 – 19:00 << click here to register>>
Location: The Institute of Economic Studies, Room 016 (basement).

Alumni Banket 18.10. 2012 at the Czech National Bank

16/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

We would like to invite you to the IES Alumni Banquet that will take place on Thursday, 18 October 2012 from 19:00 in the Congress Center of the Czech National Bank, Senovážné nám. 30, Praha 1. Main point of IES Alumniis to support quality and enhance value of studies at IES. Each year, there is a Banquet meeting to award the Alumni Chair to one of perspective young IES teachers. The Banquet enables absolvents to meet and share their experience together.

This year, our guest speakers will take you through a panel discussion on the topic of “Influence ofeconomics on economic policy”. Among our guest speakers you can find both IES teachers and IES alumni Kateřina Šmídková, Vladimir Dlouhý, David Marek and Tomáš Sedláček. Moderated by Jan Zika.

Economist Program and the Fund Internship Program at the IMF

16/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

to the attention of PhD students and Masters.  Links for the Economist Program and Intern Program enxlosured, applications opened on September 14th 2012.

Invitation to the guest lecture Dr. Manfred J. Holler

16/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

Professor at the Institute of SocioEconomics University of Hamburg will present his paper “Pathology or Revelation? - The Public Good index” on Monday October 22, 2012 at 5 pm in Opletalova 26, 110 00 Praha 1, room 105. Background papers are available here.

The OECD Internship Programme

12/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

has been designed to bring highly qualified and motivated students with diverse backgrounds into the Organisation to work on projects linked to the Strategic Orientations of the Secretary-General. Its main goal is to give to successful candidates an opportunity to improve their analytical and technical skills as well as the experience to work in a truly international environment.
These internships are open for full time students, more information here. Application Closing Date: Dec 1st, 2012.

Information about lectures and seminars of JEM092

11/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

Due to the wide attendance, lectures of the course JEM092 Portfolio Analysis and Risk Management will be on Tuesdays from 12:30 h in room 016 and seminars on Friday from 8 h in room 206.

Registration for classes in the Winter Semester deadline

11/10/2012   |   PhDr. Ing. Petr Soukup

Registration for classes  and cancellation of it in the Winter Semester (through SIS) deadline is Friday, 12th 2 p.m.

New course Quantitative Methods I

10/10/2012   |   PhDr. Jana Votápková

All Master and PhD students are invited to enroll into the new course Quantitative Methods I. Its goal is to give an introduction to advanced quantitative methods in social sciences. The emphasis will be put on application of econometric methods, such as measurement of economic policies, Bayesian econometrics, high-frequency finance, robust econometrics, meta-analysis, time series econometrics or experimental econometrics. All students who want to attend this course should register in SIS.

Cancellation of techning and office hours next week

09/10/2012   |   Ing. Šárka Bokočová

I will be out of office on Friday 12th October and on Thursday-Friday 18th-19th October . The office hours on Fridays 12th and 19th October are cancelled. The teaching of the course JEB066 Economic Policy of the Czech Republic on both Fridays will however go on regularly, carried by Jan Čech.

Pavel Mertlík

IES-CSOB Award for the Best Thesis

08/10/2012   |   doc. Roman Horváth Ph.D., ČSOB Corporate Chair

We are happy to annouce that this year winners of IES-CSOB Award for the best thesis on banking, confidence and finance are:

1. Barbora Šútorová - The Impact of Basel III on European Banks 

2. Lenka Herrmannová - Forecasting Ability of Confidence Indicators: Evidence for the Czech Republic

3. Jan Šiml: Extreme Value Theory: Empirical Analysis of Tail Behaviour of GARCH Models

There is a financial award for the winners, which is 20 000CZK for the 1st place, 10 000CZK for the 2nd place and 5 000CZK for the 3rd place. Award ceremony will be held in the CSOB premises during the fall. Congratulations to the winners!

Global Investment Research Challenge 2013 (GIRC)

05/10/2012   |   Jiří Novák Ph.D., Boston Consulting Group Corporate Chair

Czech Certified Financial Analysts (CFA) Society organizes an international company valuation case competition. Teams of 3-5 students are assigned a mentor, CFA charter-holder, with an extensive business experience. Winners proceed to the European and ultimately global round. Learn more about the competition at the presentation on Wednesday 10 October 2012 at 19:30 at the University of Economics (VSE). Applications of individual students accompanied with a CV, a brief motivation letter and a transcript of records from SIS in pdf (printscreen) to Jiri Novak (novakji@fsv.cuni.cz) by 12 October 2010, 12:00. Applicants should be aware that a successful participation is time consuming. In the motivation letter applicants should specify their time constraints and how much time they are ready to invest in the competition. Selection of team members will be based on the competence, motivation and commitment of the individual applicants.

THE US INCENTIVE AUCTIONS

05/10/2012   |   Ing. Šárka Bokočová

CERGE-EI invites you cordially to a public lecture "THE US INCENTIVE AUCTIONS"
by Prof. Paul Milgrom from the Stanford University. The lecture takes place on Thursday,
October 11, at 4:30 pm at CERGE-EI, room #7. Number of seats is limited. To attend the
lecture, please send your request to: rsvp@cerge-ei.cz not later than October 10.
For online streaming go to www.cerge-ei.cz. More details can be found here.

Office Hours of doc. Cahlik Cancelled

04/10/2012   |   doc.Ing. Tomáš Cahlík CSc.

From October 8 to November 9 - foreign trip. Mail works in a standard way.

Stanford University is opening a free online course in Finance (with Kay Giesecke)

02/10/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

starting October 15th. This class introduces the basic concepts of modern finance and their practical application. Learn about financial markets and securities, how to rank investment alternatives, use different interest rates, immunize a bond portfolio, measure financial risk, and structure a stock portfolio optimally. Apply your learning in a project involving actual security market data. Subject to satisfactory performance and course completion, you will receive a statement of accomplishment signed by the instructor. This statement will not stand in the place of a course taken at Stanford or an accredited institution.

The first ELBF research seminar - on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 18:30 in room 601

29/09/2012   |   Petr Janský M.Sc.

The first ELBF research seminar of this semester will take place this Tuesday, October 2nd. Barbora Svárovská will present her research. The seminar starts at 18.30 in room 601. All Ph.D. and other interested students and faculty are welcome.

2012 IES Economic Meeting took place on 21 September

27/09/2012   |   Ing. Eva Svitáková

The main topic of 2012 IES Economic Meeting was the financial stability issues in Central and Eastern Europe. A keynote speech was delivered by prof. Iftekhar Hasan from the Fordham University who presented key findings of his latest research. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Economic Systems journal.

Lecture by Richard Frensch on Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe

27/09/2012   |   doc. Roman Horváth Ph.D., ČSOB Corporate Chair

 We invite all faculty members and students for a lecture by professor Richard Frensch (IOS, Regensburg) on incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe. Professor Frensch is an expert on international trade and previously advised goverments in the Czech Republic and Ukraine and worked for the United Nations. The lecture will be held in the room 105, Tuesday October 2, starting from 3.30PM.

The 7th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society

24/09/2012   |   doc. Roman Horváth Ph.D., ČSOB Corporate Chair

The 7th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society will take place on 24 November 2012 at Vysoka skola ekonomicka, Prague, Czech Republic. Submissions of completed papers in English are welcomed by 30 September 2012. The submissions should be sent to conference2012@cse.cz together with the application to the conference, downloadable from http://www.cse.cz/en/activities/biennial-conferences/. There is participation fee only for non-members. All faculty and doctoral students are encouraged to apply.

Workshop on Programming in z-Tree for Experimental Research

21/09/2012   |   Michal Bauer Ph.D., Renomia Chair

Laboratory of experimental economics (LEE) in cooperation with IES and CERGE-EI opens a compact workshop about Programming in z-Tree for Experimetnal Research. The visiting lecturer is Maria Bigoni from the University of Bologna. The workshop with take place from Nov 15th to Nov 19th 2012 at LEE premises. The course aims to help students who think about implementing an economic experiment and want to learn how to program it. More information is here.

Challenges to Financial Stability in Central and Eastern Europe - Conference at IES

20/09/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

We cordially invite you to the IES Economic Meeting to be held on September 21, room 206. This year topic is Challenges to Financial Stability in Central and Eastern Europe. The final programme of workshop is available at the workshop website. It is great opportunity to be exposed to the current research on financial stability by leading experts from various central banks, universities or international organizations. If you wish to attend, register by sending an e-mail to Roman Horvath (the number of places is limited by the size of room 206).

"Subject registration already began"

19/09/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

Registration for winter semester subjects began from Sept 19, 2012 10h . The first five days students of Faculty of Social Science have preference.
Petr Soukup

1-day compact course on 26 September 2012 - Traditional and Alternative Risk Transfer in The Insurance Sector (3 credits)

18/09/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

On 26 September 2012 a 1-day compact course Traditional and Alternative Risk Transfer in The Insurance Sector will take place in Room No. 206. The course will be taught by Prof. Maurizio Pompella and is primarily intended for 2nd- and 3rd-year bachelor students as well as for master students. For more details see a course syllabus.

The World Bank offers internships

12/09/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

to young people interested to learn more about the economic and social issues that affect people's lives around the world. The programme offers opportunities for study and work that provide hands-on experience. The Bank Internship Programme offers graduate students an opportunity to improve their skills as well as the experience of working in an international environment, detailes here.

Compact course - History of Economic Thought

07/09/2012   |   PhDr. Ing. Jiří Skuhrovec

On 25th September begins innovated compact course of History of Economic Thought, led by prof. Julius Horvath, PhD. Course is primarily for bachelor students, but can be also visited by master level students. For more details visit course syllabus.

Information for students of bachelor programs

05/09/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

 In the summer semester of AY 2012/2013 subject JEB075 Development Economics will not be taught.

RENOMIA award in development economics

05/09/2012   |   Julie Chytilová Ph.D., Renomia Chair

Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague in collaboration with RENOMIA, a. s. announces second edition of a competition for the best student work on the topic related to economic development, poverty or inequality. The winning work will receive a RENOMIA Award of CZK 30 000. More details about the competition can be downloaded here, the application form here.

Roman Horvath receives a Best Referee Award

04/09/2012   |   PhDr. Martin Gregor Ph.D.

Associate Professor Roman Horvath has been selected as the best referee for the manuscripts reviewed for Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies in the year 2012. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies is Scopus-indexed journal published by Taylor and Francis. The results of the annual award will be announced in 5(2) issue of the journal. Congratulations!

Bachelor´s State Exam on Sept 10 and 12, 2012 and Master´s State Exam on Sept 13, 2012

31/08/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

Time Schedule and Comissions of Bachelor´s and Master´s State Exam are enclosed.

A new issue (4/12) of the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance

29/08/2012   |   Ing. Šárka Bokočová

 A new issue (4/12) of the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance has been released and brings the following papers (http://journal.fsv.cuni.cz/mag/issue/current/ :
 Foreign Ownership and Corporate Performance: The Czech Republic at EU Entry 
Štěpán JURAJDA, Juraj STANČÍK
 How to Improve the Quality of Stress Tests through Backtesting    
Adam GERŠL, Jakub SEIDLER
Financial Development and Economic Growth in Poland in Transition: Causality Analysis   
Henryk GURGUL, Lukasz LACH
The Dynamics of Return Comovement and Spillovers Between the Czech and European Stock Markets in the Period 1997–2010   
Silvo DAJCMAN

The student orientation course E-GO 2012

16/08/2012   |   Ing. Šárka Bokočová

E-Club invites all future students of IES to The student orientation course E-GO 2012 term from 27th till 30th of September 2012. See more information.

CS competition - Masters

07/08/2012   |   PhDr. Pavel Vacek Ph.D., Česká spořitelna Corporate Chair

Mgr. Blanka Weyskrabová won the 1st prize in the competiton of Česká spořitelna for the best master thesis defended in summer 2012. Mgr. Radek Janhuba won the 2nd prize.  Eleven theses were submitted into competition. Congratulations to winners and thank you to all participants for their great representation of the IES.

CS competition - Bachelors

07/08/2012   |   PhDr. Pavel Vacek Ph.D., Česká spořitelna Corporate Chair

Bc. Jana Malíčková won the 1st prize in the competiton of Česká spořitelna for the best bachelor thesis defended in summer 2012. Bc. Pavel Dvořák won the 2nd place. There were 16 theses submitted into competition. Congratulations to winners and thank you to all for great representation of the IES.

Master Thesis Proposals

19/07/2012   |   PhDr. Tomáš Havránek

Dear first-year MA students, please send us your master thesis proposals (by e-mail to mejstrik@fsv.cuni.cz , tomas.havranek@ies-prague.org and zuzana.irsova@ies-prague.org) till July 22, 2012. Detailed instructions are provided on the website of the master thesis seminar (http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/syllab/JEM001/).

Job Shadowing - Česká spořitelna

16/07/2012   |   PhDr. Pavel Vacek Ph.D., Česká spořitelna Corporate Chair

Česká spořitelna offers  to shadow director of IT, Mr. Petr Beneš (on July 31, August 1 or August 2)  and director of marketing, Mr. František Coufal (on August 9). Two students will be selected to IT and one to marketing. Send your CV and motivation letter to: vacek@fsv.cuni.cz by July 23 (included).

2012 Competition of the Czech Econometrics Society

16/07/2012   |   PhDr. Martin Gregor Ph.D.

The Czech Econometrics Society has announced results of the 2012 competition of the Best Paper in Economic Theory and Econometrics. Three out of five awarded students come from the IES. Radovan Parrák scored 3rd place with paper The economic valuation of variance forecasts: an artificial option market approach. Two special prizes go to Pavel Dvořák for his paper Ising model in finance: New features and Hana Hejlová for her paper Efficiency of regulation on Spanish housing market. Congratulations!

The Czech Economic Review, Vol. 6, No. 2

13/07/2012   |   PhDr. Lenka Šťastná Ph.D.

A new issue of the Czech Economic Review is just coming out. See table of contents:

• Negotiating the Lisbon Treaty: Redistribution, Efficiency and Power Indices
  D. Varela, J. Prado-Dominquez
• Role of Political Affiliation across the European Institutions in the Dynamics of the EU Legislative Process
  R. Hokovsky, V. Knutelska
• Analysis of Regional Aspects of Voting Behaviour: The Case of Polish Presidential Election
  M. Mazurkiewicz
• Augmented Solow Model with Mincerian Education and Transport Infrastructure Externalities
  T. Brodzicki

Quantitative Risk Model Developer at KBC Group (Junior)

12/07/2012   |   Ing. Šárka Bokočová

KBC group is an international bank assurer with activities in Western (KBC Belgium, KBC Ireland, ...), Central (ČSOB Czech Rep., ČSOB Slovakia, K&H Hungary, ...) and Eastern Europe (Absolut bank). 

The central European hub of our  risk modelling department is offering a full-time (junior) position oriented on credit and ALM (i.e. market) risk modelling. For more information click here above.

Results of Course Evaluation WS 2011/12

02/07/2012   |   Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová

are available here: http://hodnocenikurzu.fsv.cuni.cz/. Thanks to all students and teachers for their cooperation. Still missing some courses of the Department of Media Studies and Marketing & PR, which will be completed during July.
Petr Soukup, Dean for Student Affairs