Position: Associate Professor
Field of interest: International Trade, Monetary Policy, Meta-Analysis
Membership: Internal, Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Contact
Office: typically 314
Email: tomas [DOT] havranek [AT] ies-prague [DOT] org
Phone: Please contact me by e-mail
Personal web pages: http://meta-analysis.cz
Available: Wednesday, 4.40pm, room 314. Always contact me in advance, I'll be abroad a few weeks during the semester.
More information
Syllabi
Course supervisor
JEB004 - Ekonomie II
JEM169 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF I
JEM170 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF II
JEM001 - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM002 - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II
Teacher
JEB004 - Ekonomie II
JEM169 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF I
JEM170 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF II
JEM001 - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM002 - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II
CV
Job history
2016+ Associate Professor, Charles University, Prague
2016-2019 Advisor to the Board, Czech National Bank
2014 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
2009-2015 Economist, Research Department, Czech National Bank
Extra activities
I have reviewed more than 140 manuscripts for journals including Nature, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (my reviewer profile). I also chair the economics panel of the Grant Agency of Charles University and serve as an Associate Editor responsible for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys.
Data and codes for meta-analysis
Publications in Scopus
Publications in RePEc
Citations in Google Scholar
Selected publications: JEEA, JIE (2x), RED, IMF Economic Review, EER, JMCB.
I am married and have four children: Kristína (2011), Daniel (2013), Filip (2015), and Lucie (2017).
My video blog at the Czech National Bank's website (in Czech with English subtitles).
Awards and prizes
According to RePEc I am currently the most cited Czech economist. I also rank globally among the 150 most influential economists and the top economists in my cohort.
- Excellent Reviewer Award (2018, 2017, 2016) in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance by Publons
- Best PhD Thesis Award 2014 by the UniCredit & Universities Foundation (best dissertation in economics and finance in the 17 countries where UniCredit operates)
- Economic Research Award (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012) by the Czech National Bank
- Young Economist Award, first prize (2012) by the Czech Economic Society
- Medal on Research and Development, first prize (2010) by the Global Development Network, World Bank
- Olga Radzyner Award (2009) by the Austrian National Bank (best scientific work on European integration)
- Karel Englis Prize (2009) by Charles University (best alumnus in social sciences)
- Bolzano Prize (2007) by Charles University (best student work in economics)
Topics for supervision
Bachelor theses
Please write your thesis in English and use LaTeX. For current topics see the Student Information System, but I also welcome your own topics in meta-analysis (especially publication bias), international economics (trade and FDI), monetary economics (transmission of monetary policy shocks), and energy economics (demand for energy and issues related to social cost of carbon). Send me your grade point average from bachelor studies.
Master theses
Please write your thesis in English and use LaTeX. For current topics see the Student Information System, but I also welcome your own topics in meta-analysis (especially publication bias), international economics (trade and FDI), monetary economics (transmission of monetary policy shocks), and energy economics (demand for energy and issues related to social cost of carbon). Send me your grade point average from bachelor and master studies.
If you are interested in meta-analysis, please first look at my papers on the topic:
- Havranek Tomas & Zuzana Irsova (2017), "Do Borders Really Slash Trade? A Meta-Analysis." IMF Economic Review 65(2), 365-396.
- Havranek Tomas & Anna Sokolova (2020), "Do Consumers Really Follow a Rule of Thumb? Three Thousand Estimates from 144 Studies Say 'Probably Not'." Review of Economic Dynamics 35(1), 97-122.
- Havranek Tomas, Marek Rusnak, & Anna Sokolova (2017), "Habit Formation in Consumption: A Meta-Analysis." European Economic Review 95(1), 142-167.
Supervised Bachelor theses
all/awarded: 19/6
Awarded:
Bc. Dominika Rečková, Bc. Eliška Slouková, Bc. Jana Sedlaříková, Bc. Marek Hauzr, Bc. Petr Polák, Bc. Vojtěch Molnár
Supervised Master Theses
all/awarded: 19/0
Awarded:
Current Ph.D. students
number: 10
Mgr. Josef Bajzík , Mgr. Ing. Kseniya Bortnikova , Mgr. Dominika Ehrenbergerová (Kolcunová) , Mohammad Ali Elminejad , Mgr. Milan Frydrych , Mgr. Jindřich Matoušek , Matěj Opatrný MSc., Mgr. Petr Polák MSc., Mgr. Nikol Poláková , Mgr. Dominika Špolcová
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