IES :: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek Ph.D.

Institute of Economic Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek Ph.D.

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Position: Associate Professor
Field of interest: Macroeconomics, International Trade, Monetary Policy, Meta-Analysis
Membership: Internal, Macroeconomics and Econometrics

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: Tuesday, 4.30pm, MS Teams. Always contact me in advance.

JEB004 - Ekonomie II
JEM222 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF I
JEM223 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF II
JEM225 - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM213 (JEM001) - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM226 - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JEM214 (JEM002) - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II

Job history

2016+ Associate Professor, Charles University, Prague
2016-2019 Advisor to the Vice-Governor, Czech National Bank
2014 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
2009-2015 Economist, Research Department, Czech National Bank

Extra activities

I have reviewed or edited more than 200 manuscripts for journals including Science, Nature, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Frontiers in Psychology (my reviewer profile). In 2020 I served in the economics and finance panel of ERC Advanced. I chair the economics panel of the Grant Agency of Charles University, am a member of the University's Grant Council, and serve as Associate Editor responsible for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys. I am also a Research Affiliate at CEPR.

Data and codes for meta-analysis
Publications in Scopus
Publications in RePEc
Citations in Google Scholar
Op-eds (in Czech)

Selected publications: JEEA, JIE (3x), RED (2x), IMF Economic Review, Experimental Economics, EER (2x), JMCB.
I am married to the economist Zuzana Iršová Havránková and we 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 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)

Monetary policy activism (in Czech for the specific Czech case with links to op-eds), refresh the page if the embedded pdf below fails to load; pokud se prvek níže nezobrazuje, obnovte stránku:

Video explaining the pdf above (in Czech, video vysvětlující plakát výše, pokračování zde)

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

If you are interested in meta-analysis, please first look at my recent papers on the topic:

Zigraiova Diana, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, & Jiri Novak (2021), "How Puzzling Is the Forward Premium Puzzle? A Meta-Analysis." European Economic Review 134, 103714.
Matousek Jindrich, Tomas Havranek, & Zuzana Irsova (2021), "Individual Discount Rates: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Evidence." Experimental Economics, forthcoming.
Gechert Sebastian, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, & Dominika Kolcunova (2021), "Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias." Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming

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