Position: Adjunct Lecturer
Field of interest: Economic Modelling, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Membership: External, Former PhD students, Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Contact
Office:
Email: jan [DOT] zacek [AT] fsv [DOT] cuni [DOT] cz
Phone:
Personal web pages: https://www.cnb.cz/en/economic-research/research-economists/Jan-Zacek/
Available: as agreed individually
More information
Syllabi
Course supervisor
JEM184 - New Keynesian DSGE Modelling
Teacher
JEM184 - New Keynesian DSGE Modelling
CV
Organisation Memberships
Česká společnost ekonomická
Education
08/2018 – 11/2018: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University in the City of New York (USA)
10/2016 – 09/2021: Ph.D. in Economics, IES FSV UK
10/2014 – 06/2016: Mgr. (MSc. equivalent) in Economics, IES FSV UK
10/2011 – 06/2014: Bc. (BSc. equivalent) in Economics, IES FSV UK
Job history
Czech National Bank, Macroeconomic Forecasting Division
12/2018 – present: Economist
Charles University, Institute of Economic Studies
10/2021 – present: Adjunct Lecturer
10/2019 – 09/2021: Lecturer
10/2016 – 09/2020: Junior Researcher and Member of the Centre for Doctoral Studies
02/2015 – 06/2019: Teaching Assistant
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation
10/2021 – present: Postdoctoral Fellow
01/2020 – 09/2021: Junior Researcher
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, EU Economic Policy Division
12/2016 – 11/2018: Expert Analyst
Teaching
2019 – present: JEM184 New Keynesian DSGE Modelling
2018: JEM027 Monetary Economics (seminar)
2017 – 2020: JEM111 International Macroeconomics (seminar)
2016 – 2017: JEM004 Advanced Macroeconomics (seminar)
2015 – 2016: JSB017 Statistics I (seminar)
2014 – 2016: JSB035 Introduction to Logic and Mathematics (seminar)
Researcher's identification
ORCID, RePEc, Scopus Author ID, Publons with WoS RID
Extra activities
Refereeing: International Journal of Finance and Economics, Prague Economic Papers
Awards and prizes
02/2021: Economic Research Award by the Czech National Bank
12/2018: Young Economist of the Year Award of the Czech Economic Society (2nd place)
11/2016: Karel Engliš Prize of the Czech Economic Society
Topics for supervision
Bachelor theses
See topics for Master theses.
Master theses
Topics in macroeconomics and monetary economics investigated by semi-structural or DSGE models (for example, research questions focused on inflation targeting or forecasting). Students are welcome to specify the topic on their own. Only theses written in English and LaTeX are to be supervised.
