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
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
04/2022 – present: Senior Economist
02/2022 – 01/2023: Head of CNB's Forecasting Team
12/2018 – 03/2022: 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 – 12/2022: 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.
I strongly encourage you to write your thesis in English.
