Institute of Economic Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University

Jan Šomvársky was Alumnus of the Month in May. Jan studied Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management and then founded the start-up Vitadio. An interview with Jan you can read...

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute altered the application deadline for the Awareness Scholarships granted to students interested in taking the CFA exams. The new application deadline is on  June 22, 2021 . The scholarship reduces the CFA...

In the article "Will poorer countries benefit from international tax reform?" , which discusses the broader context of the international tax reform and what makes it so complicated for the 139 countries in the forum led by OECD to reach a consensus, the...

We congratulate the following 5 doctoral candidates for receiving research fellowship from the  Center for Advanced Economic Studies  (HUM/035, a project of excellent research at Charles University, organized jointly by IES and CERGE): Nino...

The article " Measuring capital-labor substitution: The importance of method choices and publication bias "  by Tomáš Havránek , Zuzana Havránková and Dominika Ehrenbergerová from IES and Sebastian Gechert from IMK Düsseldorf was...

If you want to defend your thesis at the end of the Summer Semester 2021/2022, the topic of your thesis must be confirmed by your supervisor in the Student Information System by June 30, 2021. Use the " Thesis  (Selection of subject ) " module in SIS to...

We are pleased to announce that our colleague and CEPR member, Tomáš Havránek , was appointed to the Evaluation Panel for the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants in 2020, becoming the first Czech representative in the field of...

The  EU Tax Observatory , an independent research laboratory hosted by the Paris School of Economics and supported by the European Commission, has been launched on June 1, 2021, with Sarah Godar, Petr Janský and Miroslav Palanský from IES as...

The list of internship possibilities for our students was updated. Please see the details  here.

For the time being, the IES building in Opletalova remains open every working day (Mon - Fri) from 8 am to 6 pm. We kindly ask all teachers to schedule any consultations or exams with students in accordance with these opening hours.  Our library is...