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The IES Director's Award for Distinguished Master’s and Bachelor’s Theses has been awarded since the beginning of 2024 at the occasion of each Bachelor's and Master's Final State Exams. These are organized as a thesis defense with a follow-up general discussion on the thesis topic and are held three times a year - usually in January, June and September.
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Our scientific journal, the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (formerly Finance a úvěr), is moving to its new chapter. Simona Malovaná has been appointed the new Managing Editor. She is affiliated with the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and also serves as the Director of Research and Statistics Department at the Czech National Bank. She will be joined by Jiří Kukačka from the Institute of Economic Studies and Martin Hodula from the Czech National Bank as co-editors.
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Submit your thesis to the competition for Josef Vavroušek Student Award which recognizes outstanding works of a social science or interdisciplinary nature with a social science overlap, following the legacy of Josef Vavroušek as a personality who advocated sustainable development as a harmonious coexistence of people, society and nature with an emphasis on responsibility towards future generations. Application deadline is 24 July 2026.
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We ask students to fill in the teaching evaluation for the summer semester 2025/2026. By filling out the questionnaire, you are helping to improve the quality of teaching. The questionnaire is available at the web address https://hodnoceni.fsv.cuni.cz/ after logging in via CAS. The evaluation questionnaire is available until 28 June 2026.
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During the summer, individual libraries and other faculty services will operate on a reduced schedule.
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We would like to invite you to a research seminar by Yen-Cheng Chang, Professor of Finance at National Taiwan University. Yen-Cheng Chang will present his paper called When Bad News Travels Faster: Evidence from Disclosure Integration and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift. The seminar will take place on *Thursday*, June 11, 2026, in Room 206 at 13:00.
