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The World Bank has published Raising Revenue Right: A Roadmap for Domestic Resource Mobilization, its first Policy Research Report devoted to taxation. Notably, the report draws on ten papers authored or co-authored by economists from IES FSV UK and the Centre for Public Finance.
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We would like to invite you to a research seminar by Michael Rose, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Michael Rose will present his paper called Better Science as a Byproduct: The Institutional Revolution in the German Empire. The seminar will také place on *Wednesday*, October 21, 2026, in Room 206 at 12:30.
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At its meeting on September 15, 2026, AS FSV UK announced—pursuant to Article 1 of the AS FSV UK Election Rules —that electronic elections for the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, for the 2027–2029 term would be held from November 24 to 26, 2026.
AS FSV UK has set the period for submitting nominations for candidates to AS FSV UK from 9:00 a.m. on October 7, 2026, through 5:00 p.m. on November 13, 2026.
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This year's Prize in Economic Sciences goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford. In its scientific background to the prize, the Nobel Committee discusses, in the section on Hall's theory of consumption, the meta-analysis by Professor Tomas Havranek (IES FSV UK) and Associate Professor Anna Sokolova (University of Nevada, Reno) of the marginal propensity to consume, the share of extra income that households spend.
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The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute organizes an international student competition in company valuation. Teams of 3-5 students are assigned a mentor, a CFA charter-holder with extensive business experience. Winners proceed to the European and global rounds. Come learn more on October 13 and apply by October 22, 2026.
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The prestigious journal International Review of Financial Analysis published an article Determinants of wash trading in major cryptoexchanges authored by our colleagues Jan Šíla, Evžen Kočenda, Ladislav Krištoufek and Jiří Kukačka.
