IES Director presented the Awards for Distinguished Master’s and Bachelor’s Theses in September 2024

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. 

Apart from the IES Director, the Directors of the Master’s and Bachelor’s Study Programs and the members of the State Final Exam committees jointly assess the exceptional quality of the theses and the excellent performance at the thesis defense. 

For those receiving the IES Director's Award, this is a sign that their thesis was among the best defended at IES in a given round. It is also a signal that it is advisable to submit it to various student competitions (e.g. Bolzano Award, etc.) or that there is a high chance that the work will be nominated directly by the IES for other student prizes (e.g. DOT Award or Prof. JUDr. Karel Engliš Award) 

The award is presented in a symbolic and ecological way in the form of a certificate in an electronic version, which the awardees can further use e.g. on their LinkedIn profile or attach to their applications for universities abroad or job interviews. There is no financial reward associated with the award.

In September, the IES Director's Award was presented to the following graduates:  

Bachelor’s theses:

• Impact of government subsidies on the quantity and quality of movie production
  author: Bc. Nikola  Bošković
  advisor: Matěj Bajgar, D.Phil.
   
• The effect of SSRIs on the severity of COVID-19
  author: Bc. Anna Marie Břicháčková
  advisor: PhDr. Mgr. Jana Votápková, Ph.D.
   
• The Impact of Insider Ownership on the Efficiency of Capital Allocation
  author: Bc. Tomáš Burian
  advisor: doc. PhDr. Jozef Baruník, Ph.D.
   
• The Effects of Quantitative Easing: A Meta-Analysis
  author: Bc. Matyáš Horák
  advisor: prof. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek, Ph.D.
   
• Language Skills and Employability: The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic
  author: Bc. Daniela Javůrková
  advisor: Mgr. Barbara Pertold-Gebicka. M.A., Ph.D.
   
• Price elasticities of meat, fish and seafood: A meta-analysis
  author: Bc. Kateřina Kozlíková
  advisor: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D.
   
• Volatility spillovers between Cocoa Futures markets and selected currency pairs
  author: Bc. Matyáš Švehla
  advisor: PhDr. František Čech, Ph.D.

Master’s theses:

• The Impact of Stablecoin Depegging on Bitcoin's Volatility
  author: Mgr. Jan Bartůněk
  advisor: prof. PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek. Ph.D.
   
• Analysis of Prediction Markets in Crypto: Investigating Convergence in Time, Volatility, and Biases in Polymarket
  author: Mgr. Pavel Řežábek
  advisor: prof. PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek. Ph.D.
   
• Disagreement about Expected Inflation and the Transmission of Monetary Policy in the Czech Republic
  author: Mgr. Tereza Veselá
  advisor: PhDr. Jaromír Baxa, Ph.D.

The theses will be available during October 2024 in the electronic thesis repository at Charles University at https://dspace.cuni.cz/.

We would like to congratulate all the awarded students and wish them many more successes in their professional or academic life!