Aktuality

An article “Remittances and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis”, written by our colleagues Alina Cazachevici, Tomáš Havránek and Roman Horváth, was published this October in a prestigious monthly journal World Development. This journal focuses on improving standards of living, and examining potential solutions to problems such as poverty, unemployment, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, discrimination, or lack of popular participation in economic and political life.

The World Tax Summit - TaxCOOP2020 will take place online from October 13 to 15, 2020.

It is one of the key international rendezvous for actors in the realm of taxation, and despite the unfavourable epidemiological situation, more than 1,800 participants are already registered for the online event.

Tax havens, environmental taxation, a minimum worldwide tax, taxation of transnationals and SMEs, questions related to developing countries, the digital economy and other themes will be addressed by some 100 speakers, including politicians, NGO spokespersons, corporate CEOs and researchers, as well as the representatives of the UN, the OECD and the IMF.

Our student Jan Liehman has received the 2019 Roger Noll Prize for his undergraduate thesis in sports economics. The purpose of the Noll Prize is to recognize and encourage empirical undergraduate scholarship in sports economics.

The winning thesis Do National Hockey League Players Perform Better During Their Contract Years? was supervised by our colleague Matěj Opatrný.

In 2018, the winner of the prize was our student Jakub Linhart. His thesis US Collegiate Football Analysis: Team’s Success as an Indicator of Academic Performance was completed under supervision of dr. Radek Janhuba.

On Tuesday, February 6th, the Charles University team, formed by the students of the Institute of Economic Studies FSV UK, won the Local Round of the prestigious CFA Research Challenge, an annual global student competition organized by the CFA Institute.
The winning team - Tadeáš Krejčí, Michal Petrouš, Jakub Říha, Ira Saktor and Norbert Skákala – won in the competition among ten other teams from the Czech Republic and Slovakia and will represent these countries in the Regional Final in Dublin on April 4th – 5th. The Global Final will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 27th 2018.