Aktuality

  • Julie Chytilová and Michal Bauer received the Bedřich Hrozný Prize

    On Wednesday, April 5, a festive meeting commemorating the 675th anniversary of the founding of Charles University took place in the historic Carolinum building. On the occasion, Julie Chytilová and Michal Bauer received the Bedřich Hrozný Prize for Creative Initiative, for the publication of their study on the refusal of vaccination in the prestigious journal Nature:
  • Julie Chytilová a Michal Bauer received the Bedřich Hrozný prize

    On Wednesday, April 5, a festive meeting commemorating the 675th anniversary of the founding of Charles University took place in the historic Carolinum building. On the occasion, Julie Chytilová and Michal Bauer received the Bedřich Hrozný Prize for Creative Initiative, for the publication of their study on the refusal of vaccination in the prestigious journal Nature.
  • How financial incentives affect performance - research by the IES team at Vox.EU

    Economists tend to assume that monetary rewards make people try harder, but many psychologists argue that the opposite can be true:
  • Congratulations to UNCE Doctoral Fellows

    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 Buliskeria Evgeniya Dubinina Ali Elminejad Marek Šedivý Lenka Šlegerová
  • Zuzana Havránková has received the prestigious JUNIOR STAR grant

    Congratulations to our colleague Zuzana Havránková on receiving the prestigious JUNIOR STAR grant! The Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) has decided to support her project "Spurious Precision in Meta-Analysis of Social Science Research (METASPUR)", which will focus on the development of new meta-analysis techniques that can be used in social sciences. In particular, it will concern cases when published measures of precision are not reliable.
  • JEM230 Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance (Claudia Curi, Free University of Bolzano)

    Do you want to learn how companies raise debt? Did you ever wonder how the corporate credit risk is identified and managed? Attend a special 3-day course JEM230 Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance offered Sep 26-30, 2022, taught by Claudia Curi from Free University of Bolzano.