Position: Professor, Head of Department of Microeconomics 
Field of interest: Microeconomics of Banking, Resource Economics
Membership: Internal, Microeconomics and Mathematical Methods
Contact
Office: 408
Email: Karel-Janda [AT] seznam [DOT] cz
Phone: +420 222 112 316
Available: Monday 9:30-10:50, 12:30-13:10 room 408, Opletalova 26; Wednesday 12:45-14:45 room 182NB, W. Churchilla Square 4. No office hours on: February 22, March 22, During May 2023-September 2024 I will be at UC Berkeley.
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Syllabi
Course supervisor
JED209 - Applied Banking and Finance I
JED210 - Applied Banking and Finance II
JEM013 - Game Theory
JEM185 - Microeconomics of Banking
Teacher
JEM215 - Advanced Microeconomics
JEM013 - Game Theory
JEM185 - Microeconomics of Banking
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Organisation Memberships
Econometric Society, European Association of Agricultural Economists, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, European Economic Association, Czech Econometric Society, Czech Economic Society
Education
2001-2003 Ph.D Economics, University of Iowa
1998-2001 M.A. Economics, University of Iowa
1992-1996 Dr. Economics, CERGE, Charles University
1984-1988 Ing. Business, University of Economics, Prague
1980-1984 Mathematics and Physics, Gymnazium J.K.Tyla Hradec Kralove
Job history
Teaching:
1993 CERGE UK Industrial Organization I
1995 CERGE UK Mathematical Statistics
1996 CERGE UK Intermediate Microeconomics
1997 IES FSV UK Industrial Organization
1997 CERGE UK Intermediate Microeconomics
1997 CERGE UK Econometrics II
1998 CERGE UK Industrial Organization II
1998 CERGE UK Intermediate Microeconomics
1999 U of Iowa Statistics for Strategy Problems
1999 CERGE UK Mathematics for Economists
2000 U of Iowa Statistics for Strategy Problems
2000 CERGE UK Microeconomics I
2000 CERGE UK Microeconomics III
2001 U of Iowa Statistics for Strategy Problems
2002 U of Iowa Statistics for Strategy Problems
2003 U of Iowa Statistics for Strategy Problems
2003 UEP Money, Banking and Financial Markets
2003 UEP Banking Seminar
2003 IES FSV UK Advanced Microeconomics 1
2003 IES FSV UK Economics of Incentives and Contracts
2003 IES FSV UK Microeconomics Supervisions for Ph. D. Students
2004 UEP Banking Seminar
2004 UEP Money, Banking and Financial Markets
2004 UEP Microeconomics of Banking
2004 UEP Financial Contracting
2004 UEP International Investments
2004 IES FSV UK Advanced Microeconomics 1, 2
2004 IES FSV UK Economics of Incentives and Contracts
2004 IES FSV UK Microeconomics of Banking
2004 IES FSV UK Microeconomics Supervision for Ph.D. Students
2004 IES FSV UK Economics and Law in Banking and Finance
2005 UEP Banking Seminar
2005 UEP Money, Banking and Financial Markets
2005 UEP Microeconomics of Banking
2005 UEP Financial Contracting
2005 UEP Asset Management
2005 IES FSV UK Advanced Microeconomics 1, 2
2005 IES FSV UK Economics of Incentives and Contracts
2005 IES FSV UK Microeconomics of Banking
2005 IES FSV UK Economics and Law in Banking and Finance
2006 UEP Banking Seminar
2006 UEP Financial Theory, Policies, and Institutions
2006 UEP Money, Banking and Financial Markets
2006 UEP Microeconomics of Banking
2006 UEP Financial Contracting
2006 UEP Asset Management
2006 IES FSV UK Advanced Microeconomics 1, 2
2006 IES FSV UK Economics of Incentives and Contracts
2006 IES FSV UK Microeconomics of Banking
2006 IES FSV UK Economics and Law in Banking and Finance
2006 CERGE UK Microeconomics II
2007 UEP Banking Seminar
2007 UEP Money, Banking and Financial Markets
2007 UEP Microeconomics of Banking
2007 UEP Financial Contracting
2007 IES FSV UK Advanced Microeconomics 1, 2
2007 IES FSV UK Economics of Incentives and Contracts
2007 IES FSV UK Microeconomics of Banking
2007 IES FSV UK Economics and Law in Banking and Finance
Extra activities
2009 + Member of central scientific working group for research in agricultural economics at
Czech Ministry of Agriculture
2009 + Member of Center for Basic Research in Dynamic Economics and Econometrics, Prague
2009 + Member of field committee of the Ph.D. study programme in economic theory at
CERGE
2009 + Co-Editor of Politicka Ekonomie
2008 + Member of the editorial board of Open Economics Journal
2007 + Member of the editorial board of The Open Bussiness Journal
2006 + Member of Grant Committee of the Czech Science Foundation
2006 + Member of Committee of Grant Agency of Charles University, chairman of economics subsection 2007- present, member of governing board 2008- present
2006 + Chairman of the field committee of the Ph.D. study programme in economic theory at Charles University
2005 + Member of the editorial board of Prague Social Sciences Studies
2004 + Member of Scientific Council of Transition Studies Review
2004 + Member of the editorial board of the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance
2003 + Member of the field committee of the Ph.D. study programme in economic theory at Charles University
1998 - 2000 Member of Grant Committee of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Referee for:
SIAM Journal on Optimization,
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development,
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
Journal of Economics,
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
Open Business Journal,
Open Economics Journal,
Czech Economic Review,
Bulletin of The Czech Econometric Society
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia,
Czech Journal of Economics and Finance,
Politicka Ekonomie,
Oeconomica,
Matfyzpress,
Czech National Bank,
Czech Science Foundation,
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic,
Grant Agency of Czech Ministry of Education,
Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
Czech National Grant Agency for Agricultural Sciences,
Slovak Research and Development Agency,
European Association of Agricultural Economists,
Global Development Network,
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium,
Research Directorate of European
Commission.
Topics for supervision
Bachelor theses
(I supervise only theses written in English)
Bankruptcy
Soft budget constraint.
The economic analysis of Czech Fund PGRLF (=Podpůrný a garanční rolnický a lesnický fond).
Export credit support (for example Czech institutions EGAP, CEB).
The economic analysis of alcoholic beverages and tobacco industries.
Economics of biofuels.
Economics of genetically modified biofuels in Eastern Europe [This topic does not require any theory or exceptional smartness. It requires primarily dilligence and hard, but simple, work with assembling data about agricultural crops used for biofuels in East European countries. And some basic economic intuition in drawing conclusions from the data and extrapolating the data. And some interest in understanding the simple basics of biofuels crops agronomy and economics. This could be easily two or three thesis, each one concentrating on different group of countries. Knowledge of Eastern European languages (Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian atc.) may be an advantage, but it is not required since the majority of good data sources is likely to be in English anyway.]
Economics of solar energy and other topics related to energy security.
Regulation of OTC derivatives.
Merit order price effect for renewable energy sources
Green financing in Czech banks
Green financing in Slovak banks
Green financing in European banks
Climate-related risk and financial stability
Green bonds
Green shares
Financing Green Deal – descriptive analysis of available public and private financial sources for supporting EU Green Deal . Creating explicit list of public and private sources of subsidies, loans, credits. The analysis will identify areas which may be supported by subsidies and areas which may be supported by commercial (bank) financing (bank credit, guarantees, but also equity provision). The analysis will be based on statistical data, annual financial reports of banks and other financial and supporting institutions.
Modelling of financial impacts of Green Deal
Pricing green house gases - using financial engineering tools for pricing of green house gases and related financial instruments
Environmental taxes and subsidies
Influence of Green Deal on investment and financing decisions of private firms – use of different types of investment decisions under the Green Deal conditions or evaluation of different real-life investment projects from the point of view of the question How Green Deal conditions (for example ETS trading) influence investment decisions of private firms?
Financing green projects
Pricing of EU ETS (Emission Trading System)
Financing biodiversity
Financing climate change adaptation
Financing climate change mitigation
Financing sustainable agriculture
Insurance and climate change
Environmentally harmful finances
Master theses
(I supervise only theses written in English)
Optimal Debt Contracts
Asymmetric Information Approach to Credit Derivatives
Game Theory Analysis of Options
Bankruptcy
Soft budget constraint.
Consumer demand systems: microeconomic theory and empirical econometric application.
Beer - a production analysis of production and profitability of beverage industry with emphasize on beer: microeconomic theory and econometric application.
Intra-industry trade: theory and empirical econometric applications.
The economic analysis of Czech Fund PGRLF (=Podpůrný a garanční rolnický a lesnický fond).
Signalling by capacity: microeconomic theory, case study, applied econometrics.
Auctions - microeconomics theory and empirical econometric estimations.
Signalling and underutilization of import quotas: microeconomic theory and case studies.
Goverment supported institutions providing credit guarantees and supports (for example Czech EGAP, CMZRB, CEB, PGRLF)
Microcredit and microfinance(Microcredit is the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.)
Economics of biofuels.
Economics of solar energy and other topics related to energy security.
Merit order price effect for renewable energy sources
Green financing in Czech banks
Green financing in Slovak banks
Green financing in European banks
Climate-related risk and financial stability
Green bonds
Green shares
Financing Green Deal – descriptive analysis of available public and private financial sources for supporting EU Green Deal . Creating explicit list of public and private sources of subsidies, loans, credits. The analysis will identify areas which may be supported by subsidies and areas which may be supported by commercial (bank) financing (bank credit, guarantees, but also equity provision). The analysis will be based on statistical data, annual financial reports of banks and other financial and supporting institutions.
Modelling of financial impacts of Green Deal
Pricing green house gases - using financial engineering tools for pricing of green house gases and related financial instruments
Environmental taxes and subsidies
Influence of Green Deal on investment and financing decisions of private firms – use of different types of investment decisions under the Green Deal conditions or evaluation of different real-life investment projects from the point of view of the question How Green Deal conditions (for example ETS trading) influence investment decisions of private firms?
Financing green projects
Pricing of EU ETS (Emission Trading System)
Financing biodiversity
Financing climate change adaptation
Financing climate change mitigation
Financing sustainable agriculture
Insurance and climate change
Environmentally harmful finances
Supervised Bachelor theses
all/awarded: 18/2
Awarded:
Bc. Barbora Svárovská, Bc. Jakub Rojček
Supervised Master Theses
all/awarded: 22/3
Awarded:
Mgr. Jakub Mikolášek, Mgr. Martin Dózsa, Mgr. Tomáš Vyležík
Supervised Ph.D. Theses
number: 2
Jiří Skuhrovec (1.3.2017), Petra Luňáčková (7.3.2018)
Current Ph.D. students
number: 7
Davit Maskharashvili M.A., Mathieu Petit M.Sc. , Paulo Rotella Junior Ph.D., Yermone Sargsyan MSc., Mahir Suleymanov , Salim Turdaliev BSc M.A., MSc. Binyi Zhang
