List of winners of the competition Young Economist

 

YEAR

WINNER oF THE COMPETITION

INSTITUTION

 2023

Theodor Kouro: Let me Choose What I’m Best at: A Natural Field Experiment with Volunteers

CERGE-EI

 2022

Jan Hanousek Jr.: “Social Networks and Strategic Behavior: Case of Political Inside Information”

University of South Florida

 2021

Ketevani Kapanadze: "Lose with Borders, Win with Centers? The Case of the European Integration"

CERGE-EI

 2020

Bruno Baránek: "Quality of Governance and Design of Public Procurement"

Amazon

 2019

Vladimír Novák, Andrei Matveenko: "The Status Quo and Belief Polarization of Inattentive Agents"

Slovak National Bank

 2018

Ludmila Matysková: "Bayesian Persuasion with Costly Information Acquisition"

University of Alicante

 2017

Mykola Babiak: "Generalized Disappointment Aversion, Learning, and Asset Prices"

Lancaster University Management School

 2016

Adam Kučera: "Interest Rates Modeling and Forecasting: Do Macroeconomic Factors Matter?"

CNB

 2015

Jakub Matějů: "Limited Liability, Asset Price Bubbles and the Credit Cycle: The Role of Monetary Policy"

CNB

 2014

Vojtěch Bartoš: "Sharing norms during seasonal food shortages: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan"

University of Munich

 2013

Martin Kuncl: "Securitization under Asymmetric Information over the Business Cycle"

Bank of Canada

 2012

Tomáš Havránek, Marek Rusnák: "Transmission Lags of Monetary Policy: A Meta-Analysis"

IES FSV UK / European Central Bank

 2011

 

Peter Ondko: "Selection and Performance Gains in Horizontal and Vertical Acquisitions"

Boston Consulting Group

 2010

Filip Matějka: "Information Constraints as Micro-foundations for Nominal Rigidity"

CERGE-EI 

 2009

František Kopřiva: "Constant Bet Size? Don‘t Bet on It! Testing Expected Utility Theory on Betfair Data"

CNB

2008

Krčílková Michaela, Jan Zápal: "OCA cubed: Mundell in 3D"

Cambridge (promising student, died tragically) / CERGE-EI

2007

Tomáš Svítil: "Who is in your "Faves"?: A social network model of cellular service choice“

Flexcar

2006

Michal Bauer: "Does Education Matter in Patience Formation? Evidence from Ugandan Villages" (co-authors Julie Chytilová and Pavel Streblov)

IES FSV UK a CERGE-EI

2005

Jakub Kastl: "Discrete Bids and Empirical Inference in Divisible Goods Auctions"

Princeton University

2004

Martin Melecký: "Anticipations, External Crises and Growth in Emerging Market Countries"

VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

2003

Libor Dušek: "Do Governments Grow When They Become More Efficient? Evidence from Tax Withholding"

Charles University, Prague

2002

Michal Ježek: "A Microanalysis of Pension Reform: To Switch or Not to Switch in the Czech Republic"

BNP Paribas Asset Management

2001

Helena Horská: "Inflation targeting in Poland: a comparison with the Czech Republic"

Raiffeisenbank

2000

Dan Šťastný: "Protekcionismus: 'Ptolemaic' system of popular economics"

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University and University of New York in Prague

1999

Mojmír Hampl: "Metodological Problems of Economics as Nominal Sciences"

chairman of the Czech Fiscal Council

1998

Viktor Kotlán: "The yield curve in the theory and practice of the Czech interbank market"

Česká spořitelna and IES FSV UK

Marek Mora: "The Future of Pension Policy in the Czech Republic"

Deputy Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic

1997

Luboš Komárek: "Design of segments of the structural macroeconomic model of the Czech Republic"

CNB, IES FSV UK, VŠB - TUO

1996

Martin Sommer: "Fundamental Analysis and Technical Aspects of the Development of the Czech Stock Market"

International Monetary Fund

1995

Jan Frait: "Portfolio Model of Balance of Payments and its Application to the Czech Republic in 1992-1995"

vice-governor of the Czech National Bank

1994

Pavel Kohout: "Non-linear CAPM" 

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