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The IMF Spring 2026 World Economic Outlook at CERGE-EI

CERGE-EI was pleased to invite you to a seminar featuring Hippolyte Weneyam Balima from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook team in Washington, DC, who presented two analytical chapters from the Spring 2026 World Economic Outlook: the macroeconomic trade-offs of the global surge in defense spending and the macroeconomics of conflict and the challenging road to recovery.

Philippe Aghion to Receive an Honorary Doctorate from Charles University

Charles University will award the honorary degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences, honoris causa, to Professor Philippe Mario Aghion, PhD, a Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences, whose scholarly work has made a profound contribution to modern economics, particularly in the fields of economic growth, innovation, competition, institutions, and long-term technological development.

Research, Feedback, and Confidence: A Stay at Yale

As part of our Places You’ll Go series, CERGE-EI PhD student Margarita Pavlova reflects on her research stay at Yale University. The experience helped her advance her job market paper, engage with leading scholars in labor economics, and gain confidence in her own academic voice.

New CERGE-EI faculty member Teresa Freitas-Monteiro explores how migration policy shapes integration

How do migrants integrate into host societies, and why do those trajectories differ so substantially across groups and institutional settings? What happens when public policy stigmatizes minority communities?

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Korovkin Vasily, and Alexey Makarin. 2023. “Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis.” American Economic Review, 113(1): 34–70.

Buchholz, Nicholas, Laura Doval, Jakub Kastl, Filip Matejka, and Tobias Salz. 2025. “Personalized Pricing and the Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides.” Econometrica, 93(3): 929–958.

Ottinger, Sebastian, and Nico Voigtländer. 2025. “History’s Masters The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance.” Econometrica, 93(1): 95–128.

Mackowiak, Bartosz, Filip Matejka, and Mirko Wiederholt. 2023. “Rational Inattention: A Review.” Journal of Economic Literature, 61(1): 226–273.

Ochsner, Christian, and Felix Roesel. 2024. “Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(3): 76–112.

Robson, Arthur, Larry Samuelson, and Jakub Steiner. 2023. “Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth.” American Economic Review: Insights5(3): 357–376.

Samuelson, Larry, and Jakub Steiner. 2025. “Growth and Redistribution: The Hedging Perspective.” American Economic Review: Insights, 7(2): 250–267.

Kina, Özlem, Ctirad Slavík, and Hakki Yazici. 2024. “Redistributive Capital Taxation Revisited.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(2): 182–216.

Ashenfelter, Orley, and Štěpán Jurajda. Forthcoming. “The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison.” Review of Economics and Statistics.

Celhay, Pablo, Bruce D. Meyer, and Nikolas Mittag. Forthcoming. “Stigma in Welfare Programs.” Review of Economics and Statistics.

Celhay, Pablo, Bruce D. Meyer, and Nikolas Mittag. 2024. “What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys.” Journal of Econometrics, 238(2): 105581.

Anatolyev, Stanislav, and Mikkel Sølvsten. 2023. “Testing Many Restrictions Under Heteroskedasticity.” Journal of Econometrics, 236(1): 105473.

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A member of the CERGE-EI's Executive and Supervisory Committee Philippe Aghion has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics... more

 

Public lecture by Filip Matějka: Society in the Age of Inattention took place at CERGE-EI... more

 

Nobel Prize Laureate Alvin E. Roth Visits CERGE-EI... more

 

Professor Švejnar Was Awarded a State Decoration for His Work... more

 

Christian Ochsner in the American Economic Association Research Highlights... more

 

Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Milgrom Receives Honorary Scientific Degree from Charles University... more

 

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