Laboratoř experimentální ekonomie

As a part of the PAOP project "Quality Education is an Effective Investment to Human Capital – A Way to UEP Graduate to Succeed on Labor Market; CZ.2.17/3.1.00/32102" a seminar took place on May 11, 2012 in the LEE. It focused on building and running of succesful consulting firm on the Czech market. The seminar was lead by the Executive Director Advisory Services of Enrst&Young Mr. Josef Severa. For details follow the link to the "Teaching at the UEP" section.

As a part of the PAOP project "Quality Education is an Effective Investment to Human Capital – A Way to UEP Graduate to Succeed on Labor Market; CZ.2.17/3.1.00/32102" a seminar took place on May 2, 2012 in the LEE. It focused on practical issues of Investment Projects Financing. The seminar was lead by the Head of Financing of Investment Projects of Česká spořitelna, a.s. Mr. Vladimir Kubicek. For details follow the link to the "Teaching at the UEP" section.

Italian specialist on experimental economics Luigi Luini from Università di Siena visited the LEE from April 2 through April 5, 2012. He presented his research projects on three seminars at the LEE/UEP and at the CERGE-EI. For detailed information on seminars refer on section Education - Seminars.

As a part of the PAOP project "Quality Education is an Effective Investment to Human Capital – A Way to UEP Graduate to Succeed on Labor Market; CZ.2.17/3.1.00/32102" a seminar took place on April 4, 2012 in the LEE. It focused on current problems of telecommunication wholesale markets. The seminar was lead by the Director of the Wholesale Division in Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s. Mr. Pavel Jirousek. For details follow the link to the "Teaching at the UEP" section.

As a part of the PAOP project "Quality Education is an Effective Investment to Human Capital – A Way to UEP Graduate to Succeed on Labor Market; CZ.2.17/3.1.00/32102" a seminar took place on March 22, 2012 in the LEE. It focused on current problems of Asset Management. The seminar was lead by a specialist in the field from Conseq Investment Management Mr. Lukas Vacha. For details follow the link to the "Teaching at the UEP" section.

Cary Deck from the University of Arkansas led a very succesful workshop at the LEE from January 30 through February 10, 2012. The workshop was attended by 20 students from six universities - UEP, FSV UK, CERGE-EI, MUNI, University of Presov and Institute of Physiology AS CR. Program of the workshop can be downloaded in the Education - UEP section. Pictures from the seminar are available in the Photogallery section.

Professor Cary Deck from the University of Arkansas will be teaching an intensive course "Selected Chapters from Experimental Economics" from January 30 through February 10 14, 2012 in the LEE. Further information on C. Deck, course, its organization and registration of those interested in taking part, please, see sections "Teaching at the UEP" or "Teaching outside the UEP".

On December 10, 2011, as a part of his bachelor thesis research "Are Women More altruistic Than Men?" Marek Pekoč conducted an experient based on Dictator Game in which a charity organisation ADRA was a recipient. A representative of ADRA presented their activities to subjects who were than asked to divide money between them and the organization (details on research here). Money raised for ADRA activities from experiment amounted to 3210,- CZK and LEE rounded the total up to 4000,- CZK. Proceeds were then sent to ADRA account. Money will be used to help people of the Horn of Africa.

Lithuanian specialist on experimental economics Rimvydas Baltaduonis from Gettysburg College visited the LEE from December 10 through December 15, 2011. He ran two sessions (session = experiment plus lecture) as a part of the "Principles of Experimental Economics" course at the UEP. For detailed information on sessions and the course refer on the section Education - Teaching at the UEP. Pictures from the LEE seminar are available in the Photogallery. Rim also presented his work at Research seminars at the CERGE-EI and UEP. For detailed information refer on the section Education - Seminars.

Natalia Shestakova, smart and younger collegue of us pursuing research in behavioral economics, defended on December 8, 2011, her dissertation thesis "Boundedly Rational Consumers and Complex Pricing Schemes" and got her PhD at the CERGE-EI. Some experiments for her thesis were conducted in the LEE (see section Student works). From September 2011 Natalia works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Universität Wien (her homepage here). Congratulations! Natalia, we wish you all the best in your future career and personal life.