The Laureate of the Kateřina Šmídková Prize is Jana Cahlíková
The winner of this year’s Kateřina Šmídková Prize, awarded by the Czech Economic Society (CES), is Jana Cahlíková, assistant professor at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and research associate at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of CERGE at Charles University in Prague and the Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of. Sciences. In her research, Dr Cahlíková is active within the area of behavioural and experimental economics, as well as within the area of applied microeconomics, political economy, organizational economics, and development economics.
Her main research contributions focus on the dark side of human social behaviour, such as group biases, antisocial behaviour, and behaviour under acute stress. She runs economic experiments (lab-in-the-field, lab, field, and online) to study how social and institutional environments affect these types of behaviours.
The Kateřina Šmídková prize is awarded by the Society in memory of Czech economist Kateřina Šmídková, a long-time member of the CES’s board of directors, a professor of economy at IES FSV UK and the director of an individual department of economic research at the Czech National Bank. The purpose of this prize is to award Czech and foreign female economists living in the Czech Republic for a long period and engaging in exceptionally high-quality publishing activities with support for their further professional progress. The prize is accompanied by a monetary award of 100,000CZK, and is financed from the funds bequeathed by Professor Šmídková. These funds are managed by the Kateřina Šmídková Trust.
Jana Cahlíková has been working as an assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, since September 2024. She is a part of the Behavioral Economics group at the Department of Applied Economics. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bonn, Institute for Applied Microeconomics and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Department of Public Economics) in Munich. She received her PhD in Economics from CERGE at Charles University in Prague in 2016. She holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.
Jana Cahlíková is among the best publishing Czech economists. She published her work in prestigious journals such as Nature, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Development Economics. Her research is also recognized in terms of citations. Her work contributes to our understanding of the social behaviour of people facing different environments, such as under stress, peer pressure, discrimination, etc. She mainly uses experimental methods for her research.
Jana Cahlíková also actively cooperates with a number of economists from several institutions in the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI and IES at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, Czech Academy of Sciences CR and Prague University of Economics and Business), and thus she contributes to the development of economic research in the Czech Republic.
The prize was awarded on 30th November 2024, during the 13th biennial conference of the Czech Economic Society, which was held at the Prague University of Economics and Business. The prize was ceremoniously presented by the President of the Czech Economic Society (CES), Daniel Němec.
For more information about the prize, see the Czech Economy Society’s website (www.cse.cz).
Contact for journalists
Daniel Němec, president of the CSE, tel: +420 725 175 530, daniel.nemec@econ.muni.cz
Mariola Pytliková, chairman of the prize committee, tel: +420 739 211 312, mariola.pytlikova@cerge-ei.cz
Note for editors
The Czech Economic Society (CES) is a civic association of professionals and supporters of the field of economics. The main mission of the CES is to help the development and popularisation of the economy in the Czech Republic in a way that respects and supports opinion plurality and the independent development of economics courses. The CES is a member of the Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic.
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