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Crisis and Transition: policy students' conference

Submitted by puruczkygy on Dec 8, 2014
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This year’s student-organized conference will be held on Friday 19th December, 9am-5pm at Central European University.

Apply now for MESPOM 2015-2017!

Submitted by puruczkygy on Dec 3, 2014
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Apply now for MESPOM 2015-2017

The MESPOM Consortium – Central European University (Hungary), Lund University (Sweden), the University of Manchester (UK), the University of the Aegean (Greece), the Monterey Institute for International Studies (USA), and the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) – is inviting applications for the Erasmus Mundus 

Professor Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) spoke about the free movement of workers in the EU at Princeton University

Submitted by KahanecM on Nov 20, 2014
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Martin Kahanec (DPP) gave a research seminar about whether and how free mobility of workers may have helped an enlarged EU to cope with asymmetric shocks during the Great Recession at Princeton University on November 19, 2014.

Kahanec specifically focused on how institutional factors – EU enlargement and labor market access – affected the mobility of workers and hence EU’s capacity to absorb asymmetric economic shocks and whether post-enlargement migration flows responded to economic shocks.

Vija Pakalkaite, member of the Energy Policy research group, publishes a commentary about Gazprom in Natural Gas Europe

Submitted by Pakalkaite_Vija on Nov 2, 2014
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Vija Pakalkaite, doctoral candidate from the Department of Public Policy and a researcher at CEU Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG, energy.ceu.hu) on October 27 published a commentary about Gazprom’s gas pricing in Natural Gas Europe”.

Professor Kahanec co-organized IZA/NBS/CELSI Conference on European Labor Markets and the Euro Area during the Great Recession

Submitted by KahanecM on Oct 28, 2014
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Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) co-organized with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) and National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) an international scientific conference on „European Labor Markets and the Euro Area during the Great Recession: Adjustment, Transmission, Interactions“ on October 20-21, 2014 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Keynote speeches were given by Klaus F. Zimmermann, director of IZA and professor at Bonn University, and Jordi Galí, director of CREI and professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) spoke about the free movement of labor in the EU at George Washington University and Rutgers University

Submitted by KahanecM on Oct 2, 2014
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On the invitation of Prof. Barry Chiswick, Chair of the Department of Economics,  Martin Kahanec spoke about whether and how free mobility of labor may have helped an enlarged EU to cope with asymmetric shocks during the Great Recession at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2014.

Two days later, on October 3, 2014, he was hosted by Prof. Ira N. Gang at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he gave the same talk.

Martin Kahanec appointed a member of Expert Panel of the Czech Council for Research, Development and Innovation

Submitted by KahanecM on Aug 14, 2014
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Professor Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) has been appointed a member of Expert Panel of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation, a Czech governmental body for the evaluation of research output in Social Sciences.

The Panel will identify those pieces of Czech research that are of major importance to their field, i.e., scientific output of the highest originality and impact on the international scientific community. 

Successful Doctoral Defense of Orsolya Reich

Submitted by Illeso on Jun 23, 2014
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation by

 

Orsolya Reich on

'EQUALITY OF RESOURCES:A NEW ACCOUNT'

Professor Kahanec (Public Policy) talks at IZA/RAND Workshop "Mapping Diasporas in the European Union and the US" in Brussels

Submitted by KahanecM on Jun 9, 2014
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Martin Kahanec, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, presented as an invited panelist at IZA/RAND Workshop: Mapping Diasporas in the European Union and the United States jointly organized by IZA, RAND and the European Commission in Brussels on June 3, 2014. Kahanec discussed the importance of mobility in the EU facing multiple demographic and economic deficits. He focused on East-West mobility, highlighting the eocnomic potentials of skilled migration from Eastern Partnership countries.

Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) and labor economists from 10 EU countries sign "Working Without Borders: A Manifesto for Europe's Future"

Submitted by KahanecM on May 31, 2014
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Labor economists from 10 EU countries, including CEU DPP's professor Martin Kahanec sign „Working Without Borders: A Manifesto for Europe's Future“ as a counterpoint to the prevailing pessimism about Europe and the growing opposition against free labor mobility within Europe, calling for a future-oriented agenda for a genuine European labor market without borders.