Professor Hanousek has published in the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of International Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, and other specialized journals. His research interests include applied econometrics, applied finance, and corporate finance, while his teaching includes various topics from statistics, econometrics, and applied economics. He has taught at the CERGE-EI, Charles University, University of Pennsylvania, and was a visiting professor and research fellow at various prestigious universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Charles University and an undergraduate degree in probability theory from Charles University.

Research fields: Applied corporate finance, Applied econometrics, International Business, Behavior finance, and international trade.

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Dr. Stejskalová is a junior researcher at FBE Mendelu and part of the Mendel FinAct team. She completed her Ph.D. study at Mendel university in 2022. During her studies, she won the best paper of 2019 in the category of young researchers at FBE Mendelu. Her research focuses on behavioural attention and corporate finance. She teaches a bachelor´s degree in finance or capital markets at Mendel university.

Research fields: Behavioural Finance, Corporate Finance

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doc. Kapounek has published more than 50 papers in reviewed journals, including Computational Economics, Economic Modelling, International Review of Economics and Finance, Economic Systems, International Journal of Finance and Economics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Business Science and Technology, and the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, MENDELU. He served as the Vice-Rector for Research and the President of the Czech Economic Society. He worked as a research fellow at the National Bank of Slovakia and the Vilnius University. He has experience in leading numerous research projects (funded by the Czech Science
Foundation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Research Council of Lithuania, the Visegrad Fund, or the European Parliament). He had coordinated Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Group on CEE Banking sector stability after the reform of the European Financial Supervision.

Research fields: Investment Management, International Finance, Monetary Economics, Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Econometrics

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Peter Albrecht focuses on applied econometrics, applied finance, behavioral finance, and monetary economics. His particular interest field is the propagation of shocks on markets, trading, and hedging strategies. He has published in the Finance Research Letters, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Journal of Finance and Economics, and other specialized journals. One of his studies concerning fail-to-delivery volumes has been featured by several organizations, including Slovak Economic Association, Czech Economic Society, and Slovak Council for Budget Responsibility, and ended as the most-read econometric study in the world for July 2023. In September, Peter and his colleagues were awarded the Award for Young Economists for 2023 by the Slovak Economic Association. Moreover, Peter co-founded MPD Invest Ltd., a company creating trading strategies based on econometric methods, and works as a trader for Tatra Banka a.s. and a funded trader by Kortana Inc.

Research fields: Applied econometrics, Behavioral finance, Monetary Economics, and Financial Economics

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Jarko Fidrmuc is a professor and chair of International & Digital Economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and research fellow at CESifo Munich, Institute of East European Studies in Regensburg, Germany, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Austria, and Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania. Jarko Fidrmuc has published in the Journal of Banking & Finance, Finance Research Letters, Journal of International Money and Finance and other specialized journals. He is a editorial board member of academic journals such as Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Economic Systems, Journal of Economics (Ekonomický časopis).

Research fields: International Economics, Institutional Economics, Econometrics

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Dr. Hanousek focus on behavioral finance, insider trading, information asymmetry, corporate finance, applied finance, and economics/econometrics, while his teaching includes various topics from financial markets, the role of institutions, investments, and behavioral finance. Dr. Hanousek has published in Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Empirical Finance. His research has been featured in several media outlets like Bloomberg, Money.com, and New York Times. He won First Place in the Young Economist Award by the Czech Economic Society in 2022 for his work in political insider trading. He has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of South Florida, an M.A. in Applied Economics from CERGE-EI, and an undergraduate degree in statistics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.

Research fields: Capital Markets, Investment Strategies, Financial Econometrics

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Research fields: Institutional Economics, Crowdfunding, Welfare State, Transition Economies

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doc. Kučerová is an associate professor at the VSB-Technical University in Ostrava and Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. She completed her Ph.D. degree in economics at the VSB-Technical University in Ostrava. She participates in the research groups that are related to monetary policy, macroprudential policy, crowdfunding, fiscal policy and debt valuation, among others. Her research interests include exchange rates, monetary policy, inflation expectations, crowdfunding, financial integration, economic policy, and cryptocurrencies. Her work has been published in Economic Modelling, International Review of Economic & Finance, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Baltic Journal of Economics, and Investment Analysts Journal.

Research fields: Monetary Economics, International Economics, Financial Economics

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Aleš Maršál holds an Assistant Professor position at MENDEL University in Brno and serves as a Senior Researcher at the National Bank of Slovakia. In parallel, he is actively engaged with the National Institute for Research as part of a CERGE-EI team. He earned his PhD from Charles University and a Master’s degree from CEU. His research primarily focuses on macro-finance modeling, specifically asset pricing within DSGE models. Recently, his work has expanded to include the impact of AI on labor productivity and its broader implications for economics. His recent papers delve into understanding the costs of inflation and the drivers behind recent spikes in inflation rates. Aleš’s contributions are reflected in several publications in top field journals, notably in the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economics Letters, the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Economic Modelling, and the Journal of Macroeconomics.

Research fields: Asset-pricing, Macro-finance models, Macroeconomics, DSGE modeling

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Daniel Pastorek focuses on applied finance and behavioral finance. His particular interest is in the field of uncertainty and market behavior. He won first place in the Young Economist Award by the Slovak Economic Association in 2023 and was awarded for the best paper of 2023 in the category of young researcher at FBE Mendelu. In addition, he cooperates as a public finance analyst at the Slovak Council of Budget Responsibility.

Research fields: Financial Econometrics, Economic Policy Analysis, Uncertainty

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Katrin Rabitsch has published in the European Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance and other specialized journals. She finished her habilitation in Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

Research fields: International Macroeconomics / Finance, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, and Monetary Economics

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