Team coordinators
JAN HANOUSEK, Professor at the Department of Finance, FBE Mendelu

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.
Research links: Google Scholar, IDEAS/RePEc, ORCID, ResearchID, Researchgate, Scopus ID
JOLANA STEJSKALOVÁ, Assistant and Researcher, FBE Mendelu

Dr. Stejskalová is a junior researcher at FBE Mendelu and part of Mendel Finhub team. She finished her Ph.D. studies at Mendel university in 2022. During the studies she win the best paper of 2019 in category of young researchers at FBE Mendelu. Her research focus on behavioural attention and corporate finance. She is teaching at Mendel university an undergraduate degree in financial or capital markets.
Research fields: Behavioural Finance, Corporate Finance
Research links: Researchgate, IDEAS/RePEc, ResearchID
Team core
SVATOPLUK KAPOUNEK, Dean of FBE Mendelu

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
Research links: Websites, Researchgate, IDEAS/RePEc, ResearchID
Team core (alphabetically sorted)
PETER ALBRECHT, Researcher, PhD. student at FBE Mendelu

Research fields: Applied econometrics, Economic Policy Analysis, International Finance, Financial Econometrics
JARKO FIDRMUC, Professor at the Department of Finance, FBE Mendelu

Research fields: International Economics, Institutional Economics, Econometrics
JAN HANOUSEK JR., Assistant and Researcher, FBE Mendelu

Research fields: Capital Markets, Investment Strategies, Financial Econometrics
BLANKA KEDROŇOVÁ (FRANCOVÁ), Researcher, FBE Mendelu (lesson: International Finance, Capital Markets)

Research fields: Corporate Bonds, International Finance
LUDĚK KOUBA, Associated Professor at the Department of Economics, FBE Mendelu

Research fields: Institutional Economics, Crowdfunding, Welfare State, Transition Economies
ZUZANA KUČEROVÁ, Associated Professor at the Department of Finance, FBE Mendelu

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
Research links: Researchgate, IDEAS/RePEc, ResearchID, Scopus ID, ORCID
ALEŠ MARŠÁL, Assistant and Researcher, FBE Mendelu (lesson: Portfolio Management)

Research fields: Asset-pricing, Macro-finance models, Macroeconomics, DSGE modeling
KATRIN RABITSCH, Associate Professor of Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)

Research fields: International Macroeconomics / Finance, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, and Monetary Economics
DANIEL PASTOREK, Researcher, PhD. student at FBE Mendelu

Research fields: Financial Econometrics, Economic Policy Analysis, Uncertainty
KLÁRA VEČEŘOVÁ (BAKOVÁ), Researcher, PhD. student at FBE Mendelu (lessons: Capital markets, Portfolio Management)

Research fields: Corporate Finance, Corporate Investments, Uncertainty