Tersoo David Iorngurum M.Sc.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, please get in touch with me via email.
doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková Ph.D.
For current topics see the Student Information System, but I also welcome your own topics in international, financial, and energy economics; especially those related to meta-analysis/publication bias. Please write your thesis in English and use LaTeX.
Ilgar Ismayilov M.A.
Macroeconomics, Fiscal policy, Time Series Econometrics
Mgr. Kristýna Ivanková
Topics from macroeconomics and econometrics with focus on the underlying mathematical and statistical theories (subject to agreement)
doc. PhDr. Ing. Ing. Petr Jakubík Ph.D. Ph.D.
New challenges to financial regulation and supervision
Stress testing of financial sector
Macroprudential supervision and regulation
Macro-prudential quantitative framework in inusrance
Macro-prudential instruments and policy
Macro-prudential elements of Solvency II
Mgr. Lukáš Janásek
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
prof. Ing. Karel Janda M.A., Dr., Ph.D.
(I supervise only theses written in English)
Optimal Debt Contracts
Asymmetric Information Approach to Credit Derivatives
Game Theory Analysis of Options
Bankruptcy
Soft budget constraint.
Consumer demand systems: microeconomic theory and empirical econometric application.
Beer - a production analysis of production and profitability of beverage industry with emphasize on beer: microeconomic theory and econometric application.
Intra-industry trade: theory and empirical econometric applications.
The economic analysis of Czech Fund PGRLF (=Podpůrný a garanční rolnický a lesnický fond).
Signalling by capacity: microeconomic theory, case study, applied econometrics.
Auctions - microeconomics theory and empirical econometric estimations.
Signalling and underutilization of import quotas: microeconomic theory and case studies.
Goverment supported institutions providing credit guarantees and supports (for example Czech EGAP, CMZRB, CEB, PGRLF)
Microcredit and microfinance(Microcredit is the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.)
Economics of biofuels.
Economics of solar energy and other topics related to energy security.
Merit order price effect for renewable energy sources
Green financing in Czech banks
Green financing in Slovak banks
Green financing in European banks
Climate-related risk and financial stability
Green bonds
Green shares
Financing Green Deal – descriptive analysis of available public and private financial sources for supporting EU Green Deal . Creating explicit list of public and private sources of subsidies, loans, credits. The analysis will identify areas which may be supported by subsidies and areas which may be supported by commercial (bank) financing (bank credit, guarantees, but also equity provision). The analysis will be based on statistical data, annual financial reports of banks and other financial and supporting institutions.
Modelling of financial impacts of Green Deal
Pricing green house gases - using financial engineering tools for pricing of green house gases and related financial instruments
Environmental taxes and subsidies
Influence of Green Deal on investment and financing decisions of private firms – use of different types of investment decisions under the Green Deal conditions or evaluation of different real-life investment projects from the point of view of the question How Green Deal conditions (for example ETS trading) influence investment decisions of private firms?
Financing green projects
Pricing of EU ETS (Emission Trading System)
Financing biodiversity
Financing climate change adaptation
Financing climate change mitigation
Financing sustainable agriculture
Insurance and climate change
Environmentally harmful finances
doc. Petr Janský Ph.D.
I am ready to consider supervising your thesis - do not hesitate to get in touch. Please have a look at my recent publications to see whether we have shared research interests.
Martin Kábrt MSc.
Please feel free to get in touch. At present, I welcome topics related to European economic integration, international trade, monetary policy, international finance, macrofinancial linkages or similar.
Mgr. Roman Kalabiška
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Mgr. Klára Kantová
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Ing. Irena Kemény
akademický rok 2002/2003:
Tereza Holovková: Komparace nepřímých daní v České republice a Evropské unii.
Ondřej Svoboda: Mezinárodní daňové plánování.
Lukáš Vorel: Daň z příjmu neziskových organizací.
Jakub Šubrt: Franchising.
akademický rok 2003/2004:
Antonín Bušta: What after Enron new atitude fo corporate reporting.
Olha Khymych
All theses must be written in English:
- Residential energy use.
- Household energy efficiency.
Diana Kmeťková MSc.
I will be happy to consider supervising theses on topics related to Environmental Economics, particularly within the field of Sustainable Diets, Agricultural Economics, Circular Economy or Epidemiology.
Only theses written in English and LaTeX are to be supervised.
prof. Ing. Evžen Kočenda Ph.D., DSc.
Prospective students are encouraged to suggest their own topics – a final topic will be selected based on consultation. Applied topics linking economics and finance are very welcome. Theses in English are supervised and have to include an econometric analysis. Topics below serve as suggestions but do not limit the area of supervision – please, see my homepage (research section) for more ideas on potential topics and area of supervision.
Topics related to transfer of information on financial markets (news, announcements, verbal interventions etc.)
Topics related to inflation (persistence, convergence, targeting, etc.)
Topics related to exchange rates (regimes/arrangements, interventions, current account, fluctuations, risk, Eurozone, etc.)
Topic related to volatility on financial markets (transmission, asymmetries, contagion, spillovers, jumps, etc.)
Topics related to corporate finance (firm performance, efficiency, links to ownership structures, links to privatization, links to market and firms’ characteristics, etc.)
Daniel Kolář MSc.
I welcome topics related to wealth inequality. Theses are to be written in English and LaTeX.
Mgr. Dominika Ehrenbergerová (Kolcunová)
Topics related to monetary policy, financial stability or meta-analysis in general.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
prof. Ing. et Ing. Luboš Komárek Ph.D., MSc., MBA
Driving Forces behind Foreign Exchange Reserve Accumulation for the Small Open Economy
Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy: The Case of the Small Open Economy
Global Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges
Monetary and Fiscal Space in the OECD Countries
Real Exchange Rates development in the EU Countries
Modelling the NATREX (NATural Real Exchange Rate): Macroeconomic Model Based on Stock-flow Interaction
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D.
General topics, preferably applied (you are more than welcome to specify the topic yourself):
Topics on Crypto(currency) markets
Topics on Efficient markets hypothesis
Topics on Fractal markets hypothesis
Topics on Econometrics of financial time series
Topics on Fractality/self-similarity/long-range dependence
Topics in Inter(Multi)disciplinary Economics and Finance
Topics in Computational Social Science
Topics in Energy Economics and Finance
Topics in Data Science (also in cooperation with CSOB)
Some specific topics (not limited to):
- Cryptomining and global warming: Are we heading towards catastrophe?
- Efficiency, predictability and liquidity in the crypto-markets
- Fundamental trading in cryptomarkets
- HODLing and mooning vs. standard strategies in the crypto-markets
- ICOs vs. IPOs: Comparison of the stylized facts
- Monetary economics of Bitcoin: Could it work?
- Multifractal signatures before the market crashes
- Predictability and liquidity in the crypto(currency) markets
- Spin models in marketing
- Spin models in biofuels markets (interplay between producing for food and for biofuel)
Only theses in English and LaTeX are to be supervised.
Currently supervised theses:
- Application of machine learning methods for estimating apartment prices in the Czech Republic
- Examining the Link between Financial Market Efficiency and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
- May Transaction Data Improve Consumer Credit Scoring Model?
- Cryptocurrency and stock markets: Differences and similarities and how they affect each other
- Examining the relationships among cryptocurrencies using Google Trends
- Forecasting oil prices volatility with Google searches
- Forks and airdrops in cryptomarkets: Investment opportunities or thin air?
- Interplay between Bitcoin price and its mining difficulty
- Pairs Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets
- Predicting Financial Market Crashes using Log-periodic Oscillation and Critical Slowing Down
- Private equity funds and their performance in the post-crisis period
- Rational agents with imprecise expectations: Implications for investing and portfolio selection
- Seasonality in Cryptocurrency Markets
- The Profitability of Standard Trading Strategies in Cryptocurrency Markets
- Utilizing online data in modelling unemployment rates in the Czech Republic
Mgr. Matěj Kuc
Topics on banking performance, cooperative banking or impact of distinct ownership models on financial institutions behaviour are welcomed.
Tomáš Kučera MSc.
Social Bridges and Economic Growth
Importance of Social Networks
Behavioural economics and cognitive biases
PhDr. Jiří Kukačka Ph.D.
Students are welcome to contact me via email and consult the supervision of Master theses related to fields of my research interest. The maximum load of supervised theses is around 2 for 2023/2024:
- simulation-based estimation methods in financial- and macro-econometrics (simulated MLE, simulated MM, analysis of performance, comparison), check some articles here or here
- topics on Heterogeneous Agent Modelling in finance, e.g. calibration and estimation (SMM, SMLE) of HAMs, see a video about the HAM topic, also check a nice article here
- analysis, calibration, or estimation (SMM, SMLE) of a Behavioural New Keynesian model, see a video about the macroeconomic ABM topic, read this article for more inspiration about bounded rationality in macro, or this textbook, or these nice papers (EER 2019, EER 2020)
- an advanced empirical analysis of selected Behavioral Finance topics, read about interesting behavioural patterns and anomalies here. Are these patters still detectable today? Are they detectable at other markets than where discovered? Can one reasonably profit on this knowledge?
Currently supervised Master theses:
Eric Zila: Surrogate Modelling Extension of the Simulated Method of Moments
Mgr. Petra Landovská
Students may come up with their own idea on topic in Health Economics, or we can discuss together.
Natalia Li M.A., MSc.
Topics on Development Economics and Public Finance (in English)
Mgr. Barbara Livorová
Topics related to macroprudential and monetary policies.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Markéta Malá M.Sc.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Mgr. Tereza Palanská M.A.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES internal members.
Mgr. Vojtěch Mišák
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Jako doktorand primárně vedu bakalářské práce. Jako vedoucího své diplomové práce si prosím volte především interní členy IES. V případě trvajícího zájmu o vedení Vaší diplomové práce mě prosím kontaktujte emailem.
Mgr. Vojtěch Molnár
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Jan Mošovský MSc.
Topics in time-series econometrics, monetary policy and inequality, history of economic thought and political economy
M.Sc. Kristin Dilani Nadarajah
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Mgr. Lenka Nechvátalová
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master's thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Mgr. Magda Pečená Ph.D.
Please see topics in SIS
Own invention related to Banking, esp. Risk Management in Banking is welcome
Mgr. Ing. Matěj Nevrla
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
Jiří Novák M.Sc., Ph.D., Deloitte Corporate Chair
I welcome proposals to supervise Master’s and Bachelor’s theses in financial accounting, financial analysis, company valuation, corporate finance, and behavioral finance. I only supervise theses written in English that have a clear ambition to be graded A (“1 Výborně”). Before agreeing to supervise a thesis I ask students to prepare a 5-page long thesis proposal that discusses the research question and specifies and motivates the hypotheses. Download below a document containing recommendations about how to write a good proposal. In addition, find below several files (templates) that could help you in your work.
Matěj Opatrný MSc., Ph.D.
Impact of Common Agriculture Policy on Czech farmers
Subsidy and motivation - behavioral aspects
Application of Synthetic Control Method on any relevant and interesting topic
Anything related to Behavioral Economics and Comparative studies.
I am a member of Czech Priorities Thesis, where you can apply for the stipend if youc conduct Master thesis in aformentioned research areas.
PhDr. Miroslav Palanský M.A., Ph.D.
Please see the file below. I will be happy to consider supervising theses related to political economy, public finance, development economics, taxation or tax abuse.
Mgr. Michal Paulus
Gravity models of trade and international political economy
Hyman Minsky´s financial instability hypothesis (Post-keynesian economics)
Jaroslav Pavlíček M.A.
I will be happy to consider supervising theses on topics regarding the use of online data in various fields of economics and finance.
Alena Pavlova M.A.
As a PhD candidate, I am primarily supervising Bachelor theses. You are encouraged to select your Master thesis supervisor from the current IES faculty. If you still want me to supervise your Master thesis, get in touch with me via email.
