Position: Professor 
Field of interest: Macroeconomics, International Trade, Monetary Policy, Meta-Analysis
Membership: Internal, Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Contact
Office: 311
Email: tomas [DOT] havranek [AT] fsv [DOT] cuni [DOT] cz
Phone: Please contact me by e-mail
Personal web pages: http://meta-analysis.cz
Available: Wednesday, 4.40 pm, room 314. Always contact me in advance.
More information
Syllabi
Course supervisor
JEB004 - Ekonomie II
JEM222 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF I
JEM223 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF II
JEM225 - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM213 (JEM001) - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM226 - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JEM214 (JEM002) - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II
Teacher
JEB004 - Ekonomie II
JEM222 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF I
JEM223 - Master's Thesis Seminar for CSF II
JEM225 - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM213 (JEM001) - Master's Thesis Seminar I
JEM226 - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JEM214 (JEM002) - Master's Thesis Seminar II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II
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Job history
2021+ Professor, Charles University, Prague
2016-2021 Associate Professor, Charles University, Prague
2016-2019 Advisor to the Vice-Governor, Czech National Bank
2014 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
2009-2015 Economist, Research Department, Czech National Bank
Extra activities
I have reviewed or edited more than 200 manuscripts for journals including Science, Nature, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (my reviewer profile). In 2020 I served in the economics and finance panel of ERC Advanced. I chair the economics panel of the Grant Agency of Charles University, am a member of the University's Grant Council, and serve as Associate Editor responsible for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys. I am a member of the Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants in Czechia. I am also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Data and codes for meta-analysis (you will find my new papers there)
Publications in Scopus
Publications in RePEc
Citations in Google Scholar
Op-eds (in Czech) + here too
Monetary policy activism (in Czech): zrusme-inflaci.cz
Selected publications: REStat, JEEA, JIE (3x), RED (2x), IMF Economic Review (2x), Experimental Economics, EER (2x), JMCB.
I am married to the economist Zuzana Iršová Havránková and we have four children: Kristína (2011), Daniel (2013), Filip (2015), and Lucie (2017).
My older video blog at the Czech National Bank's website (in Czech with English subtitles).
Awards and prizes
According to RePEc I am the most cited Czech economist. I also rank globally among the 200 most influential economists and the top economists in my cohort.
- Excellent Reviewer Award (2018, 2017, 2016) in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance by Publons
- Best PhD Thesis Award 2014 by the UniCredit & Universities Foundation (best dissertation in economics and finance in the 17 countries where UniCredit operates)
- Economic Research Award (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012) by the Czech National Bank
- Young Economist Award, first prize (2012) by the Czech Economic Society
- Medal on Research and Development, first prize (2010) by the Global Development Network, World Bank
- Olga Radzyner Award (2009) by the Austrian National Bank (best scientific work on European integration)
- Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Lubica Laslopova, & Olesia Zeynalova (2023), "Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution." Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- Ehrenbergerova Dominika, Josef Bajzik, & Tomas Havranek (2023), "When Does Monetary Policy Sway House Prices? A Meta-Analysis." IMF Economic Review 71, 538-573.
- Gechert Sebastian, Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, & Dominika Kolcunova (2022), "Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias." Review of Economic Dynamics 45, 55-82
Topics for supervision
Bachelor theses
Please write your thesis in English and use LaTeX. For current topics see the SIS. Still, I welcome your own topics in meta-analysis (especially publication bias), international economics (trade and FDI), monetary economics (optimal inflation), and energy economics (demand for energy and issues related to the social cost of carbon). Send me your GPA from bachelor studies.
Master theses
If you are interested in meta-analysis, please first look at my recent papers on the topic:
Supervised Bachelor theses
all/awarded: 24/6
Awarded:
Bc. Dominika Rečková, Bc. Eliška Slouková, Bc. Jana Sedlaříková, Bc. Marek Hauzr, Bc. Petr Polák, Bc. Vojtěch Molnár
Supervised Master Theses
all/awarded: 38/3
Awarded:
Mgr. Anna Pavlovová, Mgr. Jan Kutman, Mgr. Kateřina Kroupová
Supervised Ph.D. Theses
number: 3
Mgr. Jindřich Matoušek (14.9.2022), Mgr. Matěj Opatrný (27.10.2021), Petr Polák (2.12.2020)
Current Ph.D. students
number: 8
Mgr. Josef Bajzík , Mgr. Ing. Kseniya Bortnikova , Mgr. Dominika Ehrenbergerová (Kolcunová) , Ali Elminejad , Mgr. Milan Frydrych , Mgr. Klára Kantová , Mgr. Jindřich Matoušek Ph.D., Mgr. Vojtěch Molnár
