Five proposals were submitted to the Dean's Award in the category for academic staff for the best research article. These three papers were awarded as the best:
1st place: Ing. Štěpán Mikula, Ph.D. – the article BOE, Kristine, Therese JORDAL, Štěpán MIKULA a Peter MOLNAR. Do political risks harm development of oil fields? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2019, roč. 157, č. 1, s. 338-358. ISSN 0167-2681. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2018.01.005. Interview with the winner is available here.
2nd place: prof. Ing. Štefan Lyócsa, PhD. – the article VÝROST, Tomáš, Štefan LYÓCSA a Eduard BAUMÖHL. Network-based asset allocation strategies. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance. 2019, roč. 47, January, s. 516-536. ISSN 1062-9408. doi:10.1016/j.najef.2018.06.008.
3rd place: doc. Ing. Ondřej Krčál, Ph.D. – the article KRČÁL, Ondřej, Stefanie PEER, Rostislav STANĚK a Bára KARLÍNOVÁ. Real consequences matter: Why hypothetical biases in the valuation of time persist even in controlled lab experiments. Economics of Transportation. 2019, roč. 20, č. 1, s. 1-11. ISSN 2212-0122. doi:10.1016/j.ecotra.2019.100138.
One monograph was nominated for the category for academic staff for the best scholarly book publication, which won 1st place:
1st place: doc. Ing. Libor Žídek, Ph.D. – the monograph ŽÍDEK, Libor. Centrally Planned Economies: Theory and Practice in Socialist Czechoslovakia. 1st. London, New York: Routledge, 2019. 258 s. Routledge Studies in the European Economy. ISBN 978-1-138-61438-3.
Five candidates applied for the Dean's Award in the category for young researchers under the age of 35, two of them share 1st place, other places remained vacant:
1st place: Oleg Deev, Ph.D. – he received the award for co-authoring the article DEEV, Oleg a Štefan LYÓCSA. Connectedness of financial institutions in Europe: A network approach across quantiles. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. Elsevier, 2020, roč. 550, 15 July 2020, s. 124035-124047. ISSN 0378-4371. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.12403.
1st place: Ing. Dominika Tóthová, Ph.D. – she is awarded for co-authorship of the article PAŘIL, Vilém a Dominika TÓTHOVÁ. Assessment of the burden on population due to transport-related air pollution: The Czech core motorway network. Journal of Cleaner Production. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020, roč. 2020, č. 275, s. 1-14. ISSN 0959-6526. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123111. You can watch the interview with the winner here.
A total of three theses were nominated for the Dean's Award in the category for doctoral students for an excellent dissertation thesis by the Dissertation Defense Committees, one of them won the award:
1st place: Mgr. Hana Fitzová, Ph.D. – the dissertation thesis The impact of the European railway reforms on railway efficiency (her supervisor prof. Ing. Zdeněk Tomeš, Ph.D.). You can watch the interview with the winner here.
Congratulations to all the winners and we wish many more, not only publishing successes!
On Monday, 18 November 2024, the AS ECON MUNI meeting confirmed the faculty leadership for the next four years. Most of the Vice-Deans continue with their agenda with updated priorities, the team will be newly completed by Oleg Deev as Vice-Dean for Strategy and Development.
In some parts of the city, it can be faster to ride a shared bike than to drive or take public transport. In Brno, these are areas like Nová Zbrojovka or Spielberg Office, where traffic is heavy and public transport accessibility is poor. Dr Ondřej Špetík from ECON MUNI talks about how Brno residents use the bike-sharing system in the following interview.
