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Working groups

The Platform shall focus on three principal research branches: Dynamic Macroeconomics, Optimal Economic Decision Making and Financial Econometrics and Risk Management. Within each research branch, several Working Groups shall be established. Each Working Group is managed by its Head; researcher with an outstanding scientific curriculum vitae. Each Working Group consists of both well-renowned researchers as well as young scientists, and brings both mathematicians and economists into contact with common research interests.

Research objectives and members

'Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.'


Research branch: Optimal Economic Decision Making

Working group: Portfolio Analysis

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Working group: Optimization Techniques

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Research branch: Financial Econometrics and Risk Management

Working group: Analysis of Financial Time Series

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Working group: Risk Management in Finance and Insurance

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Leading Czech research institutions participate in the Platform

the institutes of Charles University in Prague (referred to as "UK"):

the institutes of the University of Economics, Prague ("VSE"):

Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ("UTIA AV CR").