FACULTY PROFILE
Jan Svejnar
Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Public Policy Analysis, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Jan Svejnar is the Everett E. Berg
Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics at the
University of Michigan. He is also a founder and Chairman of the
Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague (an
American-style Ph.D. program in economics that educates the new
generation of economists for Central-East Europe and the Newly
Independent States). He serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of CSOB Bank, Governing Board member of the European Economic
Association, Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition. He is
also a Fellow of the European Economic Association and Research Fellow
of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London) and Institute for
the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn).
From 1996 to 2004, Professor Svejnar was the Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School where he established a leading research and outreach program on business and economic policy issues relating to the transition and emerging market economies. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the Founding Director of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, establishing a leading western economic think tank in post communist countries. He also served as Co-Director of the Transition Programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, President of the International Association for the Economics of Labor-Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and advisor to numerous policy makers, institutions and firms, including President Vaclav Havel and Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla of the Czech Republic, OECD, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, GE Capital, Expandia Bank, and SPT Telecom. In the 1990s, he was one of the chief architects of the Czech Republic's economic reforms.
Professor Svejnar's academic interests are in the areas of economic development and transition, labor economics and behavior of the firm. His research focuses on the determinants and effects of (a) government policies on firms and labor and capital markets, (b) corporate and national governance and performance, and (c) entrepreneurship. He is the author and editor of a number of books and has published widely in leading academic, policy and practitioner-oriented journals in advanced and emerging market economies, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economica, Economics of Transition, European Business Forum, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Jan Svejnar was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University. He received his B.S. with honors from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his MA and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
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