Filip Matějka from CERGE-EI Wins Prestigious ERC Grant
30.10.2015Company: CERGE-EI
He is the first Czech national affiliated with a Czech research institution to win an ERC grant as a principal investigator in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities.
It is a great pleasure to announce that Assistant Professor Filip Matějka has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. Filip’s proposal, “Inattention”, is structured around his primary research field of rational inattention theory and applications, with policy implications in areas such as simplicity of tax policy, behavioral economics and mental accounting, and the interaction of voter inattention and the macroeconomic environment. The underlying common thread is how humans economize on and prioritize their scarce attention.
European Research Council grants are among the most prestigious European research awards and support individual researchers of any nationality and age who wish to pursue their frontier research. The ERC encourages in particular proposals that cross disciplinary boundaries, pioneering ideas that address new and emerging fields and applications that introduce unconventional, innovative approaches.
