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Competition for the Best Student Paper in Theoretical Economics
The Council of the Czech Econometric Society announces the 19th Competition for the Best Student Paper in Theoretical Economics. The competition is open to all students enrolled at universities in the Czech Republic, including students in PhD. programs.
Participants are allowed to submit their school projects, bachelor's or master's theses in full or part but not a whole dissertation. The recommended maximum length of the paper is 25 pages. We encourage participants to submit preprints of their journal or conference papers. The paper should be written in Czech, Slovak, or English. Each participant can submit only one paper and the same project cannot be submitted repeatedly.
All participants must register by e-mailing the title of their paper and its short abstract to soutez.ces@karlin.mff.cuni.cz by April 30th, 2019.
Further instructions on the competition can be found on the website The Czech Econometric Society.
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