Curriculum Vitae
- Person-Related Identification Information
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- Department
- Masaryk University
Faculty of Economics and Administration
Department of Economics
Lipová 41a
602 00 Brno
- Employment - Position
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- Education and Academic Qualifications
- 2022: doc., MU, Faculty of Economics and Administration
Habilitation Thesis: Three Essays in Macroeconomics:
A Comprehensive Framework in
Macroeconomic Policy Evaluation
- 2012: Ph.D., MU, Faculty of Economics and Administration
Ph.D. Thesis: Structural changes in the Czech economy: a DSGE model approach
Supervisor: prof. Ing. Osvald Vašíček, CSc.
- 2004: Ing., MU, Faculty of Economics and Administration
Master Thesis: Forward-looking monetary macroeconomic model
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Osvald Vašíček, CSc.
- Employment
- 2022-now: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, MU
- 2022-2025: Senior Researcher, SYRI
- 2013-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, MU
- 2008-2012: Assistant, Department of Economics, MU
- 2006-2011: Research Assistant, Research Centre for Competitiveness of Czech Economy, MU
- 2008: Assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, MU
- Teaching Activities
- Macroeconomics I and II (English, Czech)
- Time series analysis
- Microeconomics I a II
- International Economics
- Basics of Econometrics
- Applications of economical mathematical models
- Economic-mathematical methods I and II
Membership in committees for state final exams:
- Bachelor's Degree Programs: Economic Policy, Public Economics and Administration, Economics and Management of Non-Profit Organizations, Regional Development and Administration, Regional Development and Tourism, Finance, Finance and Law, Business Economics and Management, Business Informatics, Economics
- Master's Degree Programs: Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Policy and International Relations, Public Economics and Administration (Administration Publique), Regional Development and Administration, Finance, Business Economics and Management, Business Informatics, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Economics
- Scientific and Research Activities
- DSGE Models, Macroeconomic Forecasting, Sensitivity Analysis, Macroeconomic Data, Structural Changes, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Bayesian Averaging
- Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work
- 2015: Guildford, UK, University of Surrey, summer school The Science and Art of DSGE Modelling, Tom Holden, Paul Levine
- 2013: Budapest, Maďarsko, Magyar Nemzeti Bank, summer school Time Series Methods, Fabio Canova
- 2009: Ispra, Itálie, Joint Research Centre under European Comission, workshop Sensitivity Analysis, Marco Ratto
- 2018/10/16 – 2018/12/21: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Wien, Other programs, AUT
- University Activities
- 2021-2023:On the time-varying predictive ability of theoretical and empirical macroeconomic models
GA ČR 21-10562S (principal investigator J. Crespo Cuaresma), team member and coordinator of international team (AT, CZ)
- 2017-2019: Dynamic forecast averaging of macroeconomic models
GA ČR 17-14263S (principal investigator J. Crespo Cuaresma), team member and coordinator of international team (AT, CZ, HU)
- 2017 Quantitative analysis of economic behavior and economic policy
MUNI/A/0943/2016 (principal investigator A. Slaný), team member
- 2016 Macroeconomic analysis of economic behavior and economic policy with quantitative methods
MUNI/A/1049/2015 (principal investigator A. Slaný), team member
- 2015 Analysis of the behavior of the economy during the business cycle using dynamic macroeconomic models
MUNI/A/1121/2014 (principal investigator M. Slanicay), team member
- 2014 Analysis of the behavior of the economy during the business cycle using dynamic models
MUNI/A/0775/2013 (principal investigator M. Slanicay), team member
- 2012 Analysis of development of the economy and economic policy during the global crisis: DSGE models of small open economies with financial frictions and frictions in the labor market
MUNI/A/0780/2011 (principal investigator O. Vašíček), team member
- 2010-2011: Analysis and forecast of economic policy during recession: models of small, open, inflation targeted economies
MUNI/A/0943/2009 (principal investigator O. Vašíček), team member
- 2005-2008:Monetary policy and macroeconomic stabilization: identification and application of general equilibrium models
GA ČR 402/05/2172 (principal investigator O. Vašíček), research assistant
- 2003-2005:Effects of monetary policy and exogenous shocks on a small open economy
GA ČR 402/02/0393 (principal investigator O. Vašíček), research assistant
- Awards Related to Science and Research
- 2021: Dean's Award for the Best Publication of 2021:
Fiscal multipliers in a small open economy: the case of Austria
published in Oxford Economic Papers
- 2020: Dean's Award for the Best Publication of 2020: We
just estimated twenty million fiscal multipliers published in
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
- 2010: Dean's Award for paper Comparing the fit of New Keynesian DSGE models
- 2010: Best paper of the conference MEKON '10 for Comparing the fit of New Keynesian DSGE models
- 2004: Dean's Award for Best Diploma Thesis
- Major Publications
- ČAPEK, Jan, Jesús CRESPO CUARESMA, Niko HAUZENBERGER a Vlastimil REICHEL. Macroeconomic forecasting in the euro area using predictive combinations of DSGE models. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING. NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER, 2023, roč. 39, č. 4, s. 1820-1838. ISSN 0169-2070. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.09.002. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan, Jesús CRESPO CUARESMA, Johannes HOLLER a Philip SCHUSTER. Fiscal multipliers in a small open economy: the case of Austria. OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS-NEW SERIES. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, roč. 74, č. 2, s. 412-430. ISSN 0030-7653. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpab027. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan a Jesús CRESPO CUARESMA. We just estimated twenty million fiscal multipliers. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2020, roč. 82, č. 3, s. 483-502. ISSN 0305-9049. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12351. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Structural Changes in the Czech Economy: a DSGE Model Approach. Prague Economic Papers : Quarterly Journal of Economic Theory and Policy. Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016, roč. 25, č. 1, s. 37-52. ISSN 1210-0455. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.535. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Kam se poděla inflace? In Trade-off. 2016, s. 74-79. info
- SLANICAY, Martin, Jan ČAPEK a Miroslav HLOUŠEK. SOME NOTES ON PROBLEMATIC ISSUES IN DSGE MODELS. Economic Annals. 2016, LXI, č. 210, s. 79-100. ISSN 0013-3264. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2298/EKA1610079S. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Estimating DSGE model parameters in a small open economy: Do real-time data matter? Národohospodářský obzor. Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 89-114. ISSN 1213-2446. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0001. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Historical Analysis of Monetary Policy Reaction Functions: Do Real-Time Data Matter? Finance a úvěr. Datakonekt, 2014, roč. 64, č. 6, s. 457-475. ISSN 0015-1920. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Real-time versus revised Czech data: a DSGE analysis. In Proceedings of 31th International Conference Mathematical Methods in Economics. 1. vyd. Jihlava: College of Polytechnics Jihlava, 2013, s. 107-112. ISBN 978-80-87035-76-4. info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Comparison of recursive parameter estimation and non-linear filtration. In Ramík, J., Stavárek, D. Proceedings of 30th International Conference Mathematical Methods in Economics. 1. vyd. Karviná: Silesian University, School of Business Administration, 2012, s. 85-90. ISBN 978-80-7248-779-0. info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Changes in the behavior of economies in a DSGE model in the course of time. In Dlouhy, M; Skocdopolova, V. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Economics 2011. 1. vyd. Praha: PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING, 2011, s. 94-100. ISBN 978-80-7431-058-4. info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Comparing the fit of New Keynesian DSGE models. Ekonomická revue. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2010, roč. 13, č. 4, s. 207-218. ISSN 1212-3951. URL info
- ČAPEK, Jan. Mezera výstupu v ČR: oficiální a neoficiální odhady. Národohospodářský obzor. Brno: ESF MU Brno, 2007, roč. 2007, č. 4, 10 s. ISSN 1213-2446. URL info
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