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 Visiting Fellows
April 19, 2007
Maitreesh Ghatak is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and the Director of the research programme Economic Organization and Public Policy (EOPP) at the LSE. He is a senior fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has published extensively in the fields of development economics, economics of organization, and public economics, often in the overlap of all of these fields. After completing his PhD from Harvard he joined the faculty of the department of economics at Chicago, from where he moved to the LSE. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Yale, Northwestern, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He has served as editor of the Review of Economic Studies and the Economics of Transition and is in the editorial board of several professional journals. "George" Lihui Tian is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Peking University and the Leverhulme/CNEM fellow at the London Business School. Professor Lihui Tian holds the license of legal practices in China after passing the bar exam in 1997. He writes the column "Tian's Talk on China" for Korea Herald Business and serves as a senior fellow for Caijing, a top Chinese magazine. A top Chinese financial group has invited him to be a special consultant for asset pricing. He also served for Hong Kong Government University Grant Committee and the program committee for the Financial Management Association in USA for the past three years. His areas of research include corporate governance, corporate finance and transition economics. His research papers on government ownership, initial public offerings and bank lending have received the best-paper awards from the Global Finance Association, Asia Finance Association, China Finance Association and China Institutional Economics Association, respectively. His work of a U-shaped relationship has been taught in Harvard University and Tsinghua University etc. He has taught undergraduates, postgraduates, MBAs and executives. He was also invited to give model lectures to some professors from other universities, organized by the Ministry of Education in China. He has appeared on Korea Broadcasting System TV, Sunday Times (UK) and Singtao Daily (USA) etc. He was a visiting fellow at the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan Business School from 2001 to 2002. "George" Lihui TIAN Office 309 Phone/Fax: 86 10 84909076 Guanghua School of Management Phone: 86 10 62757900 Peking University Beijing 100871, China e-mail: tian@gsm.pku.edu.cn url:http://tian.gsm.pku.edu.cn  Evzen Kocenda Graduated in 1985 from the Prague School of Economics in International Trade Management. M.A. in Economics from the University of Toledo, Ohio in 1992. Graduate studies in Economics at the University of Houston, Texas with a Ph.D. degree in 1996. 1996-1998 Deputy Director for Research at CERGE, Charles University, Prague and the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. 1996-1999 Assistant Professor, 1999-2004 Associate Professor at CERGE, Charles University, Prague and a Researcher at Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2004 Professor of Economics at CERGE. Research Fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School and Research Affiliate of CEPR, London. Economic Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in 1997. Since 1998 a member of the editorial board of the journal Finance a uver. 1998-1999 a member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Since 1999 a member of the CERGE Scientific Council. 2002-2003 the Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE-EI. Citigroup Endowment Professor since July 2002. Since 2004 a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Economics. e-mail: evzen.kocenda@cerge-ei.cz url: http://home.cerge-ei.cz/kocenda New books:
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Featured EDTS Seminar Series Speaker: Maitreesh Ghatak, 
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