Impact
Short bio
Tomas Havranek is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague. He studies meta-analysis, correcting published evidence for selective reporting and biases in study design. With Zuzana Irsova, he maintains meta-analysis.cz. He is a CEPR and Stanford METRICS Research Affiliate and Associate Editor for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys. Formerly Advisor to the Board of the Czech National Bank, he became the first Czech economist on an ERC Advanced Grant panel in 2020. He lives in Litomysl, chairs the local school board and helps run the town's floorball club.
Recognition
Google Scholar: 10,453 citations, h-index 44 (14 October 2026).
RePEc/IDEAS, September 2026, last 10 years: first in the Czech Republic, 101st in the European Union and 461st of 74,391 registered authors worldwide (top 1%), among the most cited economists from Central Europe.
Among economists who received their PhD in 2013, RePEc ranks him third in the world.
In 2018 the Czech National Bank introduced him in its video blog as “the most cited Czech economist”.
- 2025
- Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury
- 2024
- Honorable mention from the President of the Czech Science Foundation; Experimental Economics Editors’ Prize for the best paper published in 2022 (with Jindrich Matousek and Zuzana Irsova)
- 2012–2016
- Czech National Bank Economic Research Award, each year
- 2014
- Best PhD Thesis Award, UniCredit & Universities Foundation
- 2012
- Young Economist of the Year, Czech Economic Society (with Marek Rusnak)
- 2010
- First prize, GDN Medals for Research on Development (with Zuzana Irsova)
- 2009
- Olga Radzyner Award, Austrian central bank; Karel Englis Award, Czech Economic Society
Who uses the research
Five Nobel laureates cite his work: Thomas Sargent, Simon Johnson, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Kremer, David Card.
- The Nobel Committee’s scientific background to the 2026 prize for Robert Hall and Michael Woodford discusses his meta-analysis of the marginal propensity to consume in its account of Hall’s theory of consumption.
- Federal Reserve Bank presidents John Williams (2025) and Mary Daly (2023) cited it in speeches on monetary transmission.
- ECB: monetary transmission, 2025.
- Bank of England: Monetary Policy Report, May 2024.
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS): central bank finances and inflation, 2024.
- IMF: World Economic Outlook, April 2023.
- US Congressional Research Service (in every version of its daylight saving time report since 2018) and Environmental Protection Agency (SAGE model, 2024).
- Also cited in research by the World Bank, OECD and European Commission.
Roles
- 2020: ERC Advanced Grant panel, economics and finance; since 2022, expert group supporting Czech ERC applicants.
- 2009–2019: Czech National Bank, economist, then Advisor to the Board (2015–2019).
- 2022–2023: National Economic Council, the Czech government’s economic advisory body.
- Chairs the social sciences section of Charles University’s Grant Agency.
- Associate Editor for meta-analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys.
- Research Affiliate, CEPR and Stanford METRICS; co-leads MAER-Net.
Has refereed more than 250 manuscripts, including for Science, Nature, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Commentary
Czech columns and interviews are in the commentary archive; videos and audio have their own page.
All sources and details: meta-analysis.cz/impact.