Education
Princeton University.
Princeton University.
Doctor Filer is a Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Visiting Professor of Economics and Senior Scholar at CERGE-Economic Inquiry. He is President of the CERGE-Economic Inquiry Foundation, a United States-based nonprofit that supports economic education in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Professor Filer serves as the Eastern European Coordinator of the Global Development Network (GDN), and is a member (past Chair) of the International Faculty Committee at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, CESifo (Munich), the William Davidson Institute (Ann Arbor) and the Manhattan Institute (New York City).
Professor Filer received his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1979 where he was affiliated with the Industrial Relations Section and the Office of Population Research.
He graduated magna cum laude with Highest Honors in economics from Haverford College. His areas of expertise include financial and capital markets, labor markets, urban economics, demography and development economics, including the economic transition in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Professor Filer has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in the Czechoslovakian Republic as well as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia.
His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Council on Exercise program of the European Union, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others and has appeared in leading professional journals including The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and The Economics of Transition.
Professor Filer is a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation, a respected non-governmental organization whose main goals are networking and the development of a new generation of responsible, well-informed leaders and thinkers.
