Randall Keith Filer (born January 14, 1952) is an American economist. Dr. Filer is a professor of economics at

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and the Graduate Center of the

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and a Visiting Professor of Economics and Senior Scholar at CERGE-EI. He is President of the CERGE-EI Foundation, a US-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

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(GDN), and is a member (past Chair) of the International Faculty Committee at the International School of Economics in Tbilisi (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a research Fellow of the

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(IZA) in Bonn, CESifo (Munich), the William Davidson Institute (Ann Arbor) and the Manhattan Institute (NYC). Professor Filer received his Ph.D. from

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in 1979 where he was affiliated with the Industrial Relations Section and the

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. He graduated magna cum laude with Highest Honors in economics from

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. His research has been supported by the

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, the ACE program of the European Union, the

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, the

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Foundation, and the

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, among others and has appeared in leading professional journals including The American Economic Review,

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, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Development Economics,

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, and The Economics of Transition. 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

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in the Czech Republic as well as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia. Professor Filer is a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation. Founded during the anti-communist movement, the Prague Society is one of the oldest NGOs in the

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. It pursues former Members of the Communist Era Secret Police (

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, Służba Bezpieczeństwa,

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, Securitate and others), fights corruption and helps to develop a new generation of responsible leaders in

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.Members of Prague Society
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References

External links

Biography at Hunter College

Economists Online, publications list

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