top of page
Profile
Join date: Nov 15, 2018
About
Tomas Havranek is Professor at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. Prior to that appointment he was Advisor to the Board at the Czech National Bank. His research interests include international trade, macroeconomics, monetary policy, energy economics, and methodology of research synthesis. He has published, among other outlets, in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Journal of International Economics. According to RePEc he is currently the most cited Czech economist. More information is available at tomashavranek.cz and meta-analysis.cz.
Posts (9)
May 31, 2026 ∙ 1 min
Stress-testing research with AI, now super easy and fully automated
Last December we shared a protocol for stress-testing (meta-)research by making AI models argue and keeping what survives. But running it by hand (opening several models, copying outputs back and forth) is a chore and our original automation via a GPT agent was not reliable. So we automated the protocol using Claude Code. After a one-time setup it is a single sentence: you describe the task, and the skill (built with Zuzana Irsova) has Claude call OpenAI's Codex, runs the critique and...
49
2
4
Dec 12, 2025 ∙ 2 min
Stress-Testing Meta-Research with AI Duels
A practical protocol that makes ChatGPT and Gemini challenge each other to surface edge cases, boundary conditions, and hidden assumptions in meta-analysis. Includes a WAIVE vs MAIVE worked example plus GitHub and DOI links.
414
4
12
Oct 31, 2025 ∙ 2 min
Highlights from the 2025 MAER-Net Colloquium in Ottawa
by Tom Stanley, Sebastian Gechert, Jerome Geyer-Klingeberg, and Tomas Havranek The Ottawa Colloquium was a wonderful experience and a great success. The quality of presentations and the richness of discussions have never been better. AI featured prominently this year, sparking lively debates that continue on MAER-Net’s blog . We also had many methodological contributions, each offering new ways to understand economics research or to avoid misinterpretation. Of particular note were the...
152
0
14
Tomas Havranek
Writer
More actions
bottom of page
