PFI
Talks

The Prague Finance Institute regularly brings you interviews with leading experts from both local and global perspectives.

Episodes with global experts are hosted by Leoš Rousek, Head of Group Communications at PPF Group and former Head of the Wall Street Journal for the CEE region. Episodes in Czech are hosted by Adam Páleníček, Member of the Board at PFI and M&A manager at KPMG.

PFI Talks Vol. 40 – Michael Bordo

"We're Heading Back to the 1930s"

PFI Talks Vol. 39 – John H. Cochrane

U.S. universities became more interested in political advocacy than search for truth.

PFI Talks Vol. 38 – Edward Chancellor

Warns of an AI Bubble and Debt Supercycle Threatening U.S. Markets

PFI Talks Vol. 37 – Štěpán Drábek

"Totalitní tendence nejsou náhoda, ale důsledek."

PFI Talks Vol. 36 – William Goetzmann

"We rely almost entirely on the brilliance and innovation of others."

PFI Talks Vol. 35 – Branko Milanović

The End of Globalization, Why Europe Is Doomed

PFI Talks Vol. 34 – Maurice Obstfeld

In this in-depth interview from the PFI Talks series by the Prague Finance Institute, renowned economist Maurice Obstfeld — Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, former Chief Economist of the IMF, and former adviser to President Obama — issues a stark warning: America’s rising debt, eroding fiscal discipline, and political gridlock are creating systemic risks far beyond its borders.

PFI Talks Vol. 33 – Kenneth
Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is a professor at Harvard University and a former Chief Economist of the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He is well known for his pioneering work on central bank independence and exchange rates. He is the co-author of the widely used undergraduate textbook Foundations of International Macroeconomics.

Leoš Rousek

Leos works as Head of Group Communications at PPF Group, focusing on investor relations in the financial sector. His previous experience included investor communications at Home Credit International and MONETA Money Bank. Before 2015, he used to work for more than two decades as a business journalist for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, reporting from the Czech Republic, Russia, Slovenia, and Slovakia. From 2017 to 2019, he was the chief economic analyst at the Czech business daily Hospodářské noviny.

Štěpán Drábek

Štěpán is the head of the analytical team at ECONET, the association of winners of the Economics Olympiad. He is also an analyst at the Centre for Economic and Market Analysis (CETA) and a researcher at the Institute of Liberal Studies. Štěpán is the founder of the project Economics Simply ("Ekonomie Jednoduše"), which aims to increase economic literacy among the younger generation. He is the author of a book on the inflation surge in the Czech Republic, which was awarded the prestigious Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. Thanks to this work, he became the youngest member of the Czech Economic Society. In his spare time, he translates important texts on economics, primarily those by F. A. Hayek, and helps popularize economic science.