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CEU assistant professor Sergey Lychagin published a paper with Sanghamitra Das, Kala Krishna and Rohini Somanathan, entitled “Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry,” in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. The paper looks at the effect that private sector competition can have on public sector companies protected from competition in the past.

CEU associate professor Miklós Koren published a paper with Silvana Tenreyro, entitled “Technological Diversification,” in the American Economic Review.

Associate Professor Miklós Koren and Professor Botond Kőszegi of the CEU Department of Economics have been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Koren received €1.314 million for research on “Measuring Knowledge Flows from Developed Countries to Central and Eastern Europe.” Professor Koszegi received €1.275 million for research on “Behavioral Theory and Economic Applications.” Koren and Koszegi are the only recipients of the ERC Starting Grants from Hungary this year. Also, they are two of only four recipients in Central and Eastern Europe, together with one each in Poland and Slovakia.

CEU Associate Professor Péter Kondor published a paper with Veronica Guerrieri, entitled “Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility,” in the American Economic Review, one the world’s leading journals in economics. The paper introduces a theory of portfolio management where fund managers differ in their ability but this is not observable to investors.