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Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students

Submitted by Apora on Feb 17, 2012
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the recipients of the Academic Awards for Doctoral Students for the Academic year 2010/11.

Department of Economics Organizes Workshop on "The Social Dimension of Organizations"

Submitted by Apora on Dec 1, 2011

This workshop is organised by Mirco Tonin, Visiting Research Fellow at CEU Economics Department, and Michael Vlassopoulos, from the University of Southampton.

Adam Szeidl wins European Research Council grant on "Networks"

Submitted by Apora on Nov 8, 2011
Adam will use this grant to empirically examine the effect of social networks on economic outcomes. He will combine experiments and firm level data to investigate questions including how social connections help make microfinance work in developing countries; how knowledge diffusion between firm managers about export markets affects foreign trade; and what is the effect of political connections on firm productivity, among others.

Welcome New Faculty

Submitted by Apora on Jul 25, 2011
Starting August 1, Adam Szeidl joins the Department as Professor of Economics.

Is faster trade more trade? Evidence from EU enlargement

Submitted by Apora on Jul 19, 2011

Cecilia Hornok, a PhD Candidate in Economics, finishing her PhD this year, had an article published on voxeu.org, a leading European blog on economic policy analysis.

Professor's publication in leading American journal, American Economic Review

Submitted by Apora on Jun 21, 2011

Gábor Kézdi, Assistant Professor, prospective Head of the Department and Gábor Kertesi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, had their article ’The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary’ published in the most recent volume of a leading American economics journal, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 101, No. 3, May 2011).

Our Student Accepts Job Offer at University of Edinburgh

Submitted by Apora on Mar 11, 2011

We congratulate Anikó Bíró for her successful participation at this year’s ASSA job market.

Welcome New Faculty

Submitted by Apora on Mar 9, 2011
The Department is glad to announce that Sergey Lychagin is joining the Department from August 2011 as an Assistant Professor.
 

Our student at IMF

Submitted by Apora on Feb 15, 2011

We congratulate our graduating PhD student, Dóra Benedek, who was selected for the position of Tax Policy Economist at the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

CEU PhD awardees selected

Submitted by Apora on Feb 15, 2011

The Department would like to congratulate two of our PhD students, who have succeeded in winning this year's CEU doctoral awards.

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