Faculty
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Associate ProfessorHead of MA in Law and Economics programAndrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and economics, institutional economics and microeconomic theory. His current research focuses on welfare level of the institutional harmonization, vagueness of law, and the relationship between social norms and law. Andrzej received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence in 1996. He also holds an M.A. from Central European University (1992). Before coming to CEU, he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in Wroclaw University of Economics.
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Assistant ProfessorPéter Benczúr is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University and Deputy Head of Research at Magyar Nemzeti Bank (the central bank of Hungary). His research interests are in international macroeconomics and empirical public finance. His current research focuses on the determinants of sovereign risk, financial frictions, international business cycles, and empirical analysis of the behavioral response of individuals to tax reforms.Péter received his Ph.D. from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in 2001. He also holds an M.A. in Mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (1995).
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Assistant ProfessorAlessia Campolmi is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Central European University and a researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are monetary and fiscal policy with particular emphasis on their international aspects and their interactions with labor market frictions. Alessia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2008).
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Assistant ProfessorAndrea Canidio is assistant professor of economics at Central European University. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. His research interests are Organizational Economics, Development Economics and Microeconomic Theory.
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ProfessorJohn S. Earle received his PhD in economics from Stanford University and has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991. He has served as department head (1993-1995), director of the PhD program (2003-2006), and director of the CEU Labor Project (since 1994), an externally funded unit of the university carrying out research on labor economics, firm performance, and industry dynamics. The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects with partners ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Framework Programmes, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region. Professor Earle is also Professor at the School of Public Policy of George Mason University and an affiliated researcher with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. He is President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the largest association of economists world-wide working on issues of institutions, political economy, and international comparisons.
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ProfessorHead of MA in Economic Policy and Global Markets programJulius Horvath is Professor at the CEU from 2005, and Hungarian University Professor from 2009. He is a former Head of Department of Economics (2006-2011) and Department of IRES (2002-2006) at the Central European University. His main interest lies in international economic policy issues, political economy of monetary relations, and history of economic thought. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Nationalities Papers. He is a Member of the Slovak and Czech Accreditation Committees. In the academic year 2011/12 he is on sabbatical.
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Associate ProfessorHead of Department of EconomicsHead of MA in Economics programGábor Kézdi is Associate Professor at Central European University (CEU) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IEHAS). He received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 2003 and joined the CEU faculty in 2004. His research interests include labor economics (especially human capital formation), other areas of applied microeconomics (especially household behavior under uncertainty), applied cross-sectional and panel econometrics, and program evaluation.
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Assistant ProfessorPeter Kondor studies asset pricing with frictions, information and learning and delegated portfolio management. He was an assistant professor in Finance at the University of Chicago before joining the CEU. He recently published an article on "Risk in dynamic arbitrage: The price effects of convergence trading" in the Journal of Finance which was awarded the prestigious Smith Breeden First Prize. Kondor earned his master's degree in economics from the Central European University in 2002, and a PhD in finance from the London School of Economics in 2006.
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Assistant ProfessorMiklós Koren is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University and a research fellow at the Institute of Economics. His research interests are in international trade and economic growth. His current research focuses on the firm-level effects of imported inputs and imported machinery, the dynamics of export flows in disaggregate data, and the diversification of volatility across trading partners.
Miklós holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (2005) and an M.A. in Economics from CEU (2000).. -
Assistant ProfessorRobert Lieli is an assistant professor at the Economics Department at Central European University and a researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). His research is in forecasting and econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (2004) and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin before joining CEU.
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Assistant ProfessorSergey Lychagin is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, industrial organization and international trade. His current work concentrates on the effects of competition and knowledge flows on the firm-level productivity dynamics. Sergey received his PhD in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011.
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ProfessorProfessor of BusinessCoordinator, Academic OutreachPaul Marer has been a professor of international business for more than 30 years. He joined the CEU Business School in 2000, after having taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business since 1975. He holds a PhD in International Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary doctorate from Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He was appointed by three consecutive US presidents—George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr.—to serve on the board of trustees for the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, a $78 million fund from the US government to promote private enterprise in Hungary. He wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other transitioning countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
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Assistant ProfessorKatrin Rabitsch is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Central European University and a researcher at Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. Her current work focuses on countries' external adjustment, the international transmission mechanism and monetary policy in an open economy.
Katrin received her Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2008. She also holds an M.A. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2003) and an undergraduate degree (2002) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
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Attila Rátfai is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Central European University. His research interests are in various areas of macroeconomics. His current research focuses on the aggregate implications of heterogeneity and inaction in store-level pricing behavior and on the nature of international business cycle fluctuations.Attila received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds a University Diploma from the Budapest (former Karl Marx) University of Economics. Prior to joining to CEU, he worked at the University of Southampton.
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Professoron leave (Minister of Finance, Republic of Poland)
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Adam Szeidl is an applied micro theorist who has done research on the economics of social networks, the economics of consumption, and international trade. Prior to joining CEU Adam was associate professor of economics at UC-Berkeley. Adam got his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2004, and his MA in economics from Central European University in 2000.