Head of the Department of Economics, Central European University, 09/2006-Education and Academic Promotion
Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University,
08/2002 – 09/2006
Director of the Doctoral Program, Department of International Relations and European Studies,
Central European University, 08/2001-08/2002
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies,
Central European University, 08/2000-08/2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Central European University,
Budapest, 12/1998 – 08/2000
Chair, Department of Applied Economics, Academia Istropolitana Nova,
Bratislava, 01/1999 - 08/2000
Senior Fellow, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung,
University of Bonn, 05/1998 - 10/1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
07/1997- 05/1998
Assistant Professor, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE-EI),
Charles University, Prague, 05/1997 – 08/1997
External Consultant, Monetary Policy Division, Czech National Bank,
05/1997 – 08/1997
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
08/1996 – 05/1997
Senior Research Fellow, Kopint-Datorg, Budapest, 1988-1989
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Prague 1982-1988
Economist, Central Bank of Czechoslovakia, Prague,
1980-1982
Professor, Central European University, 2005 August
Dr. Habil. Economics, University of Debrecen, 2004 November
Associate Professor, Central European University, 2000 August
Assistant Professor, Central European University, 1998 February
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, Economics, Illinois, USA, 1996
M.A. Ball State University, Economics and Mathematical Statistics,
Indiana, USA, 1992
M.A. (Ing.) Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka, International Economics,
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1979
• “The Border Effect in Small Open Economies” Economic Systems, 2008, Vol. 32, pp. 33-45
with A. Ratfai and B. Dome
• “Trade Balance and Income Shocks: Experience of Transition Economies,” Transition Studies Review,
Springer, 2008,Volume 15, Number 2, September, with M. Veselkova
• “The Law of One Price: Evidence from a Small Transition Economy,” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften,
2005, 56, 3, pp. 257-284, with S. Vidovic
• “Supply and Demand Shocks in Countries to Join the EMU,” Journal of Comparative Economics,
2004, June, 32, 202-211 with A. Ratfai
• ”Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break-up of Czechoslovakia,” Journal of Comparative Economics,
Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 753-81 with J. Fidrmuc
• ”Core and Periphery in the World Economy: An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Integration into the World Economy,”
International Economic Journal, 1999, volume 13, 4, pp. 35-51, with R. Grabowski
• “Currency Crisis in the Czech Republic in May 1997”, Post-Communist Economies, 1999, Vol. 11,
Number 3, pp. 277-298.
• ”Economic Integration in Central America and the Caribbean,” Journal of Economic Development, 1999,
Volume 24, Number 1, pp.121-132, with R. Grabowski
• "Investigations into the Macroeconomic Interdependence of Western Europe: Is there Evidence for Two-Tier Europe?,
Journal of Quantitative Economics, 1998, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.41-65 with S. Sharma
• ”On the European Monetary System: the Spillover Effects of German Shocks and Disinflation,” Applied Economics,
1998, 30, pp.1585-1593, with M. Kandill and S. Sharma
• ”Optimum Currency Areas and European Monetary Unification,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 1997, Volume 15,
Number 1, pp. 37-49 with S. Dibooglu
• “Prospects of African Integration in Light of the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas,” Journal of Economic Integration,
1997, Volume 12, Number 1, pp. 1-24 with R. Grabowski
• ”Macroeconomic Interdependence and Integration in the Indian Sub-Continent,” Journal of Quantitative Economics,
1997, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 37-59, with S. Sharma
• “International Currency Arrangements and Policies” Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2006
• “Economics of Transition Period,” (Ekonomika perechodnogo perioda), Logos Publishing, Moscow 2008,
co-editor with N. Nemchinov
• “On Some Currency Regime Considerations for the Visegrad Countries,” edited book, Duncker & Humblot,
Berlin, 2003, co-editor with G. Heiduk
• “Hungarian Financial Crisis of 2008”, CASE, Warsaw, E-Brief Research Note, 2009/1
• “Personalities in Slovak Economic Research: a Short Historical Sketch,”
(Osobnosti v slovenskom ekonomickom výskume: krátky historický náčrt), ARRA,
Bratislava 2009, forthcoming
• “Return of Political Economy: Economic Theory and Political Problems,” (Návrat politickej ekonómie:
ekonomická teória a politické problémy,), Proceedings of the First Slovak Political Science Conference, 2009,
with M. Veselková, forthcoming
• “Relative Price Variability in Two Small Open Economies,” Proceeding of International Conference on
Development Organized by the Moscow School of Economics, April 2007, with A. Ratfai and D. Botond
• “Border Effects in Slovakia and Hungary,” Proceedings of International Conference on Modeling in Economics,
Bratislava, September 2006, IURA Edition Bratislava, with B. Dome and A. Ratfai
• “Growth Experience and Prospects of Central and Eastern European Countries: a Synthesis”,
prepared for the World Bank GDN Global Research Project on Explaining Growth, August 2005,
with Jan Fidrmuc and Mark Chandler
• “Choice of Exchange Rate Regime: Implications for South-East Europe,”
in European Economic Integration and South-East Europe: Challenges & Prospects,
edited by Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner and Doris Ritzberger-Grunwald, Edward Elgar,
Cheelenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA November 2005, pp. 145-156
• “Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime: the Role of Optimum Currency Area Theory,” Competitio,
2004 December, 3, No. 3, pp. 21-40.
• “Price Variability and the Speed of Adjustment to the Law of One Price” Bank of Finland, 2004,
Research Paper, No. 3, with S. Vidovic
• “The Czech Currency Crisis of 1997,” in Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, edited by M. Dabrowski,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
• “Country Studies: The Case of the Slovak Republic,” in Some Currency Regime Considerations for the
Visegrad Countries, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2003
• “Some Comments on Unilateral Euroization,” in Some Currency Regime Considerations for the Visegrad Countries,
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2003
• “The Optimal Currency Area: A Selective Review” Bank of Finland, BOFIT, Research Paper, 2003/15
“The State of Economics in Slovakia, “ in Three Social Sciences Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe.
Handbook on Economics Political Science and Sociology (1989-2001); edited by Max Kaase,
Social Science Information Centre, Berlin, 2002
• “Shocks and Monetary Integration Efforts. An Empirical Assessment of Slovakia,”
in Proceedings from the Conference on the Anniversary of the 115th birthday of Robert Schuman in Bratislava,
December 4-5 2001; Ekonom Publishing House Bratislava 2002
• “On Banking and Exchange Rate Policy in Hungary,” in Hungary and EU Eastern Enlargement,
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Workshop Proceedings 2002/3,
edited by B. Felderer, H. Frisch, and B. Boehm
• “Optimal Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy when Joining the (European) Monetary Union,”
in Political and Economic Consequences of the Slovak Membership in EU and EMU,
Proceedings of the Conference held in Bratislava on September 13-14, 2001, Academia Istropolitana Nova 2001
• “Latest Developments in the Process of Accession - Update from Slovakia” in EU Structural Support:
Its Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects and Social Environment, edited by J. Gacs and V. Benacek,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, August 2001
• “Supply and Demand Shocks in Europe: Large-4 EU Members, Visegrad-5 and Baltic-3 Countries” mimeo, 2000.
• “Determinants of Growth in Visegrad-4” the World Bank Global Research Project at the Global Development Network,
2000, with Jan Fidrmuc
• "The Disinflationary Effects of German Shocks in Europe: Cointegration Analysis" Southern Illinois University,
1999/2, with M. Kandil and S. Sharma
• ”Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break-up of Czechoslovakia” Center for European Integration Studies,
ZEI University of Bonn, 1999, B-17; Southern Illinois University, 1998/5, and CentER, University of Tilburg,
1998, No. 9874, with J. Fidrmuc
• “Exchange Rate Regimes in the Transition Economies, Case Study of the Czech Republic: 1990-1997”
Center for European Integration Studies, ZEI, University of Bonn, 1998, B 11 with J. Jonas
• "Industrial Productivity Growth in China: 1980-84 vs. 1984-85,” in Intertemporal Production Frontiers:
with Dynamic DEA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, with R. Färe and S. Grosskopf
• ”An Empirical Assessment of the Dependence of Third World Growth on the Developed Countries”
Southern Illinois University, 1996/9 with R. Grabowski
• ”An Empirical Analysis of Dependency and Development: An Alternative Perspective,”
Southern Illinois University, 1996/12 with R. Grabowski
• “Csehszlovákia: 1945-1990,” (in Hungarian), “Czechoslovakia: 1945-1990” Külpolitika, 1990/2, with T. Réti
• 28. ”Az OPEC és a nemzetközi olajpiac,” (in Hungarian), "OPEC and the International Oil Market" Külgazdaság,
Hungarian Monthly Review for International Economics, August, 1989
• “Parciálny človek a komplexný svet,” (Partial Agents and Complex World) Prognostika,
Studijni texty a aktualní informace pro potřeby odborné sekce prognostiky MV Komitetu pro vědecke řízení ČSVTS Praha,
1. 1987, with T. Ježek
• Mikloš, Ivan “Rewriting the Rules” Kalligram Publishing House, Bratislava 2001.Lectures and Presentations:
Economic Systems, Vol. 26, Issue 3, September 2002
• Dabrowski, Marek and Jacek Rostowski (eds). The Eastern Enlargement of the EU,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, Europe-Asia Studies
• Bara, Zoltan and Laszlo Csaba (eds.), Small Economies’ Adjustment to Global Tendencies,
Aula Publishing, Budapaest 2000, The Economics of Transition, 2001, Volume 9
• Gabrisch, Hubert and Rüdiger Pohl, (ed.) “EU Enlargement and its Macroeconomic Effects in Eastern Europe,
“MacMillan Press Ltd; Europe-Asia Studies March 2000
• Greskovits, Bela “The Political Economy of Protest and Patience. East European and Latin American
Transformations Compared, “Central European University Press, The Economics of Transition, 1999
• Dedek, Oldrich et al., “The Break-up of Czechoslovakia: an In-depth Economic Analysis,”
Institute of Economics of the Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic.” Aldershot, Avebury, 1996,
The Economics of Transition, 1998, Volume 6 (1) with J. Fidrmuc
• József Móczár, Fejezetek a modern közgazdaságtudományból, (Chapters from Modern Economic Theory),
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2008,
• ‘Financial Crisis 2007, 2008, 2009 in the Global Economy’, Keynote lecture at the conference Global economic crisis:
challenges and opportunities for Europe – framing the context conference organized by the British Embassy in Budapest,
and the Central European University, February 2009
• “Return of Political Economy: Economic Theory and Political Problems,” (Návrat politickej ekonómie:
ekonomická teória a politické problémy,), 1. Slovenský politologický kongres (1st Slovak Politological Congress),
2009, with M. Veselková, October 2009, Trnava
• “Price Rigidity in Slovak Retail Stores,” 1st Bratislava Economic Meeting, Bratislava, June 2008,
Conference of the Slovak Economic Association
• “Some Facts on Price Rigidity: Case of Slovakia,” The IXth International Academic Conference on
Economic Modernization and Globalization Moscow, April 2008
• “Aspects of Market Integration in a Transition Economy, “Financial Market Integration, Structural Change,
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in the EU25” Number–2006–1623/001-00, Brusells, 2008 March
• “Relative Prices and the Border Effect,” Conference to 70th Birthday of Honor Mir Masoon Ali, Indianopolis,
Indiana, Ball State University, May 2007
• “Relative Price Variability in Two Small Open Economies,” International Conference on Development Organized by
the Moscow School of Economics, April 2007
• Border Effects in Transition Economies: Case Study of Hungary and Slovakia, November 2006
Munich University Germany
• Border Effects in Slovakia and Hungary, International Conference on Micro and Macro Modeling in Economics,
Bratislava 2006, September,
• Border Effects in Transition Economies: Case Study of Hungary and Slovakia, 2006 August,
Global Development Network Conference, CERGE-EI Prague
• The Law of One Price: Evidence from a Small Transition Economy, 2005 CAG Workshop,
“Convergence within Europe,” at Castle Sulzbach-Resenberg, Germany, May 2005
• Choice of Exchange Rate Regime: Implications for South-East Europe Austrian Central Bank,
Conference on South East Europe and Future EU Enlargement, November 2004
• European Economics: Dilemmas of Western European Welfare States and Dynamics of Eastern Europe,
Pontifica Catholica Universidad del Peru, November 2004
• European Economics: Dilemmas of Western European Welfare States and Dynamics of Eastern Europe,
Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Peru, November 2004
• Price Variability and the Speed of Adjustment to the Law of One Price, University of Regensburgh,
January 2004
• Price Variability and the Speed of Adjustment to the Law of One Price Technical University of Vienna,
November 2003
• Price Variability and the Speed of Adjustment to the Law of One Price Bank of Finland, Research Seminar,
July 2003
• Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, Bank of Finland, August 2003
• Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, Economic University, Kosice, Slovakia, September 2004,
• Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, Comenius University, Slovakia, April 2004
• Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, Conference on Transition Economies, Academia Istropolitana Nova,
Bratislava, March 2002
• Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, University de Paris 1, March 2001,
On Banking and Exchange Rate Policy in HungaryVienna, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Conference on Hungary and EU Eastern Enlargement, June 2002
• On Political Economy of Government Budgeting ZEI/CEPR Conference on Political Economy of Transition,
University of Bonn, May, 2002
• Shocks and Monetary Integration Efforts. An Empirical Assessment of SlovakiaConference to
celebrate the 115th birthday of Robert Schuman, Bratislava, December 2001
• Supply and Demand Shocks in Europe: Large-4 EU Members, Visegrad-5 and Baltic-3 Countries University de Paris 1,
March 2001
• Supply and Demand Shocks in Europe: Large-4 EU Members, Visegrad-5 and Baltic-3 Countries Conference on
Transition Economies, Academia Istropolitana Nova, Bratislava, March 2002
• The State of Economics in SlovakiaCollegium Budapest, January, 2002,
• On Euroization, Conference, University of Duisburg, October 2001
• On Currency and Exchange Rate Regimes. Example of SlovakiaConference, University of Duisburg,
October 2001
• Exchange Rate Regimes in the Transition Economies; Case Study of the Czech Republic University of Bonn,
ZEI, September 1998
• Exchange Rate Regimes in the Transition Economies; Case Study of the Czech Republic CentER,
University of Tilburg, October 1998
• Exchange Rate Regimes in the Transition Economies; Case Study of the Czech Republic Oakland University,
USA, January 1999
• Exchange Rate Regimes in the Transition Economies; Case Study of the Czech Republic University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, February 1999
• Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break-up of Czechoslovakia European Economic Association,
Berlin, September 1998
- Head of the Complex Accreditation of the University of Komarno,
January 20098-August 2009
- Head of the Complex Accreditation of the Economic University in Bratislava,
May 2008-August 2009
- Chair of Slovak Accreditation Committee Chapter on Social and Behavioral Science,
June 2008 - August 2010
- Member of the Accreditation Committee of the Slovak Government,
from September 2004
- Member of the Academic Senate of the Central European University,
from October 2004
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences,
Bratislava, from September 2003
- Vice-Chairman, Kopint-Datorg Foundation Budapest,
- Founding Member Slovak Economic Association,
June 2008
- Member of the Board of the Summer School, Central European University
Acta Oeconomica, Contemporary Economic Policy, Competitio, Eastern Economic Journal,
Economic Modeling, Economics of Transition, Ekonomický Časopis, European Societies,
European Journal of Political Economy, International Economics and Economic Policy,
Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development,
Problems and Perspectives in Management, Sigma, The Manchester School,
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
- International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer Verlag
- Külgazdaság, Kopint-Tarki, Hungary
- Nashe Gospodarstvo, Maribor University, Slovenia
- Competitio, Debrecen University, Hungary
- Köz-Gazdaság Tudományos Füzetek, Corvinus University, Budapest
- Prague Economic Papers, Charles University Prague Czech Republic,
- Slovenská Politologická Review, Slovak Journal for Political Science, Trnava, Slovak Republic
- Business Perspectives, Sumy, Ukraine
- “Financial Market Integration, Structural Change, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in the EU25”
Number–2006–1623/001-001, Economic Commission, 2007
- Global Development Network Research Project: “Price Convergence in the New Member States of the European Union:
the Case of Hungary and the Slovak Republic,” 2006
- Central European University Research Grant 2004
- World Bank Research Project: Determinants of Economic Growth, in Global Development Network,
“The Constraints of the Growth in Visegrad Countries” 2003
- The Phare ACE Programme Action for Cooperation in the Field of Economics, on
“Optimum Choice of Exchange Rate Regime for the Accession - Countries: Cost and Benefit Analysis of
EMU Membership,” 2000- 2001
- Summer School on International Macroeconomics, University of Bonn, Germany, August 1998
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ZEI, University of Bonn, Germany, May 1998 - September 1998
- Postdoctoral Research Grant, ESC-CERGE, Prague, September 1996-August 1997
- Dissertation Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, August 1995-August 1996
- Summer Fellowship for the Seminar on Austrian Economics, New York University, 1995
- Doctoral Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, Summer 1994 to Spring 1995
Slovak (native), Hungarian (near-native), Czech (near-native), English (fluent),
Russian (almost fluent, forgetting), German (some), Italian (some).