Present occupation Curriculum Vitae Gábor Békés, Ph.D. Date of birth: 21 November 1974, Sex: male, Nationality: Hungarian Address: Pozsonyi út 7. II/2, Budapest, 1137 Hungary, Tel: +36 30 816 4256, E-mail: bekes.gabor@krtk.mta.hu website : https://sites.google.com/site/bekesg 2005- Institute of Economics, CERS Research fellow present Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2010- Central European University Adjunct professor present 2015 CEPR, London Research affiliate Education 2001-2007 Central European University, Budapest, Ph.D. in Economics Dissertation: FDI Location and productivity : Evidence from Hungary (Advisers: G.I.P. Ottaviano, L. Halpern) 1999-2000 London School of Economics, MSc Economics Thesis: Financial market contagion and the treasury yields 1996-1999 Budapest (Corvinus) University of Economic Sciences, MSc Finance and Economics Thesis: "Theoretical aspects of capital flows and development" 1992-1996 Budapest University of Economic Sciences, BSc Economics Teaching 2013- CEU, Dept. of Economics Data Analysis (MA) 2011- CEU, Dept. of Economics Regional and Urban Economics (MA) 2010-2013 ELTE, Dept. of Economics Economic Geography (BA) Past work experience 2004- Various (e.g. Open Society Consultancy projects Foundation, ECB, TN Research Corp, OTP Bank, Medipolus cluster) 2000-2002 Lehman Brothers (investment bank) CEE Economist (London) 1999 Pénzügykutató Rt (think tank) Researcher Visiting researcher 2011 CEPII Paris 2006 University of Bologna Bologna 2006 Universite Paris I. Paris 2004/05 Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Department Budapest of Economic Research Awards, grants MTA Bólyai research grant (2013-2016) Spatial structure and regional competitiveness OTKA Research grant (2014-2017) The location of employment: Migration, housing and industrial concentration
EU Comm FP7 project Mapping European Competitiveness (work package leader, project co-manager) 2013-15 Competition Network (ECB) 2012 EU Comm FP7 European Firms in Global Economy EFIGE (researcher) 2009-2012 GDN Regional Research Competition Grant IE-Cerge (2006-2007), Factors determining the benefit of spillovers from multinational to domestic firms in Hungary OeNB Olga Radzyner Award for Scientific Work on European Economic Integration, bestowed on young economists from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (2008) CEU Department of Economics, Best PhD dissertation (2007/2008) OTKA Research grant Petrol prices in Hungary ( researcher) 2008-2010 EU Comm FP6 Micro-dyn (researcher), 2007-2010, Presentations (selected) EHT Zurich, Sciences-Po Paris, WIIW Vienna, ERWIT, EFIGE workshop Nottingham, CAED, European Economic Association, European Trade Study Group; Bocconi University, FEEM, Central European University; Magyar Nemzeti Bank; Uni Stockholm; HWWA Institute, Hamburg; Warsaw University, UN Innovation expert panel, Geneva Membership in professional organization: European Economic Association, American Economic Association, Magyar Közgazdaságtudományi Egyesület Languages Hungarian mother tongue, English fluent, French good IT Office software, statistics software (Stata, E-views) Selected publications Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy (with Tommaso Aquilante, Carlo Altomonte and Gianmarco Ottaviano), Economic Policy, 2013 November Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms (with Péter Harasztosi), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 43. No. 1. 2013. 51-64. Temporary Trade and Heterogeneous Firms (with Balázs Muraközy), Journal of International Economics Vol. 87. No. 2. 2012. 232-246. Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis (with Balázs Muraközy, László Halpern and Miklós Koren) Bruegel - December 2011, Brussels Work in progress (selected) Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty, (with Lionel Fontagné, Balázs Muraközy and Vincent Vicard) Trade Complexity and Productivity (with Carlo Altomonte) Internationalization modes of European firms (with Balázs Muraközy) Measuring regional competitiveness in Europe (with G.I.P Ottaviano) The spatial robustness of regionally estimated elasticities (with Péter Harasztosi)
Gábor Békés, Ph.D. Date of birth: 21 November 1974, Sex: male, Nationality: Hungarian Address: Pozsonyi út 7. II/2, Budapest, 1137 Hungary, Tel: +36 30 816 4256, E-mail: bekes.gabor@krtk.mta.hu website : https://sites.google.com/site/bekesg Papers & publications Publications in refereed journals Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy (with Tommaso Aquilante, Carlo Altomonte and Gianmarco Ottaviano), Economic Policy, 2013 November Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms (with Péter Harasztosi), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 43. No. 1. 2013. 51-64. Temporary Trade and Heterogeneous Firms (with Balázs Muraközy), Journal of International Economics Vol. 87. No. 2. 2012. 232-246. Firms and products in international trade: Evidence from Hungary (with Balázs Muraközy and Péter Harasztosi), Economic Systems Vol. 35. No. 1. 2011. 4-24. Spillovers from multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic firms: Evidence from Hungary (with Jörn Kleinert and Farid Toubal), The World Economy Vol. 32. No. 10. 2009. 1408-1433. Külkereskedelem és a vállalatok közötti különbségek (with László Halpern and Balázs Muraközy) Közgazdasági Szemle 60. évf. 2013. 1. sz. 1-24. Magyar Gazellák. A gyors növekedésű vállalatok jellemzői és kialakulásuk elemzése (in Hungarian with Balázs Muraközy) Közgazdasági Szemle LIX. évf., 2012. március (233 262. o.) A teremtő rombolás szerepe a vállalati termelékenység alakulásában Magyarországon (with László Halpern and Balázs Muraközy), Közgazdasági Szemle, vol 63. 2. szám 2011. február Optimális valutaövezetek, gazdasági integráltság és hasonlatosság: az Európai Unió példája (Optimum currency areas, economic integration and similarity: the case of the EU) in Hungarian in Közgazdasági Szemle (1998. (Vol 45.) 7-8. 709p) Working Papers Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty, (with Lionel Fontagné, Balázs Muraközy and Vincent Vicard) CESifo Working Paper No. 4734, April 2014 Tax credit, exports and regional disparity: microevidence from Hungary -(with Péter Harasztosi), EFIGE Working Paper #56, August 2012 Internationalization modes of European firms (with Balázs Muraközy) EFIGE Working Paper August 2012 Trade Complexity and Productivity (with Carlo Altomonte) CeFiG Working Papers, no. 12, October 2010 (earlier version FEEM Working Paper, 62.2009) Location of manufacturing FDI in Hungary: How important are inter-company relationships? Magyar Nemzeti Bank Working Paper, 2005 December, WP 2005/7. new version, available on request
A magyar külkereskedő vállalatok (Firms in international trade - with Halpern László and Muraközy Balázs), 2011 December MTA KTI DP 2011/42 Benzinárak földrajzi meghatározása (Geography of petrol prices with Koren Miklós, Zsohár Péter), MT-DP 2011/30 Work in progress Measuring regional competitiveness in Europe (with G.I.P Ottaviano) Access and availability of European micro-data: a summary The spatial robustness of regionally estimated elasticities (with P. Harasztosi) Books, book chapters Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis (with Balázs Muraközy, László Halpern and Miklós Koren) Bruegel - December 2011, Brussels Motives of corporate location choice (in Hungarian, in English), Chapter 2.1 in The Hungarian labour market, 2004: Review and analysis / ed. by K. Fazekas, J. Koltay and Zs. Cseres-Gergely. - Bp. : MTA KTI, 2004. Nemzeti innovációs rendszer (National Innovation System) in G. Pörzse (ed) Kutatásszervezés és innovációmenedzsment az egészség- és élettudományok területén, Semmelweis Kiadó, 2011 Innovációs klaszterek és tudásparkok (Innovation clusters and science parks) in Pörzse Gábor (ed): Innovációmenedzsment. - Budapest : Semmelweis Kiadó, 2008. Policy reports Hungary How did exporting firms cope with the crisis? - EFIGE Country Report: Hungary, February 2011 (with Miklós Koren, László Halpern and Balázs Muraközy) Internationalization of corporate activity and competitiveness of the European economy: some policy implications (with Carlo Altomonte), Micro-Dyn WP 6/2011 Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms A discussion, (with Péter Harasztosi), 3rd MICRO-DYN NEWSLETTER (September 2010) Hungary and the Euro: Waiting for Godot in Economic and Political Challenges of Acceding to the Euro area in the post-lehman Brothers World, Open Society Institute Sofia /European Policies Initiative (October 2009) Policy & non-technical posts / newspaper articles Internationalisation and innovation of firms: Give them one roof (with Altomonte, Aquilante and Ottaviano) VOXEU.org, 21 March 2014 Restarting growth - Why institutions matter for Hungarian companies, Portfolio.hu (19 October 2012) Why hit-and-run exporting may be optimal- Temporary trade: exporting only once in a while (with Balázs Muraközy), VOXEU.org 20 September 2012 Still Standing: Global crisis and European Firms (with Koren, Halpern, Muraközy) VOXEU.org 18 May 2012
Trade collapse during the 2009 crisis: How did European companies fare?, Presentation at seminar DG Trade of the European Commission, 2011 Budapest Trading ain t easy: How complex is it to trade goods? (with Carlo Altomonte), VOXEU.org (19 November 2010) Financial crisis: from global to local, Budapest Times, Monday, 13 October 2008 Ezért gazdagodik Budapest környéke (This is why cities around Budapest get richer) Defacto.io /Index.hu (with Miklós Koren) Az uniós pénzosztás legnagyobb kudarca (Failure of EU grants) Defacto.io /Index.hu Az euró jövője (Future of the Euro), Külgazdaság, 2012. január.2. A gazellák oldhatják meg a magyar gazdaság kulcskérdését? (Fast growing firms and growth) Napi Gazdaság, 2011. december 20. A görög válság lehetséges kimenetelei: Kifekszünk, vándor, (Greek crisis outcomes) Magyar Narancs, 2011.július 7. A görög válság és az euró jövője - Védett bacillus, (Irish crisis) Magyar Narancs, 2010. május 6. Írország: a hazai tulajdonú bankrendszer csődje, (Bank problems in Ireland) www.szuveren.hu, 2010. november 19. Mi lesz a lemaradókkal? - Nem nagyon várt csomagok, Magyar Narancs, 2011. január 6. Lengyelország: Miért lett Európa csodaországa? (Poland growth miracle), www.portfolio.hu,2010. március 1. Bankadók (On Bank taxes), Szuveren.hu, 2010. szeptember 11. Globális válság: mi várhat Magyarországra? (Global crisis and its local effect) www.portfolio.hu, 2008. október8. Inflációs Célt! (For a proper inflation target) in Hungarian with Attila Rátfai. Világgazdaság (I.) &(II.) 2003. április 14. Miért ugrál a forint árfolyama? (Why is the exchange rate hectic now?) a Magyar Hirlap article in Hungarian with Péter Duronelly, 2003.december 29. Other This is a blog I manage: http://regionomist.blogspot.com/