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Acta Oeconomica, Vol 58 (3) pp. 345-349 (2008) DOI: 10.1556/AOecon.58.2008.3.6
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
György Csáki (55) PhD, economist, Associate Professor of the Institute for Euro-
pean Studies at the Szent István University, Gödöllo, Hungary. He is the secretary of the Committee on International Economics and Development Studies of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is teaching international economics, interna- tional trade, international finances, international factor movements. He has exten- sively published in recent years about international capital movements, global fi- nancial imbalances, the IMF reform, FDI in transition and the Hungarian privatisation process. Selected publications include: European Reunification in the Age of Global Networks (editor - co-editor: Albert Bressand), Prométhée - In- stitute for World Economics, Paris - Budapest, 1 992; Reinforcing the Moderniza- tion Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary (co-authors: Magdolna Sass, Andrea Szalavetz), Working Papers No 62, Institute for World Economics, Buda-
pest, 1996; Evolution of the Hungarian Economy 1848-2000, Vol. III. Hungary: from Transition to Integration, Social Science Monograph, Boulder, CO: Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc. - Highland Lakes, NJ, 2001 (editor - co-editor: Gabor Karsai); Foreign Direct Investment after 2001 : the End of an Era? Develop- ment and Finance, 2004 (1); IMF' 2006: Real Reforms? Finance and Develop- ment, 2006 (4). E-mail: [email protected]
Anita Derecskei (30) received her degree from the University of West Hungary at the Faculty of Economics, majoring in the fields of marketing and international communication (2002). She studied psychology at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities. From 2002 she is an Assistant Lecturer of Economics at
Budapest Tech Keleti Károly Faculty of Economics. She is a PhD student in the field of Economic Psychology at the Doctoral School of Economics, at the Fac-
ulty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Szeged. Her research is focused on creativity and innovation in the business activities and her
fields of interest are those psychological and environmental factors which support creativity. She published several articles in foreign languages and in Hungarian and is co-author of a microeconomics exercise book. E-mail: [email protected]
Balázs Hámori (62) got his first degree in economics from Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (Budapest, Hungary, currently Corvinus University of Bu- dapest) in 1969 and his PhD in economics from the Hungarian Academy of Sci- ences in 1985. He was participating in different postgraduate programs in man- agement and economics at Indiana University (US), Purdue University (US) and Washington University (St. Louis, US), University of Tuebingen (Germany) and University of Bamberg (Germany). He has been a Professor of Economics at his Alma Mater. At present he is serving as Head of Department for Comparative Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest. He was General Director of Man- agement Development Center of the University of Economic Sciences for more than a decade, also Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Vice Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of the same university. He was also serving as Visiting Professor or Visiting Research Fellow at Purdue University, (West Lafayette, IN), Purdue Uni- versity North Central (Westville, IN), Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), University of Redlands (CA). He has published 7 books and 150 articles, research papers, etc. During the past few years his main area of studies has been behavioral economics. E-mail: [email protected]
Hilda Hurta (29) is a PhD student of the Doctoral School of Management and Business Administration Sciences, Szent István University, Gödöllö. She is a member of the Department of Economics and she is also member of NKFP Nr. 5/049/2004 research project entitled: "The individual, social, institutional pre- mises of competitiveness" and the sub-theme is "Competitive spirit and market economy: macro- and microeconomic effects". Her research is focused on factors of economic competitiveness of firms. E-mail: [email protected]
János Kornai (79) is Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University, Permanent Fellow Emeritus of Collegium Budapest Institute for Ad- vanced Study, and Distinguished Research Fellow at Central European Univer- sity in Budapest. He is a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy and Foreign Member of the American, British, Swedish, Finnish and Russian Academies. He served as President of the Econometric Soci- ety, of the European Economic Association, and of the International Economic
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Association. He has received the highest Hungarian prizes for scholarship, as well as the Seidman Award (USA), and the Humboldt Prize (Germany). He has also become Officer of the Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (France). Among János Kornai's best known works are Overcentralization in Economic Adminis- tration (1957), Anti-Equilibrium (1971), Economics of Shortage (1980), The Road to a Free Economy ( 1 990), The Socialist System - The Political Economy of Communism (1992), Highway and Byways (1995), Struggle and Hope (1997), Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition (co-author Karen Eggleston, 2001), which have been translated into more than 20 languages. His autobiography that came out in Hungarian in 2005 was published in English by MIT Press at the end of 2006 under the title By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey and appeared also in Japanese, Russian and Polish. His latest collection of essays, From Socialism to Capitalism (CEU Press) came out in May 2008. E-mail: [email protected]
Deniz Bingol McDonald (30) after receiving her Master's degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and structural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey, in Central European Univer- sity, Budapest. She published in Millennium and European Journal of Public Pol- icy on civil society - state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate countries. Her other research interest include political economy of property rights reform, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession coun- tries in Central and Eastern Europe. E-mail: [email protected]
Bálint Menyhért (26) graduated with a Master's degree in economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2006. As an award recipient of the Hun- garian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, he spent 2007 at the Research De- partments of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and New York as a visiting scholar, focusing on New-Keynesian inflation dynamics and DSGE modeling. He is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2008. E-mail: [email protected]
Gábor Schneider (29) is an economist, graduated at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Faculty of International Relations). Since 2003 he has been a PhD can- didate at Corvinus University at the Doctoral School of Applied Political Sci- ences. From August 2006 till July 2007 he spent one year in Germany as a Robert Bosch scholar, and studied the German public administration system and the em- powerment of metropolitan regions. His research theme is the competitiveness of
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metropolitan regions in Central Europe. He is a founder of the Local and Regional Monitoring Institute. E-mail: [email protected]
Katalin Szabó (64) is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Compara- tive Economics of the Corvinus University of Budapest. She also serves as Edi- tor-in-Chief at Kozgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review), the main Hungarian periodical in the field of economics. She is a consulting member of the Depart- ment of Economic and Legal Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Editorial Board member of several scientific journals. She was serving $s Vis- iting Research Fellow and Guest Professor at several American univiersities. Her research is focused on competence based theory of firm and learning and unlearn- ing processes in the information economy. She published thirteen books, among them A posztmodern vállalat (Post-modern Company, 2000), and Információ- gazdaság. Digitalis kapitalizmus vagy új gazdasági rendszer? (Information Economy, Digital Capitalism or New Economic System? 2006). She also pub- lished more than 300 book chapters, articles and research papers. E-mail: [email protected]
György Szakolczai (80) CSc, Dr. habil. from the Corvinus University of Eco- nomics in Budapest. Former Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Budapest. Former Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Princeton University. Professor Emeritus. Teaching now at the Bu- dapest College of Management. He has published extensively on theoretical and applied macroeconomics and economic policy. E-mail: [email protected]
JózsefSzuper (26) is a PhD candidate at the Regional Policy and Economics Doc- toral School, University of Pecs. He graduated at the Corvinus University of Bu- dapest, Faculty of Public Administration and at the University of Pecs, Faculty of Law. He is coordinator of national and international research projects and lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is a founder of the Local and Regional Monitoring Institute. E-mail: [email protected]
Attila Török (52) currently managing partner of Deori Trade&Services, is active mostly in international trading and international consultancy. 1980-1992: Hun- garian Ministry of Foreign Trade and successor institutions in Budapest and in Is- tanbul, Turkey. 1993-1996: helps to set up Mehib, the Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Agency. 1996-1999: EU Phare Multicountry Programme, project man-
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ager for trade finance in transition economies. Publications on Balkans & Turkey, trade finance and business ethics. His latest book: Üzleti etika (Business Ethics), Budapest: Századvég, 1st ed. 2002, 2nd ed. 2004. E-mail: [email protected]
László Tóth (34) completed his college education in the USA. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Hawaii Pacific University (in 1999), majoring in the fields of finance and international business. He also obtained an MBA degree from Hawaii Pacific University (in 2000) with a concentration on finance. In 2008 he is at the stage of completing his PhD studies in the field of Economic Psychol- ogy at the Doctoral School of Economics, at the Faculty of Economics and Busi- ness Administration of the University of Szeged. From 2001 to 2004, he was a re- search assistant at the Department of Economics of the University of Debrecen. From 2005 to 2007 he was a research fellow at the Department of Comparative Economics of Corvinus University of Budapest. His main research interest is in examining the effects of those psychological factors - such as trust and envy - that can influence the economic success of transition economies. E-mail: [email protected]
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