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Miklós Koren

Miklós Koren

Professor

Central European University, Department of Economics

DOB: 1976, Male, Hungarian citizen

Research and Teaching Interests

International trade, growth and development

“I teach reproducible research practices to economists to help them maximize their scientific impact.”

  • 2016 –

    Professor, Central European University, Department of Economics

  • 2017 –

    Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, CERS, HUN-REN

  • 2019 –

    Data Editor, Review of Economic Studies

  • 2000 – 2005

    Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics

  • 1999 – 2000

    Central European University, M.A. in Economics (with distinction)

  • 1994 – 1999

    Budapest University of Economics, M.Sc. in Economics (with distinction)

  • 2023 –

    Principal Investigator, The Macroeconomics of Managers. ERC Advanced Grant.

  • 2022 –

    Principal Investigator, The Market for Managers. Forefront Research Excellence Program (Project No. 144193).

  • 2018 –

    Team Leader, Realising Europe’s soft power in external cooperation and trade (RESPECT). European Commission Horizon 2020 (project No 770680).

  • 2015 – 2016

    Principal Investigator, Cooperation for European Research in Economics (COEURE). European Commission FP7. Survey on Trade and Development.

  • 2012 – 2017

    Principal Investigator, European Research Council Starting Grant: KNOWLEDGEFLOWS Project No. 313164.

  • 2008 – 2012

    Research Partner, European Firms In a Global Economy: Internal policies for external Competitiveness (EFIGE). European Commission FP7 (SSH-2007-1.2-01) Project No 225551.

  • 2008 – 2012

    Research Partner, SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFIGLOW). European Commission FP7 (SSH-2007-1.1.3) Project No 217436.

  • 2005 – 2008

    Research Partner, Productivity Spillover Through Trading Products. Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA T/17/048444).

  • 2021 –

    Member of the evaluating panel, IMPULZ program of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

  • 2020 – 2022

    Member of the Editorial Board, Covid Economics, Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • 2020, 2022

    Member of the evaluating panel, European Research Council, Starting Grant SH1

  • 2017 – 2021

    Member of the Council, European Economic Association

  • 2015 –

    Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics

  • 2014 – 2017

    Member of the Advisory Board of Rajk László College

  • 2012 –

    Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies

  • 2012 – 2016

    Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, Regional Consultant

  • 2009 – 2010

    President of the Hungarian Society for Economics

  • 2023 –

    Research Network Fellow, CESifo, Munich, Germany

  • 2020 –

    Ordinary Member, Academia Europaea

  • 2013 –

    Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK

  • 2008 – 2013

    Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK

  • 2016 – 2018

    Head of Department, Central European University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • 2012 – 2016

    Associate Professor, Central European University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • 2008 – 2016

    Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • 2008 – 2012

    Assistant Professor, Central European University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • 2007 – 2008

    Peter B Kenen Fellow, Princeton University, International Economics Section, Princeton, NJ

  • 2005 – 2007

    Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, International Research Function, New York, NY

  • 2005 – 2008

    Junior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • 2004

    Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Department, Boston, MA

  • 2002

    Summer Intern, International Monetary Fund, Research Department, Washington, DC

  • 2019 -

    Data Architecture for Analysts (graduate), Central European University

  • 2019

    Data Carpentry (graduate), Rajk László College, 2014-. Certified Carpentries Instructor

  • 2011 -

    Economics of Trade Policy (graduate), Central European University

  • 2009 -

    International Trade (graduate), Central European University

  • 2008 -

    Macroeconomics (graduate), Central European University

  • 2002 - 2003

    Best Teacher Award 2010. Harvard University (teaching fellow)

  • 1998 - 2000

    Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Rajk László College

  • 2003 - 2004

    Introduction to Investments (undergraduate), Harvard University (teaching fellow)

  • 2020

    Ordinary Member, Academia Europaea

  • 2014

    Nicholas Káldor Prize, Káldor Foundation

  • 2009 - 2010

    Best Teacher Award, Central European University

  • 2009

    Best paper on “Frontier and Newly Emerging Economies”, Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade

  • 2007 - 2008

    Peter B. Kenen Fellowship, Princeton University

  • 2005

    Herrnstein Prize for Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University

  • 2002, 2004

    Young Economist Award, European Economic Association

  • 2004

    Lamfalussy Research Fellowship, European Central Bank

  • 2002 - 2004

    Harvard University Scholarship and Dillon Fellowship Fund, Harvard University

  • 1999

    Heller Farkas Award for Academic Excellence, Rajk László College

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