People

political economy, public choice, institutional economics, public policy analysis, public policy of education

• Co-founder and partner of the Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis (Since 2008 September)

• Research Fellow, Economics Department, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary  (2008-)
• Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister of Hungary on health care, education reform and selected economic issues (2007-2008)
• Resident International Scholar, Dept. of Political Science, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2005-2006)
• Co-owner and Manager, Company for Economic Strategy and Analysis, Budapest (1999-2006)
• Assistant Professor (before 2001, Instructor), Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest (1999-2005)
• Managed and carried out projects for the World Bank, diverse non-profits and the Hungarian and Georgian governments concerning Education Policy
• Research Fellow (before 2001, Junior Research Fellow), Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992-2002)

• Yale University, Ph.D. in Economics (“Essays in the Economics of Education and Non-Profits”)
• Budapest (at present: Corvinus) University of Economics, BA and MA in Mathematical Economics

• Economics and the Law of Competition (in Hungarian), Budapest: Arsenicum, 2008. With Péter Bárczy and János Vince.
• Economic Overview on Hungary, Benefits and Compensation International, 2005, January-February.
• The Changing Pattern of Scientific Degrees in Hungary after 1990: An Application of the Economic Theory of Signalling.  (in Hungarian), in: Zárva várt Nyugat, Kovács János Mátyás (ed.), Budapest: Sík, 2003, pp. 313-346. withPetra Reszkető
• Beyond Manichean Economics: Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2002 (35:1-21) with Lawrence King

Fluent in English, German, good French and Russian