About the authors
Gábor Békés
Gábor Békés is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of the Central European University and director of the MS in Business Analytics program. He is a senior fellow at KRTK and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He published in top economics journals on multinational firm activities and productivity, business clusters, and innovation spillovers. He managed international data collection projects on firm performance and supply chains. He has done both policy advising (the European Commission, ECB) as well as private sector consultancy (in finance, business intelligence and real estate). He has taught graduate-level data analysis and economic geography courses since 2012. Personal website
Selected publications
- Machine imports, technology adoption and local spillovers (with Péter Harasztosi), Review of World Economics, VOXEU column
- Measuring productivity premia with many modes of internationalization (with Balázs Muraközy), Economics Letters
- Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy (with Tommaso Aquilante, Carlo Altomonte and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano), Economic Policy, VoxEU column
- Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms (with Péter Harasztosi), Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Temporary Trade and Heterogenous Firms (with Balázs Muraközy), Journal of International Economics, VoxEU column
Gábor Kézdi
Gábor Kézdi is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. He published in top journals in economics, statistics, and political science on topics including household finances, health, education, demography, and ethnic disadvantages and prejudice. He has managed several data collection projects in Europe; currently, he is co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. He has consulted various governmental and non-governmental institutions on the disadvantage of the Roma minority and the evaluation of social interventions. He has taught data analysis, econometrics, and labor economics from undergraduate to Ph.D. levels since 2002 and supervised a number of MA and PhD students. Personal website