March 23, 2012

Office Contact Information:

Current Positions:

• Assistant Professor, Central European University, Department of Economics, Aug 2008-
• Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies, Jan 2012-
• Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Sep 2008-
• Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research, July 2008-

Personal Information:

Date of birth: 1976. Male. Hungarian citizen.

Education:

• Harvard University, 2000 to 2005. Ph.D. in Economics

• Central European University, 1999 to 2000. M.A. in Economics (with distinction)
• Budapest University of Economics, 1994 to 1999. M.Sc. in Economics (with distinction)

Research and Teaching Interests:

international trade, growth and development

Publications:

1. Koren, Miklós and Silvana Tenreyro. 2012. "Technological Diversification." American Economic Review. Forthcoming.
2. Békés, Gábor, László Halpern, Miklós Koren and Balázs Muraközy. 2011. "Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis - The third EFIGE policy report." Bruegel Blueprint Series, Vol. XV.
3. Koren, Miklós and Silvana Tenreyro. 2011 ."Volatility, diversification and development in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries." In David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds), The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, Chapter 9, Routledge.
4. Koren, Miklós and Silvana Tenreyro. 2007. "Volatility and Development." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(1): 243-287.
5. Halpern, László and Miklós Koren. 2007. "Pricing to Firm: An Analysis of Firm- and Product-Level Import Prices." Review of International Economics, 15(3).
6. Halpern, László, Miklós Koren, Gábor Kőrösi and János Vincze. 2004. "Fiscal Effects of the Minimum Wage." Közgazdasági Szemle, 51(4):325-345. (in Hungarian)
7. Koren, Miklós. 2001. "Employment Response to Real Exchange Rate Movements: Evidence from Hungarian Exporting Firms." Hungarian Statistical Review, 79(S6): 24-44.

Working Papers:

1. "Imported Inputs and Productivity" (2011, with László Halpern and Adam Szeidl). Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.
2. "Machines and Machinists: The Effect of Imported Capital on Wage Inequality" (2011, with Márton Csillag). Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.
3. "Administrative Barriers and the Lumpiness of Trade" (2011, with Cecília Hornok)
4. "Diversification through Trade" (2011, with Francesco Caselli, Milan Lisicky, and Silvana Tenreyro)
5. "A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade" (2010, with Roc Armenter). Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.
6. "Economies of Scale and the Size of Exporters" (2009, with Roc Armenter)
7. "A Spatial Explanation for the Balassa-Samuelson Effect" (2008, with Péter Karádi)

Work in Progress:

1. "Technology Transfer through Capital Imports" (with László Halpern, Cecília Hornok and Adam Szeidl)
2. "Everything All the Time? Re-evaluating the Gains from Variety" (with Roc Armenter)
3. "Cattle, Steaks and Restaurants: Development Accounting when Space Matters" (with Péter Karádi)
4. "Are Big Firms Born or Grown?" (with Rebecca Hellerstein)
5. "Exports as Rare Events" (with Roc Armenter)
6. "Borders" (with Roc Armenter and Dávid Krisztián Nagy)

Teaching Experience:

• Economics of Trade Policy (graduate), Central European University, 2011-.
• International Trade (graduate), Central European University, 2009-.
• Macroeconomics (graduate), Central European University, 2008-2009. Best Teacher Award 2010. Harvard University (teaching fellow), 2002-2003.
• Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Rajk László College, 1998-2000
• Introduction to Investments (undergraduate), Harvard University (teaching fellow), 1998-2000.

Research Experience:

• Central European University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor. Aug 2008-present
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Research Fellow. Sep 2008-present
• Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research Affiliate. July 2008-present
• Princeton University, Department of Economics, Peter B. Kenen Research Fellow. 2007-2008.
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York, International Research Function, Economist. 2005-2007.
• Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Department, Visiting Scholar. 2004
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Junior Research Fellow. 2005.
• International Monetary Fund, Research Department, Summer Intern. 2002.

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships:

• Best Teacher Award, Central European University, 2009-2010.
• Best paper on "Frontier and Newly Emerging Economies", Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade. 2009.
• Peter B. Kenen Fellowship, Princeton University. 2007-2008.
• Herrnstein Prize for Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University. 2005.
• Young Economist Award, European Economic Association. 2002, 2004.
• Lamfalussy Research Fellowship, European Central Bank. 2004.
• Harvard University Scholarship and Dillon Fellowship Fund, Harvard University. 2002-2004.
• Heller Farkas Award for Academic Excellence, Rajk László College. 1999.

Recent Conference and Seminar Presentations:

2011

CEPR ERWIT. OxCarre Annual Conference. SED. University of Edinburgh. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. University of Alincante. LSE. University of Oxford. Collegio Carlo Alberto.

2010

LSE, Nottingham GEP, Geneva Graduate Institute, University of Vienna, University of Valencia, Uppsala Trade Workshop. CERGE-EI. CEPR Workshop on International Risk Sharing. University of Oslo. Ludwig Maximilians University. Stockholm University. Stockholm School of Economics.

2009

University of Essex. Institute for International Economic Studies. Paris School of Economics. CEU. CEPR ESSIM. IEHAS. CEPR ERWIT. SED (invited). SCIFI-GLOW Workshop. CEPR ESSLE. MIT. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. EIIT (Best paper on "Frontier and Newly Emerging Economies").

Conference Organization:

• Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, Regional Consultant, 2012-
• President of the Hungarian Soceity for Economics. Organizing the annual conference 2009-2010.
• Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data. Session on "Firm-Level Trade Dynamics", 2008.
• American Economic Association Meeting. Session on "The Macroeconomic Implications of Risk Sharing" (co-organized with Borja Larrain), 2007.

Recent Grants:

• "European Firms In a Global Economy: Internal policies for external Competitiveness" (EFIGE). European Commission FP7 (SSH-2007-1.2-01) Project No 225551. Research partner, 2008-2012
• "SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World" (SCIFIGLOW). European Commission FP7 (SSH-2007-1.1.3) Project No 217436. Research partner, 2008-2012
• "Productivity Spillover Through Trading Products". Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA T/17/048444). Research partner, 2005-2008

Professional Service:

• President of the Hungarian Society for Economics, 2009-2010.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies, Jan 2012-
• Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, Regional Consultant, Jan 2012-

Refeere for:

American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, International Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics of Transition, Közgazdasági Szemle, National Science Foundation, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Current Issues of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Journal of Development Economics, GDN Regional Research Competition, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv