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Miklós Koren

Curriculum Vitae

July 1, 2010

Office Contact Information:

Central European University
Department of Economics
1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 11., Hungary
Phone: +36 1 327 3000 (office)
Fax: +36 1 327 3232
E-mail: korenm.at.ceu.dot.hu
Website:  http://miklos.koren.hu/

Current Positions:

  • Assistant Professor, Central European University, Department of Economics, Aug 2008-
  • 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

Thesis Title: "Volatility, Development, and International Trade" Thesis Committee: Elhanan Helpman (chair), Kenneth Rogoff, John Campbell, Marc Melitz

  • 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)

Member of Rajk László College and the Invisible College.

Research and Teaching Interests:

international trade, growth and development

Publications:

  • "Volatility and Development" (with Silvana Tenreyro), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(1): 243-287, February 2007.
  • "Pricing to Firm: An Analysis of Firm- and Product-Level Import Prices" (with László Halpern), Review of International Economics, 15(3), August 2007.
  • "Fiscal Effects of the Minimum Wage" (with László Halpern, Gábor Kőrösi and János Vincze), Közgazdasági Szemle, 51(4):325-345, 2004. (in Hungarian)
  • "Employment Response to Real Exchange Rate Movements: Evidence from Hungarian Exporting Firms", Hungarian Statistical Review, 79(S6): 24-44, November 2001.

Working Papers:

  • "Imported Inputs and Productivity" (2009, with László Halpern and Adam Szeidl). Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.
  • "Technological Diversification" (2009, with Silvana Tenreyro). Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.
  • "A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade" (2008, with Roc Armenter). Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.
  • "Machines and Machinists: The Effect of Imported Capital on Wage Inequality" (2009, with Márton Csillag). Best paper on "Frontier and Newly Emerging Economies" at the EIIT.
  • "A Spatial Explanation for the Balassa-Samuelson Effect" (2008, with Péter Karádi)

Work in Progress:

  • "Administrative Barriers to Trade" (with Cecília Hornok)
  • "Diversification through Trade" (with Francesco Caselli, Milan Lisicky, and Silvana Tenreyro)
  • "Are Big Firms Born or Grown?" (with Rebecca Hellerstein)
  • "Exports as Rare Events" (with Roc Armenter)

Teaching Experience:

  • International Trade (graduate), Central European University, 2009-2010.
  • 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:

  • 2010: LSE, Nottingham GEP, Geneva Graduate Institute, University of Vienna, University of Valencia, Uppsala Trade Workshop.
  • 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").
  • 2008: CEU. UCSD. Princeton. CREI. IES Summer Workshop. 3rd International Conference on Macroeconomics (Fundacion Rafael del Pino). University of Michigan. CEPR/MNB Workshop on Productivity. University of Zurich.

Conference Organization:

  • 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:

  • "Firm Size and Firm Dynamics in the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database". Kauffman Foundation. Principal Investigator, 2008
  • "Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers in Trade Data". Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. Research Partner (Principal Investigator: László Halpern), 2005-2008
  • "The Microeconomics of Technology Spillovers". GDN Regional Research Competition. Research Partner (Principal Investigator: László Halpern), 2004

Professional Service:

  • 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
  • President of the Hungarian Society for Economics.