Julius Horváth

Professor
Head of MA in Economic Policy and Global Markets program
Egyetemi tanár
Building: 
Nador u. 11
Room: 
601/b
Phone number: 
+36 1 327-3248
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Qualifications: 
PhD, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Julius Horvath is Professor at the CEU from 2005, and Hungarian University Professor from 2009. He is a former Head of Department of Economics (2006-2011) and Department of IRES (2002-2006) at the Central European University. His main interest lies in international economic policy issues, political economy of monetary relations, and history of economic thought. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Nationalities Papers. He is a Member of the Slovak and Czech Accreditation Committees. In the academic year 2011/12 he is on sabbatical.


Projects and Grants:


“Financial Market Integration, Structural Change, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in the EU25” European Commission.

“Price Convergence in the New Member States of the European Union: the Case of Hungary and the Slovak Republic,” Global Development Network Research Project. (More info)

"Determinants of Economic Growth" in Global Development Network. (More info)

“Optimum Choice of Exchange Rate Regime for the Accession Countries: Cost and Benefit Analysis of EMU Membership,” European Commission. (More info)

List of potential supervision areas:


- political economy of economic growth in transition economies
- political economy of monetary relations
- international economic relations

 

List of theses supervised at present:


- Economic relations between South-East European country and Germany before the Second World War
- The Credit/Debt Position of the Hegemon: The Deviant Case of the United States
- Empirical Essays on Price Dispersion between Countries

 

Courses taught:

Julius Horvath is on sabbatical leave in the 2011/2012 Academic Year.

History and Theory of World Economy (Fall semester)

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Projects with involvement of Julius Horváth

Publications

Book
Book Chapter
Fidrmuc, J., M. Chandler, and J. Horváth. "Growth experience and prospects of Central and Eastern European countries : a synthesis." In Diversity in economic growth : global insights and explanations, edited by G. McMahon, L. S. Esfahani and L. Squire, 255-287. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2010.
Horváth, J.. "Choice of exchange rate regime: implications for South-East Europe." In European Economic integration and South-East Europe: challenges and prospects, edited by K. Liebscher, J. Christl, P. Mooslechner and D. Ritzberger-Grunwald, 145-154. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar, 2005.
Horváth, J.. "The Czech currency crisis of 1997." In Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, edited by M. Dabrowski, 221-234. Boston: Kluwer, 2003.
Horváth, J.. "Shocks and monetary integration efforts. An empirical assessment of Slovakia." In Proceedings from the Conference on the Anniversary of the 115th birthday of Robert Schuman. Bratislava: Ekonom Publishing House, 2002.
Horváth, J.. "Economics--Slovakia." In Three social science disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe: Handbook on economics, political science and sociology (1989-2001), edited by M. Kaase and V. Sparschuh, 168-186. Budapest: Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, 2002.
Horváth, J., R. Färe, and S. Grosskopf. "Industrial productivity growth in China: 1980-84 vs. 1984-85." In Intertemporal production frontiers : with dynamic DEA, edited by R. Färe, S. Grosskopf and R. Brännlund, 98-109. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
Conference Paper
Horváth, J., A. Rátfai, and B. Döme. "Relative price variability in two small open economies." In Proceeding of International Conference on Development Organized by the Moscow School of Economics., 2007.
Horváth, J.. "Optimal exchange rate and monetary policy when joining the (European) monetary union." In Political and Economic Consequences of the Slovak Membership in EU and EMU. Bratislava: Academia Istropolitana Nova, 2002.
Journal Article
Miscellaneous
Horváth, J.. Optimum currency area theory : a selective review. Helsinki: Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition BOFIT, 2003.
Csaba, L., J. Horváth, and A. Bródy. Competitio. Debrecen: Debreceni Egyetem Közgazdaságtudományi Kar, 2002.
Report
Thesis