Curriculum Vitae
I am a macroeconomist with a passion for both monetary and fiscal policy. All of the work I did during the last eleven years aimed at
supporting decision makers to adopt
well-designed and prudent policies.
Meanwhile, I obtained
work experience in several policy
institutions in Europe, partly
during my PhD studies. I am
convinced that quantitative rigor
is essential for solid policy making,
keeping in mind that what really
matters is the question and not
the tool and that there are
always constraints.
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Policy Work and Research Experience
Economist - International Monetary Fund, Institute for Capacity Development (February 2019 - Present): Customized Training: the Ministries of Finance of Georgia, Armenia and Cambodia Technical Assistance: Ministry of Finance of Israel and Central Bank of Morocco Internal Economics Training: MCD Morocco Team
Extension of pension project: APD Korea Team, EUR Slovakia Team
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PhD Trainee - European Central Bank, Directorate General Economics, Fiscal Policies Division (June - November 2018): developing a multi-country DSGE-OLG model for the euro area, which is an extension of Baksa and Munkacsi (2016a, 2016b)
Visiting Researcher - Bank of Lithuania, Applied Research Department (July - August 2017): teaching DSGE models (invited), and working on a forthcoming paper (‘More gray, more volatile? Aging and (optimal) monetary policy’)
Model developer and economic advisor - Natural Resource Governance Institute (July - November 2016): Developing a medium-scale semi-structural macroeconomic model (in Excel) for Mongolia
Junior Research Fellow – Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics (January 2016 - present): Macroeconomic research team: working on a paper ‘Interest premium and economic growth: the case of CEE’
Macroeconomic analyst, model developer - OGResearch (July 2013 - August 2015): Emerging market analysis, participating in development of Forecasting and Policy Analysis System, calibrating and applying GIMF-model (DSGE-OLG model of the IMF’s Research Department) for Morocco
Economic advisor - Fiscal Responsibility Institute Budapest (March 2011 - March 2018): Macroeconomic projections and scenario analysis for Hungary
Economist - National Bank of Hungary, Department of Economics (January 2011 - June 2013): Macroeconomic modeling team: Hungarian Forecast and Policy Analysis System (FPAS) development, Fiscal DSGE-model
Junior Economist - Office of the Fiscal Council of Hungary (July 2009 – December 2010): Macroeconomic modeling team: DSGE-modeling, forecasting, and calibrating the GIMF-model for Hungary
Trainee - National Bank of Hungary, Department of Financial Analysis (July 2008):
Collecting data
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Education
Central European University, Department of Economics and Business (2015 - 2019):
PhD in Economics
Thesis: Three Essays on Growth, Demography and Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Attila Rátfai
Grade: Summa cum laude
Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Economics (2004-2009):
Master of Economics: Macroeconomic analyst and forecaster
Applied Statistics
Thesis: Role and Possibilities of Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium Models
Grade: Excellent with honors
Teaching experience
International Monetary Fund
2019-: FPP 2.0 Pillar 3 and 4; DSGE-OLG models
GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt
2018-2019: DSGE-OLG models (invited)
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AIReF, Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility, Madrid, Spain
2018: DSGE-OLG models (invited)
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
2017-2018: Macroeconomics (BA level)
Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary
2016-2017: Open economy macroeconomics (MA level)
Central European University, Department of Economics and Business, Budapest, Hungary
2017: Data analysis (MA level, external lecturer)
2016: Macroeconomics, Data analysis (TA, MA level)
Bank of Lithuania, CEFER, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017: DSGE-OLG models (invited)
2016: DSGE-OLG models (invited)
Bank Al-Maghrib, Rabat, Morocco: IMF Technical Assistance
2014-2015: DSGE-OLG model and FPAS-model development
Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Macroeconomics, Budapest, Hungary
2014: Monetary macroeconomics (MA level)
2010: DSGE modelling (MA level)
2008 - 2011: Macroeconomics (BA level)
