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.
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
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
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)
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)
