Welcome

I work as senior researcher at the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences where I serve as the head of the Department of Macro-Financial Analysis. I also work as associate professor at the Institute of Economics (Commenius University in Bratislava). My key areas of research include topics from empirical monetary economics, international finance with special focus on capital flows and macroeconomic imbalances, and financial geography issues.  Articles which I co-authored were published in several notable field journals including Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Review of International Economics or European Financial Management. As a researcher I have participated at several national (APVV, VEGA) and international research projects (Horizon 2020, GACR Czechia, NSC Poland, COST Action).  I offer my expertise pro bono as the senior research consultant for the quant finance Quantpedia team.

News

Article linking behaviour of net errors and omissions to external sustainability of EU countries published in IE.

Article on central bank communication in twelve European inflation targeters (excluding the Euro Area) forthcoming in EEE.

Article  linking subjective well-being and experienced inflation in EU countries forthcoming in Economics Letters. This article was selected by the Institute of Economic Research as one of the best publications of the year 2023.

Chapter (commentary) on monetary policy-related issues and Slovak banking sector in year 2022 - part of regular book series "Slovak Development in year ..." published by IER SAS.

Conditionality of IRPT in EA on long-term income inequality explored in Article forthcoming in Economic Modelling. New MoPTIneq ratios estimated. This article was selected by the Institute of Economic Research as one of the best publications of the year 2023.

New section on my webpage - databases constructed with my co-authors as part of our research endeavours. Freely available for download.

Article on degree of commonality across financial crisis databases literature online in RIE & Article on bank de-branching in Slovakia forthcoming in EFM.

Article on determinants of the return-adjusted charge ratios calculated to compare fees and costs of pension schemes out in Finance Research Letters.

Preliminary findings from the research on bank branch network re-design supported by the RSA Membership Research Grant discussed in the RSA Blog

Article on illicit financial flows network in Europe listed among the best publications in year 2021 at the Institute of Economic Research SAS.

Chapter (commentary) on monetary policy issues and Slovak banking sector in year 2020 - part of regular book series "Slovak Development in year ..." published by IER SAS.

Article on interacted determinants of trade misinoicing forthcoming in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance..

Two working papers out - Income inequality and IRPT in EA  & 'Too-much-branching' and costs of debt of Slovak SMEs

Received the Membership Research Grant by the Regional Studies Association on research topic related to bank branch network re-design in Slovakia. 

Article on drivers of bitcoin price volatility among the most downloaded articles in the JEDC over the last 3 months and receiving attention in bitcoin community.

Article on illicit financial flows network based on NEO data accepted for publication in International Review of Economics and Finance. 

Article on effects of illicit capital flows on domestic investments forthcoming in (Ekonomický časopis) Journal of Economics, 

Article on effects of EU innovation subsidy in Slovakia awarded the best journal paper prize by the University of Economics in Bratislava for 2019.

Article on  macroeconomic news, regulation, and hacking exchange markets and bitcoin volatility accepted for publication in JEDC. 

Awarded by the 1st prize in the Young Researcher up to 35 Years Competition by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Culture for series of articles on illicit capital flows and macroeconomic imbalances. A huge thank you to all of my co-authors.

Published two chapters on Slovak banking system (historical overview, monetary policy in 2019) in Slovak - English translation in progress.

Presenting work-in-progress of ER regimes at the 13th South-Eastern European Economic Research Workshop of the Bank of Albania in December 2019.

Having the pleasure of giving a speech at the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina International Research Conference "Macroeconomic Imbalances and EU Convergence" in November 2019.

Research that I co-authored being cited by researchers from the European Central Bank (here, here), the World Bank, the European Commission or in preparatory materials for the European Parliament.

Article on IRPT in Euro Area awarded the best journal paper prize by the University of Economics in Bratislava for 2018.

Article on determinants of international currency usage  published online on the World Economy journal webpage.