Research

Selected publications

• The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary (joint with Tom Pepinsky and Krisztina Szabó). Perspectives on Politics (April 2024). Earlier WP version.

• Pension Inequalities in Hungary (joint with András Simonovits). Hungarian Labor Market Yearbook 2023, Chapter 9.

• Aging and Pension Systems (joint with András Simonovits). Emerging European Economies after the Pandemic: Stuck in the Middle Income Trap? Ed: Laszlo Matyas, Springer ISSN 2197-7178, February 2022, Chapter 9, pp. 415-464.

• Menu Costs, Aggregate Fluctuations, and Large Shocks (joint with Peter Karadi). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 11, 3 (July 2019), pp. 111-46.

• Price setting in Hungary - a store-level analysis (joint with Peter Gabriel). Managerial and Decision Economics 31, 2-3 (March 2010), pp. 161-76 (special issue on price setting).

Work in progress

• When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Candidates? Evidence from Hungary (joint with Krisztina Szabó and Joost van Spanje)

• New Parties and Their Media Coverage: an Experimental Study of Media Practitioners in Italy (joint with Krisztina Szabó, Joost van Spanje and Alessio Scopelliti)

• How Do Policies Affect the Public? The Importance of Fidesz Subsidies on Political Support (joint with Tom Pepinsky and Krisztina Szabó).

• The Effect of the Hungarian Vilage Program on Vote Share in Hungary (joint with Krisztina Szabó).

• How Do Citizens Respond Politically to the Local Economy? Evidence from Hungarian Administrative and Survey Data (joint with Krisztina Szabó).

Working papers

• Income Tax Evasion Estimation in Hungary (joint with Palma Filep-Mosberger). MNB Working Paper 2022/4 (May 2022).

• A Long-Term Evaluation of Recent Hungarian Pension Reforms (joint with Christoph Freudenberg and Tamás Berki). MNB Working Paper 2016/2 (July 2016). (Online Appendix)

• Menu costs, aggregate fluctuations, and large shocks (joint with Peter Karadi). CEPR Discussion Paper 10138 (September 2014).

• Earlier version: Large shocks in menu cost models (joint with Peter Karadi). ECB Working Paper 1453 (July 2012). 

• Within and cross-country price dispersion in the Euro area (joint with Fabio Rumler). ECB Working Paper 1742 (November 2014).

• Sticky price inflation index: an alternative core inflation measure (joint with Judit Várhegyi). MNB Working Paper 2013/2 (June 2013).

• Inflation asymmetry, menu costs and aggregation bias - a further case for state-dependent pricing (joint with Peter Karadi). MNB Working Paper 2010/3 (April 2010).

• Firm-level adjustment costs and aggregate investment dynamics - estimation on Hungarian data. MNB Working Paper 2010/2 (April 2010).

•  Can business confidence indicators be useful to predict short-term industrial growth in Hungary? MNB Background Studies 2002/3 (joint with Gabor Pula).

Earlier work

• The geography of consumer prices (joint with Attila Ratfai).

•  Estimating the extent of price stickiness in Hungary: a hazard-based approach (joint with Peter Gabriel).

•  The costs of investment.

Conference presentations and seminars

• EEA-ESEM Annual Congress: 2014 (Toulouse), 2013 (Gothenburg), 2011 (Oslo), 2010 (Glasgow), 2009 (Barcelona), 2008 (Milan), 2007 (Budapest)

• Bundesbank seminar: 2013 November

• Computing in Economics and Finance: 2013 (Vancouver)

• SED Annual Congress: 2012 (Limassol), 2009 (Istanbul)

• Midwest Macro Meeting: 2011 (Nashville)

• AEA Annual Congress: 2020 (San Diego), 2016 (Boston), 2010 (Atlanta)

• Banque de France workshop on price setting: 2009 (Paris)

• SOEGW workshop: 2008 (Waterloo)

• Rimini Macro Workshop on pirce setting: 2007 (Rimini)

• Bundesbank workshop on price setting: 2007 (Frankfurt)