CV & Research activities

Professional experience:

• 2013 – (currently): Senior Economist  (current role) at the National Bank of Hungary, Directorate of Monetary Policy and Financial Market Analysis.

• Feb. 2021 – Aug. 2021: visiting scholar,  University of New Orleans, Department of Economy and Finance

Academic experience and education:

• 2017-2024 PhD in Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science, World Economy Program. Dissertation: Monetary Policy Spillovers – The Impact of Advanced Central Banks’ Decisions on Emerging Financial Markets (https://doi.org/10.14267/phd.2024033)
  Result: PhD with Summa Cum Laude

• 2014-2016 MA in Economic Analysis, specialization in Banking and Public Finance, Corvinus University of Budapest
  Thesis: "The impact of the European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy tools on Eastern European government bond markets" in Hungarian
  http://publikaciok.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/publikus/szd/Sztano_Gabor.pdf
  Results: Excellent

• 2010-2014 BA in International Business, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

See my full CV here: 

CV

Research interest in keywords:

• monetary policy transmission and spillovers 

• communication of central banks

• global financial markets 

• emerging countries

• financial development

• digital payments