Research interests

Macroeconomics: aggregate productivity, firm-level productivity, firm dynamics, input market frictions, factor adjustment

Econometrics: microeconometrics, Bayesian econometrics, time-series and state-space models

Current Position

2013 - present     Economist at the Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau 

2018 - present     Senior Data Scientist at New Light Technologies

Previous Positions

2011-2012      Economist, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

2002-2006      Senior economist, National Bank of Hungary

1999-2002      Economist, Monetary Policy Department, National Bank of Hungary 

Education

2008-2011    Ph. D. in Economics, advisor: Eric J. Bartelsman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2006-2008    M.Phil. in Econometrics and Macroeconomics, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam

1993-1999    MSc. in Economics, Finance major, Budapest University of Economic Sciences           

Recent Conference Appearances

2024       Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

2024       Society for Government Economists

2022       American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings

2022       CRIW: Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth

2021       Conference on Firm Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy 

2020       EEA Meetings 

2020       Conference on Firm Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy

2020       AEA/ASSA Meetings

2019       CRIW: Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth

2019       Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

2019       AEA/ASSA Meetings

2018       SEA Meetings 

2018       GMU Labor Seminar 

2017       CRIW: Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century

2016       SEA Meetings

2016       ECB-CompNet Meeting

2016       AEA/ASSA Meetings

2015       NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop

Referee/Reviewer

Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Labour Economics, European Economic Review, Regional Studies, Journal of Business Cycle Research, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of the European Economic Association

Teaching

2008-2010  Intermediate Macroeconomics, VU University Amsterdam 

                   Advanced Macroeconomics, VU University Amsterdam

2009-2010  Intermediate Macroeconomics, VU University Amsterdam

2010           Introduction to Economics, VU University Amsterdam

2003           Introduction to Econometrics, Budapest University of Economics