Events


KTI seminar

11/08/2018

Lecture:

Koren Miklós

Expatriate Managers and Firm Performance

Better managed firms are more productive. So are foreign owned firms. Using exhaustive administrative data from Hungary 1992–2014, we study the performance of firms led by expatriate managers. Studying more than 2,000 foreign acquisitions, we compare firms that bring in foreign management to those that remain locally managed. Foreign managed firms increase their productivity faster. Larger, more capital intensive and more productive firms are more likely to receive a foreign manager. Owners from distant countries and tax havens are more likely to leave domestic management in place. Our study can help understand the modes of foreign investment and provide a link between foreign ownership and management practices.


Helyszín: MTA HTK 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4. Ground Floor room K 11-12

Economics with policy - international seminar series

11/12/2018

Lecture:

Maite Alguacil /Universitat Jaume I/

The Impact of Immigrant Diversity on Wages. The Spanish Experience

Abstract

The massive waves of migration that have emerged as part of the recent globalization process have attracted increasing attention in the field of economic geography. Traditionally, empirical research on this issue has focused on the possible substitution effect between native and foreign workers in the labour market. However, this evaluation omits the potential positive spillovers derived from a greater cultural diversity related to immigration. The aim of this work is to fill this gap by analysing the impact that immigrant diversity has on wages in Spain. To do so, we built three different indexes that measure cultural diversity across the Spanish regions. We control for the problem of potential simultaneity between migration and wages using instrumental variable techniques. We also consider the role of the increasing entry of foreigners coming from developed economies and other local factors. The results confirm that a greater diversity of immigrants' birthplaces is associated with higher wages for both natives and the total population. Moreover, our findings reveal the importance of skilled labour (national or foreign), to encourage workers' productivity and to ensure sustainable economic development.


Helyszín: MTA Research House, conference room nr. K13-14, ground floor, 4 Tóth Kálmán street, 1097 Budapest

Economics with policy - international seminar - David Garcia

11/15/2018

David Garcia /Complexity Science Hub Vienna/


Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of people from being present online. Online social media, in particular, are prone to gender inequality, an important issue given the link between social media use and employment.  Understanding gender inequality in social media is a challenging task due to the necessity of data sources that can provide large-scale measurements across multiple countries. Here, we show how the Facebook Gender Divide (FGD), a metric based on aggregated statistics of more than 1.4 billion users in 217  countries, explains various aspects of worldwide gender inequality. Our analysis shows that the FGD encodes gender equality indices in education, health, and economic opportunity. We find gender differences in network externalities that suggest that using social media has an added value for women. Furthermore, we find that low values of the FGD are associated with increases in economic gender equality. Our results suggest that online social networks, while suffering evident gender imbalance, may lower the barriers that women have to access to informational resources and help to narrow the economic gender gap.


Helyszín: MTA Research House, conference room nr. K11-12, ground floor, 4 Tóth Kálmán street, 1097 Budapest

FDI workshop 2018

11/21/2018

Program:

8.55-9.00 Opening

9.00 - 10.00 Szász Levente, Horváth Réka, Csíki Ottó (Babes-Bolyai University): A study of location decision factors in the European automotive industry

10.00 -10.15 Coffee break

10.15 - 11.15 Antalóczy Katalin (BGE), Gáspár Tamás (BGE), Sass Magdolna (MTA KRTK KTI and BGE): The specialties of the international pharmaceutical value chain: the case of Hungary

11.15 – 12.15 Gál Zoltán (MTA KRTK RKK and Kaposvar University): Role of FDI in growth and development: implications of regional disparities

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.00 Szász Levente, Rácz Béla-Gergely, Anca Borza, Benedek Botond (Babes-Bolyai University): A comparative study of multinational subsidiaries and local companies in emerging economies: a manufacturing practice approach

14.00 – 15.00 Baranyai Ticián, Kozma Miklós (Corvinus  University): The laggard predecessor and the progressive successor? The analysis of the impact of the change of generations on the internationalisation of family firms

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 16.15 Éltető Andrea (MTA KRTK VGI): Exports as a way of internationalisation of Hungarian SMEs – results of a questionnaire survey

16.15 – 17.30 Workshop closing remarks, discussion on publication opportunities


Helyszín: MTA Research House, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4. block ″B″ 3rd floor, meeting room nr. 315

International Conference on Education Economics

11/21/2018 - 11/23/2018

International Conference on Education Economics – EDEN final conference

Venue

 

The event is hosted by the Center for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, within the new Research Building of Human Sciences (MTA Humán Tudományok Kutatóháza) located at Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4, 1097. Hungary   (see map).

 

Schedule

 

November 21, 2018.

 

9:00-9:30: Registration and coffee

 

9:30-9:45: Welcome

 

9:45-10:45: Keynote: Lex Borghans, (Maastricht University) “The economics of the curriculum”

 

10:45-11:00: Room change

 

11:00-12:30: Session 1

 

12:30-14:00: Lunch

 

14:00-15:30: Session 2

 

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

 

16:00-17:00: Session 3

 

17:00-19:00: Reception with light snacks

 

November 22, 2018.

 

9:00-10:30: Session 4

 

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

 

11:00-12:30: Session 5

 

12:30-14:00: Lunch

 

14:00-15:30: Session 6

 

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

 

16:00-17:00: Session 7

 

19:00-22:00: Conference dinner (location: Prestige boat, Jászai Mari square, dock 9.)

 

November 23, 2018.

 

9:30-11:00: Session 8

 

11:00-11:30: Coffee break

 

11:30-12:30: Keynote: Daniele Checchi, (University of Milan) “The long term evolution of inequality of opportunity”

 

12:30-12:45: Farewell

 

12:45-14:00: Lunch and goodbye

 


Parallel Sessions

 

Nov. 21. Wednesday

 

11:00-12:30
Session 1A Session 1B
School setting and child outcomes Student characteristics
Bernhofer Juliana, Mirco Tonin

The Effect of the Language of Instruction on Academic Performance

Sergio Longobardi , Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Andrea Regoli

A quasi-experimental approach to assess the effect of experiences with money on the students’ financial literacy in OECD countries

Emily M McDool

Class Setting and Children’s Non-Cognitive Outcomes

Kenneth De Beckker, Kristof De Witte, Geert Van Campenhouta

A cultural explanation of cross country differences in financial literacy

Anna Lovász,Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska,Mariann Rigó,Ágnes Szabó-Morvai

Gender differences in the effect of subjective feedback

Melvin Vooren

Which students succeed in IT education?

14:00-15:30
Session 2A Session 2B
Teaching Firms/skill demand
Ryuichi Tanaka, Koichi Ushijima, Haruko Noguchi, Akira Kawamura, Shun-ichiro Bessho

Do Teachers Matter for Academic Achievement of Students? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Melline Somers, Sofie Cabus

The Changing Demand for Skills in The Netherlands

Fritz Schiltz, Deni Mazrekaj, Daniel Horn, and Kristof De Witte

The Effect of High Achieving Peers Leaving The Class:
Evidence From Hungary

Pusterla Filippo

The complementarity effects of organizational capital and vocational education

Chris van Klaveren, Ilja Cornelisz

Teacher Discretion in Grading Standardized Exams: Stakes and Information in Dutch Secondary Education

Sofie Cabus, Eszter Nagy

Performance of Hungarian firms: are apprentices an asset or a liability? Evidence from a unique matched employer-employee dataset

16:00-17:00
Session 3A Session 3B
Teaching technologies School characteristic effects
Nathalie Lenoir, Christophe Bontemps

What can learners’ paths teach us about MOOCs?

Thomas Wouters, Zoltán Hermann, Carla Haelermans

Demand for secondary school characteristics – Evidence from school choice data in Hungary

Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti, Giovanni Azzone

Assessing the Effect of Massive Open Online Courses as Remedial Courses in Higher Education

Koen Declercq, Sofie Cabus, Kristof De Witte

The transition from vocational secondary education to professional higher education in the Netherlands

 

Nov. 22. Thursday

 

9:00-10:30
Session 4A Session 4B
Parents and child outcomes Mobility/transfers
Montezuma B. G. Dumangane, Luisa Ara ́ujo, Patricia Costa, Nuno Crato

Early Parental Reading or Reading for Pleasure: what matters most for boys and girls?

Antonio Di Paolo, Lorenzo  Cappellari, Ramon  Caminal

Linguistic skills  and  the  intergenerational  transmission  of  language

Julia Sonnenburg, Carolin Fritzsche

Does Home Ownership by Parents have an Impact on their Children’s Educational Attainment? – Evidence from Germany

Lauren McInally

Geographical Mobility in Higher Education

Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof De Witte, Sofie Cabus

School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech, Eva de la Torre

Exploring technology transfer patterns among Spanish universities

11:00-12:30
Session 5A Session 5B
Student outcomes Student aspirations
Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet, Ruben Van Assche

The impact of additional funds for schools with disadvantaged pupils: A regression discontinuity design

Heß Pascal, Silke Anger, Max Kunaschk

Minimum Wages and Teenagers’ Educational Aspirations

Giovanna D’Inverno, Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet

The effect of additional resources for disadvantaged students: Evidence from a conditional efficiency model

Arthur-Felix Sawadogo

Analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurial intention: the case of Burkina Faso

Jose Manuel Cordero Ferrera,Víctor Cristóbal, María Gil

Teaching strategies and their effect on student achievement: A cross-country study using data from PISA 2015

Luis Díaz Serrano, Alexandrina P. Stoyanova

Is there a Link between Body Mass Index, Students’ Expectations and Cognitive Achievement?

14:00-15:30
Session 6A Session 6B
Early childhood effects Methodology
Tamás Hajdu, Gábor Kertesi and Gábor Kézdi

Health Differences at Birth between Roma and Non-Roma Children in Hungary Long-Run Trends and Decompositions

Chiara Masci

EM algorithm for non-parametric mixed-effects models. An application to INVALSI data for unsupervised classification of Italian schools.

Dániel Horn, Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, Anna Lovász, Kristof De Witte

Human Capital Effects of Kindergarten and School Enrolment Timing

Jose Manuel Cordero Ferrera, Juan Aparicioa, Lidia Ortiza

How to deal with plausible values in efficiency analysis with international large-scale assessment data

Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, Anna Lovász

Childcare and Maternal Labor Supply – a Cross-Country Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Estimates from 7 Countries

Gabriela Sicilia, Daniel Santin

Beyond the average treatment effect: using production frontiers to evaluate RCTs in education

16:00-17:00
Session 7A Session 7B
School-career transition factors Educational system performance
Alessia Matano, Di Paolo A.

The impact of working while studying on the academic and labour market performance of graduates: the joint role of work intensity and job-field match

Rosa Simancas Rodríguez, Cristina Polo, Gabriela Sicilia

Equity and Efficiency in the Spanish Educational System: Regional Comparison Based on PISA 2015

Ines Albandea

The Employer Perception of Non-linear Educational Pathways A Vignette Study with French Employers

Alice Bertoletti,          Tommaso Agasisti

Analysing the determinants of Higher Education Systems’ performance in a multidimensional perspective – a Structural Equation Modelling approach

 

Nov. 23. Friday

 

Nov23  
9:30-11:00
Session 8A Session 8B
School segregation Cross country analyses
Thomas Wouters

Freedom of school choice vs diversity

Daniel Santin, Juan Aparicio,  Sergio Perelman

Comparing the Evolution of Productivity Gaps in Education with PISA: The case of Latin-American countries

Carlos Roberto Azzoni , Gabriel Leite, Fernanda Gonçalves De La Fuente Estevan

Estimating the returns to higher education selectivity in Brazil

Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent,Tommaso Agasisti

Cross-country analysis of higher education institutions’ efficiency: The role of strategic positioning

Sóvágó Sándor, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw

Identifying the sources of school segregation

Audrone Jakaitienė, Antanas Žilinskas, Dovilė Stumbrienė

Analysis of Education Systems Performance in European Countries: PCA-DEA approach


Helyszín: Center for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Building of Human Sciences (MTA Humán Tudományok Kutatóháza) Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4, 1097 Hungary

4th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC) Uneven Development, Inequalities and the State

11/29/2018 - 11/30/2018

4th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC)

Uneven Development, Inequalities and the State

Deadline for abstract submission: July 31, 2018 >>> Call for papers

The SVOC2018 conference is organized by the Institute of World Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Center for European Neighborhood Studies, Central European University.
Organization leads: Zsófia Naszádos and Tamás Gerőcs
Official conference e-mail: svoc.conf@krtk.mta.hu

Important Dates

Deadline for abstract submission: July 31, 2018

Notification of acceptance: Aug 15, 2018

Payment of Conference Fees: October 31, 2018

Full paper submission: October 31, 2018

We now welcome proposals for individual papers relating to any of the conference themes.

Please note that this year we will be using the Easychair conference system for abstract submissions. The Easychair website for the SVOC2018 conference is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svoc2018   where you will be asked to register with a valid email address and a password. The final deadline for abstract submissions will be July 31, 2018. 

Conference fee includes access to the Conference, Conference lunches, Conference breaks and Conference dinner.

Registration fees (if paid after September 30, 2018): 140 euros

Early bird (if paid before September 29, 2018): 100 euros

Reduced registration fees (for PhD students if paid before September 29, 2018): 60 euros

Reduced registration fees (for PhD students if paid after September 30, 2018): 80 euros

Fees can be paid only by bank transfer.


Helyszín: Central European University Nádor u. 9, Budapest, H-1051, Hungary

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