
István Kőrösi
Personal details
Place of birth: Budapest
Phone: +36308487106
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Fields of research
European economic integration, European Union in the world economy
Position and role of Central Europe in the European Union
Social market economy and welfare state
Human resources, research and development, innovation and competitiveness in the European Union
Role of Germany and Austria in the European Union and in the world economy
Education and degrees
1994 Candidate of Economic Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1981 Postgraduate diplom, International expert of economics
1979-1980 University of Economics, Budapest, Institute for Postgraduate Studies
1979 University of Economics, Budapest, Dr. univ.
1977 University of Economics, Budapest, Master
1973-1977 University of Economics, Budapest, Economic Studies
Work experience
1981- Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2012- Research
Center of Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow
1998- Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Heller Farkas Institute for Economics
1977-2005 University of Economics, Corvinus, Budapest
1997-2000 University Szeged
1996-1999 College for Trade, Catering and Tourism, Budapest, Associate Professor, leader of courses
Language skills
German (state exam., high level), 1976, Russian (state exam., high level), 1977, French (state exam, medium level), 1977, English (state exam., medium level), 1983
Selected publications
Central Europe, a Sub-Region of the Continent? In: European Vision No. 39. 1995. Brussels, pp. 25-30.
Neuorientierung und Strukturwandel der ungarischen Aussenwirtschaft. In: Neuorientierung der Aussenwirtschaftsbeziehungen in Ostmitteleuropa. Marburg, Herder Institut, 1994, pp. 99-116. (New orientation and structural changes of the Hungarian foreign economy)
La Hongrie prépare son adhésion a l’Union. In: Objectif Europe. No. 31-32. 1994. Brussels, pp. 31-41. (Hungary’s preparation for the membership of the EU)
Konvergenz, Divergenz, Kooperation, Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Österreich und Ungarn. In: Europaeische Rundschau. No. 3. 1995. Vienna, pp. 67-75. (Convergence, divergence, cooperation and economic development in Austria and Hungary)
The European Union’s Influence ont he Visegrád Countries and Regional Co-operation. Budapest, IWE, 1996
Die Lage und Aussichten der Weltwirtschaft und Ungarns = Wirtschaftsnachrichten Ungarn, 1998. 5. 18-19 p. (Position and perspectives of the world economy and Hungary)
Mitteleuropa in der Weltwirtschaft – Ungarns Wachstumschancen. In: Ungarn im Transformationsprozess. Bericht über ein ifo /IfW-Symposium, das am 16./17. November 1999 in Budapest stattfand. Dresden : IFO, 2000. 25-29. p. (Central-Europe in the world economy – Hungary’s chances for the development)
R and D and competitiveness in the enlarged EU. The role of the state and financing. (IWE Working Papers, 2006. No. 172.). Budapest, MTA VKI, 2006. 21 p.
Research and development, competitiveness in the enlarged European Union, the role of the state and financing. In: Public economics and international conpetitiveness international conference, 27th October, 2005, Pazmany Peter Catholic University. Budapest, Tarsoly Kiadó, 2006. 136-151. p.
We have to fine-tune the rules on SWFs, as they’re here to stay. Commentary. Europe’s World. Brussels, Summer 2008. 41-45. p.
Growth, Financial Disequlibria, Employment and Competitiveness – Past and Future. (The Lisbon Process – In a Historical Perspective. (Heller Farkas Papers, 2009. No. 1.) Budapest, Tarsoly K., 2009. 111-132. p.
The Lisbon Agenda in a future-oriented Hungarian approach. In: Ágh, A. – Kis-Varga, J. (eds.): The global crisis and the EU responses: The perspectives of the SBF team presidency. Budapest, „Together for Europe” Research Centre, 2009. 175-204. p.
Kőrösi, István: Twenty years (1989-2009) of economic relations between Hungary and Germany – Compared to Germany’s relations with the ten new EU members states. Foreign Policy Review, 2009, Vol. 6. 53-93 p.



