Magdolna Sass

Personal details

Position: director
Phone: +36303974994
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Fields of research

Foreign direct investments and foreign trade in East-Central Europe with special attention to Hungary, and related economic policy issues. Internationalisation of firms. Outward FDI from Hungary and the Visegrad countries. Internationalisation of Hungarian companies. Emerging multinationals. Post-transition multinationals. The local impact of FDI in Hungary, the impact of FDI on the host economy.

Education and degrees

1999	Ph.D. in Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
October 1996 - May 1997	Research Fee Studies in Economics at the London School of Economics
July 1995	Summer Course in the London School of Economics in Econometrics
July 1993	Summer Course in the London School of Economics in Economics of Transition
1984 - 1990	Rajk Laszlo College for Advanced Studies, Budapest
1983 - 1988	Budapest University of Economics, MSc in International Trade and Sociology

Work experience

2020 -	Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics director
1996 - 2020	Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences research fellow 1996-2000, senior research fellow since 2000; head of the FDI research group since 2013
2016 -	Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences part-time lecturer
2005 -	ICEG European Center, Budapest, Hungary external research fellow
1997 - 2000	OECD, Paris, France analyst
1996 - 1997	Figyelő (Hungarian economic weekly) columnist
1988 - 1996	Institute for World Economics of the HAS, Budapest, Hungary research fellow

Awards

1993, 1995 2001-2003	Junior Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Language skills

Hungarian (mother tongue)
English (C2, Cambridge Proficiency Exam, Grade A)
French (C1, DALF)
Russian (C1, Hungarian State Exam)
Italian (C1, ECL)
German (C1, ECL)

Selected publications

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