deputy director, senior research fellow
Short Bio
László Halpern is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest where he has been working since his graduation from Corvinus (then Karl Marx) University of Budapest in 1974. He is Research Fellow in International Macroeconomics and International Trade research programmes of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Research Fellow of the Davidson Institute (University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor), and recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University (Budapest). He is member of Academic Advisory Board of Collegium Budapest, of Scientific Committee of European Trade Study Group, and of Advisory Committee of ELTECON (Budapest). He has written widely on exchange rate theory, Central and East European exchange rate policy, macroeconomic stabilisation theory, enterprise behaviour, and international trade. He has been doing contract work for different Hungarian governmental agencies. He has participated in numerous international research projects sponsored by the Commission of the European Union.

