
Magdolna Sass
Personal details
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 |
1996 - 2020 |
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2016 - |
Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences |
2005 - |
ICEG European Center, Budapest, Hungary |
1997 - 2000 |
OECD, Paris, France |
1996 - 1997 |
Figyelő (Hungarian economic weekly) |
1988 - 1996 |
Institute for World Economics of the HAS, Budapest, Hungary |
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)