Ágnes Szunomár

Personal details

Position: senior research fellow, head of Research Group on Development Economics
Place of birth: Budapest
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Fields of research

Chinese economy
Chinese foreign policy and international trade and investment policy
China and Central and Eastern Europe
Chinese-Hungarian relations
Foreign direct investments and its motivations in the developing world
Middle income trap

Education and degrees

2013	Ph.D. in Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary
2006 - 2012	Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary International Relations Doctoral Programme
2004 - 2006	Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary International Studies (MA)
2002 - 2007	Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Law- Budapest, Hungary Politology (MA)
2000 - 2004	Budapest College of Management -Budapest, Hungary International Relations (BA)

Work experience

2019 - 2016 - 2018	Corvinus University of Budapest associate professor European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) scientific secretary
2014 -	Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS, Institute of World Economics head of Research Group on Development Economics
2012	European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) expert evaluator of proposals
2011 -	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences research fellow
2010 - 2011	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences junior research fellow
2004 - 2010	Secretariat of the Government Commissioner for the Development of Hungarian-Chinese Economic Relations and for the Coordination of the Participation at Shanghai World EXPO in 2010 analyst
2007 - 2008	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences research project coordinator
2004 - 2005	Hungarian National Assembly - Office for Foreign Relations, EU Departmentinternship

Awards, fellowships

2015 2018-2021	SYLFF (Sasakawa) Fellowship HAS-BOLYAI Fellowship

Language skills

English fluent
German advanced
Chinese basic

Selected publications

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Szunomár, Ágnes (ed.) (2020): Emerging-market multinational enterprises in East Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan (2020)

Szunomár, Ágnes (2020): The digital great leap forward - Mapping China's 21st Century Attempt to Create a New Growth Model. ACTA OECONOMICA Vol 70 Issue 3

Szunomár, Ágnes (2020): Chinese multinationals in East Central Europe: structural, institutional or political considerations? In: Holzmann, R; Ritzberger-Grünwald, D; Schuberth, H (ed.) 30 years of transition in Europe: looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 121-134.

Sass, M; Szunomár, Á; Gubik, A ; Kiran, S ; Ozsvald, É (2019): Employee relations at Asian subsidiaries in Hungary: Do home or host country factors dominate? INTERSECTIONS: EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS 5 : 3 pp. 23-48.

Szunomár Ágnes (2018): One Belt, One Road: Connecting China with Central and Eastern Europe? In: Cheng Y, Song L, Huang L (ed.) The Belt & Road Initiative in the Global Arena: Chinese and European Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp. 71-85.

Szunomár, Ágnes; McCaleb, A (2018): Chinese and other East Asian foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe: motives, location choices and employment approaches. CESIFO FORUM 19 : 4 pp. 9-14.

Szunomár Ágnes, Agnieszka Mccaleb, Xin Chen (2018): Economic Relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Investment Issues. In: Weiqing Song (ed.) China's relations with Central and Eastern Europe: from "old comrades" to new partners. Routledge, 2017. pp. 48-65.

Szunomár, Ágnes (2015): Blowing from the East. International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Vol. XXIV, No. 3/2015, pp. 60-78

Szunomár, Ágnes (ed.) (2014): Chinese investments and financial engagement in Visegrad countries: myth or reality? Budapest: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 178 p.

Szunomár, Ágnes (2014): China’s relations with the developing world: a new type of colonialism or a fruitful cooperation. In: Agnieszka, McCaleb (ed.): China’s Changing Competitiveness: Shaking up or Waking up the European Union? Warsaw: Warsaw School of Economics Press, p. 85-110.