KTI70: Conference to celebrate the 70th anniversary
of the Institute of Economics
Date: 21-22 October, 2024
Venue: Institute of Economics, HUN-REN Center for Economic and Regional Studies
1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán str. 4.
PROGRAM
Monday, 21 October, 2024
Plenary Session I.
Venue: Conference Hall
09.30 – 09.40 Opening remarks by László Á. Kóczy, Director, Institute of Economics
09.40 – 10.40 Plenary talk by Haris Aziz (UNSW Sydney): Justifiably Fair Decision Making
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break (Gallery)
11.00 – 12.30 Parallel Session I.
Parallel Session: Theory
Venue: room K.0.11
• Miklós Pintér, (Budapest University of Technology and Economics):
Generalized Type Spaces
• Péter Csóka, (Institute of Economics): Two Axiomatizations of the Pairwise Netting Proportional Rule in Financial Networks
• László Á. Kóczy, (Institute of Economics): One Man, One Vote, One Price
Parallel Session: Social and collaboration networks
Venuee: room K.0.12
• László Lőrincz, (Institute of Economics), Old boys in the making of business. The role of social connections in the creation and persistence of business relations
• Márton Karsai (Central European University): Socioeconomic reorganization of communication and mobility networks in response to external shocks
• Dima Yankova and Brigitta Németh, (Corvinus University of Budapest): Examining OSS Ecosystem Dynamics for Innovation and Sustainability.
Parallel Session: Policy
Venue: Room K.0.13-14.
• Ádám Reiff, (Institute of Economics): When do voters punish corrupt candidates? Evidence from Hungary
• Márta Bisztray, (Institute of Economics): Supply chain disruptions
• László Halpern, (Institute of Economics): Products in economy-wide analysis and policy design
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch (Gallery)
13.30 – 15.00 Parallel Session II.
Parallel Session: Theory
Venue: room K.0.11
• Sreoshi Banerjee, (Budapest University of Technology and Economics):
Scheduling with Divisible Jobs
• Attila Tasnádi (Corvinus University of Budapest): Violin virtuosos: Do their performances fade over time?
• Róbert Somogyi, (Institute of Economics, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics): News media bargaining codes
Parallel Session: Urban mobility
Venuee: room K.0.12
• Riccardo Di Clemente (Northeastern University London): Exploring Spatio-Temporal Mobility Patterns
• Gergő Pintér (Corvinus University of Budapest): Barriers of urban mobility
• Gergő Galiger and Patrik Tóth (Budapest Public Transport Centre): Innovative applications of neural networks to improve traffic safety – case study from Budapest
Parallel Session: Policy
Venuee: room K.0.13-14.
• Tamás Keller (Institute of Economics): Information and Track Choice—Repeated Randomized Information Treatments to Support the Choice for the Academic Upper-Secondary Track
• Gábor Kertesi (Institute of Economics): Social inequalities in respiratory health of Hungarian children: the role of housing conditions, ambient air pollution, and behavioral risks
• Blanka Imre (DIW): School Closures and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Germany
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break (Gallery)
Plenary Session II.
Venue: Conference Hall
15.30 – 16.30 Plenary talk by Frank Neffke (Complexity Science Hub): Mapping software job tasks to study the changing nature and global geography of programming work
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break (Gallery)
17.00 – 18.00 Panel Discussion:
▪ Charaf Hassan, Rector, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
▪ Csilla Stéger, Senior Manager, PwC
▪ Panellist 3.: TBA
▪ Moderator: Dániel Horn, Institute of Economics.
18.00 – 20.00 Dinner (Gallery)
Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
9.30 – 11.00 Parallel Session III.
Parallel Session: Theory
Venue: room K.0.11
• Gergely Csáji (Institute of Economics): The NTU Partitioned Matching Game for International Kidney Exchange Programs
• Ildikó Schlotter (Institute of Economics): Parameterized Algorithms for Optimal Refugee Resettlement
• Fleiner Tamás, (Institute of Economics): 2-phase greedy algorithms for stable matchings
Parallel Session: Economic interactions and labor markets
Venuee: room K.0.12
• Neave O’Clery (University College London): Is there evidence of knowledge spillovers from multinational to domestic firms in Ireland?
• Sándor Juhász (Corvinus University of Budapest): Colocation of skill related suppliers – Revisiting coagglomeration using firm-to-firm network data
• András Borsos (Central Bank of Hungary): Information gains in granular production networks
Parallel Session: Policy
Venuee: room K.0.13-14.
• Tímea Molnár (Central European University): Does Earlier Return to Work Enhance Mothers’ Labor Trajectories? – Evidence on Substitution Effects in Paid Parental Leave
• Péter Elek (Institute of Economics): Firm Quality and Health Maintenance
• Bence Szabó (Corvinus University of Budapest): Mechanisms of Peer Effect
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
Plenary Session III.
Venue: Conference Hall
11.30 – 12.30 Plenary talk by Michele Belot (Cornell University): The Economics of Behavioral Change
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch (Gallery)
