Gábor Békés

Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Central European University, and Senior Research Fellow at the MTA KRTK Institute of Economics.

Vienna · Budapest — Economics & Data Analysis

Gábor Békés is associate professor of Economics at the Central European University in Vienna, senior research fellow at the MTA KRTK Institute of Economics (Hungary), and research fellow at CEPR and Centro LdA (Italy). He is an applied economist who studies how globalization reshapes firms, locations, and organizations, based on large-scale firm- and transaction-level microdata. He is the co-author of Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy, a textbook published by Cambridge University Press, and an advising fellow at the Microsoft AI Economy Institute. His Data Analysis and AI Lab supports research, produces education materials, and helps link academia and industry.

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What's new

  • Jul 2026 Media Teaching Analytics in the Age of AI — a CEU podcast conversation on AI and teaching data analysis. Episode and transcript.
  • Jun 2026 Media Telex podcast on football as a laboratory for social science — episode and the research behind it.
  • Mar 2026 Media Vibe Coding Kills Open Source picked up by the Financial Times, TechTarget, InfoQ and LeadDev.
  • Oct 2025 Paper Cultural Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams (with Gianmarco Ottaviano) published in Management Science. Covered by the Boston Globe and Der Standard.
  • Oct 2025 Talk Vibe Coding Kills Open Source presented at Ericsson and Automattic — CEPR DP21145.

Research

Journal articles, discussion papers and work in progress are listed in reverse chronological order, each tagged by topic.

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Textbook

Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy (with Gábor Kézdi), Cambridge University Press, 2021. Used in courses in more than 40 countries.

Textbook site About the book

Teaching

Data Analysis 1–4

A graduate course sequence at CEU based on the textbook.

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Data Analysis with AI

Open-access upskilling course for economics and social science students.

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Recent talks

  • 2025 — Integrators and robot adoption, GEN Workshop. Slides
  • Oct 2 — Vibe coding kills OSS, Ericsson, Automattic. CEPR DP

Press & interviews

Featured in the Boston Globe, Financial Times, Der Standard, and Portfolio.

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