Publications in Refereed Journals

Cultural Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams (with Gianmarco I.P Ottaviano)

Favoritism under Multiple Sources of Social Pressure (with Marton Fleck and Endre Borza)

Into the Unknown: The Extent and Boldness of Firms’ International Footprint (with Davide Castellani, Balázs Muraközy and Gabriel Benito)

Machine imports, technology adoption and local spillovers (with Péter Harasztosi)

The ladder of internationalization modes: Evidence from European firms (with Balázs Muraközy)

Grid and shake: Spatial aggregation and the robustness of regionally estimated elasticities (with Péter Harasztosi)

Shipment frequency of exporters and demand uncertainty: An inventory management approach (with Lionel Fontagné, Balázs Muraközy and Vincent Vicard)

Measuring productivity premia with many modes of internationalization (with Balázs Muraközy)

Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy (with Tommaso Aquilante, Carlo Altomonte and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano)

Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms (with Péter Harasztosi)

Temporary Trade and Heterogenous Firms (with Balázs Muraközy)

Firms and products in international trade: Evidence from Hungary (with Balázs Muraközy and Péter Harasztosi)

Publications beyond economics

Comorbidity clusters in generalized osteoarthritis among female patients: A cross-sectional study (with E. Kaposi, P. Balint et al

  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism (2020) Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 183-191

A patient-derived and patient-reported outcome measure for assessing psoriatic arthritis: elaboration and preliminary validation of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) questionnaire, a 13-country EULAR initiative. (with L. Gossec, TK Kvien and others ),

Work in progress

Work in progress I: Globalization

Robots Adoption and its impact: Evidence from Hungary (with Rosario Crinó, Gino Gancia, Alessandra Bonfiglioli)

Geography of Open source software (with Miklós Koren, Aaron Lohmann and Julian Hinz)

Industrial policy in the Austria-Hungarian Monarchy (with Claudia Steinwender, Mátyás Molnár).

Supplier-buyer relationships in global value chains (with Balázs Muraközy, Álmos Telegdy and Miklós Koren)

Work in progress II: Organizations

  • Connected Choices: Business Group Affiliation and FDI Location Decisions (with Márta Bisztray and Péter Harasztosi), Submitted

  • Stardust: peer effects in early career development (with Bence Szabó) SSRN WP 2025 August

Books, book chapters

Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade (editor, with Carlo Altomonte), Bruegel, Brussels, January 2016

Measuring competitiveness in a granular and global world (with Carlo Altomonte) in Altomonte, C. and G. Békés (2016) Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade pp 3-13

Micro-founded measurement of regional competitiveness in Europe (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano), in Altomonte, C. and G. Békés (2016) Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade pp26-46

Barriers to data access and matching in Europe (with Zsuzsa Holler) in Davide Castellani and Andreas Koch “Mapping competitiveness with European, data”, 2015, Bruegel Bluprint Series #23, Bruegel, Brussels

Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis - (with M. Koren, B. Muraközy, L. Halpern) December 2011, Bruegel Bluprint Series #15, Bruegel, Brussels

Motives of corporate location choice (in Hungarian, in English), Chapter 2.1 in The Hungarian labour market, 2004 : Review and analysis / ed. by K. Fazekas, J. Koltay and Zs. Cseres-Gergely. - Bp. : MTA KTI, 2004.

Resting projects

  • Gender differences in entrepreneurial choices (with Anna May and Aniko Hannak)
  • Auto suppliers (with Balázs Muraközy)
  • Floods, amenities and house prices (with Áron Horváth and Zoltán Sápi) MTA KTI Discussion Paper 2016
  • Trade Complexity and Productivity (with Carlo Altomonte) CeFiG Working Papers, no. 12, October 2010 (NEW VERSION)
  • Location of manufacturing FDI in Hungary: How important are inter-company relationships? Magyar Nemzeti Bank Working Paper, 2005 December, WP 2005/7. new version, available on request

Non-technical posts

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  • echnology adoption via machine imports: Identifying who learns from peers (with Péter Harasztosi), VOXEU column, 30 September 2019
  • The ladder of internationalization modes (with Balázs Muraküzy), VOXEU column, 28 March 2018
  • The Knowns and Unknowns of the European Competitiveness Debate (with Carlo Altomonte ) Roubini EconoMonitor, April 27, 2016
  • Internationalisation and innovation of firms: Give them one roof (with Altomonte, Aquilante and Ottaviano) VOXEU column , 21 March 2014
  • Restarting growth - Why institutions matter for Hungarian companies, Portfolio.hu (19 October 2012)
  • Temporary trade: exporting only once in a while (with Balázs Muraközy), VOXEU column 20 September 2012
  • Still Standing: Global crisis and European Firms (with Koren, Halpern, Muraközy) VOXEU column 18 May 2012
  • Trading ain’t easy: How complex is it to trade goods? (with Carlo Altomonte), VOXEU column(19 November 2010)
  • Trade collapse during the 2009 crisis: How did European companies fare?, Presentation at seminar DG Trade of the European Commission, 2011 Budapest
  • Financial crisis: from global to local, Budapest Times, Monday, 13 October 2008

Policy reports

HUNGARY – How did exporting firms cope with the crisis? - EFIGE Country Report: Hungary, February 2011 (with Miklos Koren, Laszlo Halpern and Balázs Muraközy)

Internationalisation of corporate activity and competitiveness of the European economy: some policy implications (with Carlo Altomonte), Micro-Dyn WP 6/2011

Agglomeration Premium and Trading Activity of Firms –A discussion, (with Peter Harasztosi), 3rd MICRO-DYN NEWSLETTER (September 2010)

Hungary and the Euro: Waitingfor Godot in Economic and Political Challenges of Acceding to the Euro area in the post-Lehman Brothers’ World, Open Society Institute – Sofia /European Policies Initiative (October 2009)

In Hungarian (Magyarul)

Folyóirat cikkek

Területi Egyensúly a munkaerőpiac és az ingatlanárak kapcsolata Magyarországon (with Marta Bisztray), Szigma, LI. (2020) 3. 185-214 (September 2020)

Beszállítói termékek a magyar feldolgozóiparban ( with Balázs Muraközy), Közgazdasági Szemle LXIII. évf., 2016. október (1046—1073. o.) ,

Lakóingatlanárak és települési különbségek (with Horváth Áron , Sápi Zoltán) Közgazdasági Szemle, 63. évf. 12. sz. 2016. p. 1289-1323.

Külkereskedelem és a vállalatok közötti különbségek (with Balázs Muraközy and László Halpern) Közgazdasági Szemle 2013 Január

Magyar Gazellák. A gyors növekedésű vállalatok jellemzői és kialakulásuk elemzése (Balázs Muraközy) Közgazdasági Szemle LI X. évf., 2012. március (233—262. o.)

A teremtő rombolás szerepe a vállalati termelékenység alakulásában Magyarországon (with László Halpern and Balázs Muraközy), Közgazdasági Szemle, vol 63. 2. szám 2011. február

Optimális valutaövezetek, gazdasági integráltság és hasonlatosság: az Európai Unió példája(Optimum currency areas, economic integration and similarity: the case of the EU) in Hungarian in Közgazdasági Szemle (1998. (Vol 45.) 7-8. . 709p)

Könyvfejezetek

Nemzeti innovációs rendszer (National Innovation System) in G. Pörzse (ed) Kutatásszervezés és innovációmenedzsment az egészség- és élettudományok területén, Semmelweis Kiadó, 2011

Innovációs klaszterek és tudásparkok (Innovation clusters and science parks) in Pörzse Gábor (ed): Innovációmenedzsment. - Budapest : Semmelweis Kiadó, 2008.

Műhelytanulmányok

Benzinárak földrajzi meghatározása (Geography of petrol prices with Koren Miklós, Zsohár Péter: ), MT-DP 2011/30