Iván Major
Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Veszprém, and
Senior fellow at the Institute of Economics, H.A.S.
Institute of Economics Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1112 Budapest Budaörsi út 45.
phone: (+36-1) 309-2678; fax: (+36-1) 319-3136
e-mail: major@econ.core.hu
University of Veszprém
H-8200 Veszprém, Egyetem u. 10.
phone: (+36-88) 422-022/4648, fax: (+36-88) 422-022/4754
e-mail: majori@almos.vein.hu
Research interest
Corporate governance, company restructuring and economic performance in CEE.
The regulation of public utilities.
Education
| 1973: | M.Sc. at the University of Economics, Budapest |
| 1975-1976: | Doctoral dissertation: "The Neo-Ricardian Theories of Reproduction and the Reproduction Model of Piero Sraffa." Diploma: "highest honors" ("summa cum laude") |
| 1981-1983: | Ph.D. dissertation on "Közlekedés a tervgazdaságban" [Transportation in the Planned Economy], the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. |
| 1993-1995: | Privatization in Eastern Europe: A Critical Approach, the title "Doctor of Economic Sciences" was granted on October 18, 1995 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. |
| 1975-1978: | Eight semesters were finished in psychology - experimental and social psychology - at the "Eötvös Lóránd" University in Budapest. |
Positions Held
December 15, 2000- Head of Ph.D. School in Economics at the University of Veszprém
February 1, 1999- Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Veszprém
March, 1997-July, 1997: Visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Political Science.
January 1996- Project Coordinator of the Phare A.C.E. multinational research project on "Company Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe".
January, 1995- Managing Director of the Foundation for Economic Studies and Head of the Center for Institutional Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
January, 1992-December, 1994: Executive Director of the Blue Ribbon Commission Hungarian Foundation
September, 1990-December, 1991: Stockholm Institute of Soviet and East Europen Economics, Visiting Fellow.
1973- Reserach fellow at the Institute of Economics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Teaching
February 1, 1999- Teaching microeconomics as professor at the University of Veszprém.
1999-2000: Advisor of a Ph.D. candidate.
March-July, 1997: Teaching a course at UCSD on "The Political Economy of Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe."
1990-1991: Seminars at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
1987: Advisor of a Ph.D. candidate.
Other Professional Activities
| 1998- | | Member of the American Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) |
| 1994-1996: | Member of the Board of the Hungarian Telecommunications Company Ltd. |
| 1990- | Member of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) |
| 1985- | Member of the European Economic Association. |
Fellowship, Travel
| 1997: | (March-July) Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego. |
| 1996: | (September) Visiting fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
| 1995-1996: | Member of a Phare-ACE research team on Financial Restructuring of Companies during Economic Transformation. |
| 1992: | Participation and presenting a study on Telecommunications Investment and Tariff Policy in Hungary at the conference organized by the O.E.C.D. in Prague, CSFR, between June 3 and 5, 1992. |
| 1991: | Participation and presenting a paper on "Private and Public Infrastructure in Eastern Europe" at the conference organized by the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, in Oxford, UK, between September 13 and 15, 1991. |
| 1991: | Participation and delivering a lecture at the annual congress of the European Economic Association on "Some Economic and Political Issues of the Systemic Changes in Eastern Europe: the Lessons of Hungary", in Cambridge, UK, held between August 30 and September 2, 1991.
Presenting a paper at the annual congress of IAREP/SASE Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Economic Problems" in Stockholm, on "Credibility Problems During Transition", held between June 16-19, 1991. |
| 1989: | Participation and delivering a lecture at the annual congress of the European Economic Association on "Two Aspects of Economic Reform in the Centrally Regulated Economies", in Augsburg, FRG, September 2-4. |
| 1990-1991: | | Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics, 15 months. |
| 1987-1988: | The Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies, Washington D.C., Visiting "Soviet and East European" fellow, working on a research project on "Periods of Exhaustion and Attempts at Reform in the European C.M.E.A. countries". Twelve months. |
| 1987: | Participation in an international conference in Moscow organized by the Institute of Prognosis and Planning of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. We discussed the alternatives of economic and technical development under the new economic conditions of the European C.M.E.A. countries. One week. |
| 1987: | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, France). Final editing of contract work(see above). Three weeks. |
| 1984: | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France). Did research on the economic policy and the role of state institutions in economic management in France in the 1980s. Two months fellowship. |
| 1979: | University of Oslo, Institute of Economics. Comparative study of the Norwegian and Hungarian economic policies and development in the 1970s. Research supervised and supported by professor Leif Johansen. Four months fellowship. |
| 1977: | International conference for young econimists on the main issues of socialist economies, organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Warna, Bulgaria. One week. |
| 1976: | Institute of Economics, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Research was done on the development of the Czechoslovak electronic industry. Two weeks scholarship. |
Knowledge of Languages
Speaking, writing and reading knowledge:
English, French, Russian, German and Hungarian.
Selected publications
