Research interests

Empirical health economics (with a microeconometric focus)

• Geographical accessibility and the use of health services (with Balázs Váradi, Tamás Molnár and Márton Varga)
• article in Health Economics
• Effects of the development of outpatient care services in Hungarian micro-regions (with Norbert Kiss and Balázs Váradi)
• article in Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle and evaluation report (in Hungarian)
• Pharmacoeconomic analyses
  • Implication of EPR and parallel trade on pharmaceutical expenditure: indirect evidence from lower-income European countries (with Eszter Takács, Gergő Merész and Zoltán Kaló) (article in Health Policy and Planning)
  • Policy objective of generic medicines from the investment perspective: the case of clopidogrel (with András Harsányi, Tamás Zelei, Kata Csetneki and Zoltán Kaló) (article in Health Policy)

Empirical labour and public economics

• The elasticity of the effective corporate tax rate in Hungary: evidence from the tax cut between 2009 and 2011 (with László Lőrincz) (article in Közgazdasági Szemle)
• Labour outflow from the public sector in Hungary (with Péter A. Szabó) (article in Közgazdasági Szemle and book chapter in English)
• Behavioural and dynamic microsimulation models of households (in KIH-Ecostat) (conference talk in Hungarian)

Tax evasion in Hungary

• Eliciting permanent and transitory undeclared work from matched administrative and survey data (with János Köllő) (working paper)
• Detecting wage under-reporting using a double hurdle model (with János Köllő, Balázs Reizer and Péter A. Szabó) (article in Research in Labor Economics)
• Measuring undeclared employment in Hungary (with Ágota Scharle, Bálint Szabó and Péter A. Szabó) (book chapter in Hungarian and abstract in English)
• Summary of empirical results on tax evasion, tax avoidance, black and grey employment in Hungary (with Dóra Benedek and János Köllő)
  (book chapter [p. 161-184] in English or book chapter [p. 165-188] in Hungarian)

Nonlinear time series models and extreme value theory

• Tail behaviour of beta-TARCH models (with László Márkus) (article in Statist. Probab. Lett.)
• Modelling extremes of time series with Markov-switching structures (with András Zempléni) (article in J. Statist. Plann. Inf.)
• Tail behaviour and extremes of two-state Markov-switching autoregressive models (with András Zempléni) (article in Comput. Math. Appl.)
• A light-tailed conditionally heteroscedastic model with applications to the analysis of river flows (with László Márkus) (article in J. Time Ser. Anal.)
• A two-state autoregressive regime switching model with applications to river flow analysis (with András Zempléni) (article in J. Statist. Plann. Inf.)
• A long range dependent model with nonlinear innovations for simulating daily river flows (with László Márkus) (article in Natural Resource and Earth Systems Sciences)
• My Ph.D. dissertation

Other topics

• Macroeconometric modelling of the Hungarian economy (with Anikó Bíró and János Vincze) (article in Acta Oeconomica in English and in Közgazdasági Szemle)
• Forecasting and simulating mortality tables (with Miklós Arató, Dávid Bozsó and András Zempléni) (article in Math. Comput. Model.)