CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Péter Horváth
Research economist
Ministry of Finance of Hungary
PhD Candidate
Corvinus University of Budapest
Field
Empirical macroeconomics & monetary policy
Experience
Sep. 2025 — present
Research Economist · Ministry of Finance of Hungary
Work on the macro-modelling and forecasting toolkit of the Macro Division, including quantitative analysis for policy and scenario work.
Mar. — Aug. 2025
Research Intern · European Investment Bank
Collaborated on research on government investment grants, investment and broader macroeconomic aggregates, with the project intended for the Annual Investment Report and peer-reviewed publication.
Jun. — Sep. 2023
Research Intern · International Monetary Fund
Worked in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department on how monetary transmission changes under high uncertainty using Bayesian threshold VARs across 30 economies.
May 2020 — Aug. 2022
Tax Policy Analyst · Ministry of Finance of Hungary
Forecasting tax revenues, managing tax-return data, conducting microsimulation-based policy analysis and preparing staff notes.
Research & publications
2026 · Published
Nonlinear Transmission of Monetary Policy and Housing Market Imbalances: Evidence From a Factor-Augmented Threshold VAR Analysis
Dissertation chapter.
2024 · Published
Inflation Shock and Monetary Policy
With Szilárd Benk and Norbert Szepesi.
Working paper
Monetary Transmission in a Fragmented Uncertain World
Dissertation chapter, coauthored with Tohid Atashbar.
Working paper
A Distributional Perspective on Forward Guidance and the US Term Structure
Dissertation chapter.
Working paper
How Does Grant Design Shape Investment, Output, and Productivity in Europe?
Coauthored with Atanas Kolev and Laurent Maurin.
Education
2021 — present
PhD in Economics · Corvinus University of Budapest
Field: Empirical Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy · Supervisor: István Kónya · Thesis: Essays on the nonlinear transmission of monetary policy.
2022 — 2024
MSc in Quantitative Economics · Eötvös Loránd University
2019 — 2021
MSc in Economic Analysis · Corvinus University of Budapest
2016 — 2019
BA in Applied Economics · Corvinus University of Budapest
Teaching & skills
Teaching
Lecturer: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Economics.
Teaching Assistant: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Game Theory, Macroeconomic Modeling and Advanced Macroeconomics.
Technical skills
R · professional Stata · advanced Matlab · intermediate Python · basic
Languages: Hungarian (native), English (proficient), German (basic).