prof. Roman Horváth, Ph.D.

prof. Roman Horváth, Ph.D.

Posts:

  • Department of Macroeconomics and Econometrics
  • Academic Council

E-mail: roman.horvath@fsv.cuni.cz , roman.horvath@fsv.cuni.cz

Telephone: +420 222 112 317

Website

Rooms: No. O409, Opletalova 26

ResearcherID: G-7344-2014

Scopus Author ID: 8421423300

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9036-9746

Roman Horvath is a Professor at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. He served as the Head of Research Unit and Advisor to the Board at the Czech National Bank and as the President of Czech Economic Society. He has published in the Journal of International EconomicsIMF Economic ReviewJournal of Money, Credit and Banking(2x), World Bank Economic Review, and Review of Economic Dynamics among many other journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Associate Editor of Open Economies Review and Associate Editor of Journal of Financial Stability. He served as the consultant to a number of different institutions, including the European Parliament (a member of Monetary Experts Panel of the European Parliament) and World Bank.

Education

2004-2008 Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (PhD.)
2002-2004 Central European University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary (M.A.)
1999-2002 Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Bc.)

Additional Academic Training - summer schools, courses, workshops:
International Monetary Fund, Georgetown University, Southern Illinois University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bank of England, Swiss National Bank, Austrian National Bank, University of Salento, CEMFI, Universidade do Minho

Job history

Main position:
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (2011+)
- Deputy Director (from 1/2011) & Professor (6/2017+) & Head, Department of Macroeconomics and Econometrics (4/2019+)
- Head, Department of European Economic Integration and Economic Policy (4/2015-3/2019)
- Associate Professor (5/2012-6/2017)
- Assistant Professor (12/2010-4/2012)

Czech National Bank (2004-2010):
– Head of Research Unit and Adviser to the Bank Board,
Research and Financial Stability Department (Oct. 2009-Nov. 2010)
– Deputy Head of Research Unit,
Research and Financial Stability Department (Oct. 2007-Sept. 2009)
– Senior Economist,
Research Department (March 2007-Sept. 2007)
– Head of Monetary Analysis Unit,
Monetary and Statistics Department (Sept. 2005-Feb. 2007)
– Junior Analyst,
Monetary and Statistics Department (Aug. 2004-Aug. 2005)

Other current, visiting, short-term and past part-time positions:

World Bank, Department of Econometrics, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, European Research University, Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences Masaryk University, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Economics, Bratislava, Mendel University, National Bank of Slovakia, Central Bank of Hungary, Czech National Bank

Refereeing

More than 250 manuscripts, including for the Journal of Development Economics, IMF Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,  Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, World Development, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization or Economic Inquiry, book proposals for publishing houses such as Cambridge University Press or Elsevier. 

Invited talks

Universities/Academia: University of Brighton; Universite Paris Nanterre; University of Regensburg; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Leibniz Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern European Studies, Regensburg; University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava; University of Economics, Prague

Central banks and international institutions: Deutsche Bundesbank; Joint Vienna Institute (International Monetary Fund), Vienna; National Bank of Slovakia; Oesterreichische Nationalbank; Central Bank of Hungary; Czech National Bank

Financial institutions: Vseobecna Uverova Banka, Bratislava; The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Embassy: British Embassy Prague (lectures on monetary policy) 

Keynote/Panel speeches: Economic Policy in a Global Environment conference; Czech Economic Society annual meeting; University of Rennes macro workshop; New Trends in the Economics of Central Banking workshop, Paris

Citations

More than 6500 citations according to Google Scholar, including in journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review (P&P), Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, IMF Economic Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics and many others. 

Rok vydání

Monographs

Chapters in monographs

Articles

Contributions in the conference proceedings

2010 European Association of Comparative Economic Studies Dissertation Award 
2007-2010 Czech National Bank Economic Research Award (2007, 2009, 2010)
2006 Karel Englis Prize (Czech Economic Society)
2006 Young Economist (Czech Economic Society), 2nd prize
2004 Young Economist (Czech Economic Society), 3rd prize
2003 Central European University, Full University Fellowship
2003 IES Alumni Award 
2002 Young Economist (Czech Economic Society), 3rd prize

JEM116 - Applied Econometrics
JEM177 - Intermediate Macroeconomics I
JEB114 - Macroeconomics I
JEB115 - Macroeconomics II
JED414 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance I
JED415 - Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance II

Bachelor theses

See the topics for M.A. theses below.

Master theses

Empirical investigations in the following broadly defined areas are welcomed.

1) Central banking
2) Financial stability
3) Financial development
4) Natural resource curse
5) Wealth inequality

More specific suggestions I am willing to supervise are listed below:

The determinants and effects of central bank communication

Central bank communication strategies and their consequences

The peer effects on central bank communication

The adoption of macroprudential policies

Natural disasters and the financial sector

The clarity of central bank communication

Artificial intelligence and central bank communication

Financial innovations and wealth inequality

Financial markets uncertainty and expectation formation

Central bank transparency around the globe

2019–21 Czech Science Foundation (GACR) “Central Bank Governance: Transparency and Communication after the Crisis”, Principal Investigator
2012–14 Czech Science Foundation (GACR) “Quantitative Modelling of Monetary and Fiscal Policies after the Crisis”, Principal Investigator
2011–13 Czech Science Foundation (GACR) “Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Financial Crisis”, Principal Investigator
2010–11 Czech Science Foundation (GACR) “The Effects of Monetary Policy Transparency”, Principal Investigator
2007 Global Development Network RSS – World Bank, Principal Investigator

Monetary Policy, Political Economy, Financial Institutions