Gábor Békés
Senior research fellow, Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary,
Gábor Békés is a senior research fellow at the Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a research affiliate at CEPR. He teaches regional and urban economics and data analysis at the Central European University in Budapest. He received his PhD in 2007 from the Central European Univer sity, and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. His research is focused on international trade, regional development and the performance and internationalisation of firms. His work was published among others by the Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics or Economic Policy. He is an author of Bruegel Blueprint #15 on crisis and European firms.
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The knowns and unknowns of the European competitiveness debate
Micro-economic features of economic systems can have a major impact on national performance. Policymakers should therefore reconfigure their scoreboar
Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade
This new Bruegel Blueprint provides a differentiated understanding of growth, productivity and competitiveness and the important role public policy ne
Internationalisation and innovation of firms
The analysis suggests that policymakers should coordinate, if not integrate, innovation and internationalisation policies in order to boost productivi
Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis - The third EFIGE policy report
This report is part of the EFIGE project and makes use of the data collected during 2009, a especially turbulent time for European firms. It pro