March 2002
István T. Kónya
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Boston College
Office: (617) 552-3690
Fax: (617) 552-2308
Email: konya@bc.edu
Web: www2.bc.edu/~konya
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Age: 29
Marital status: Married
Citizenship: Hungarian
RESEARCH INTEREST
International Trade, Labor Economics, Development Economics
CURRENT TEACHING
International Trade (Graduate, Undergraduate), Intermediate
Microeconomics
DOCTORAL STUDIES
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Dissertation: "Essays on International Trade, Migration and
Culture"
Committee: Joseph Altonji, Kiminori Matsuyama, Gadi Barlevy
Date of Completion: June 2001
PREDOCTORAL STUDIES
MA in Economics, Northwestern University, 1998
Diploma in Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences (BUES),
1996.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Northwestern University Fellow, 1996-1998.
Distinction in Preliminary Examinations, Northwestern University, 1997.
Best Graduate Award, Rajk L‡szl— College for Advanced Studies, 1996.
Hungarian National Fellowship, Budapest University of Economic Sciences,
1993-95.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Northwestern University, Institute for Health
Services Research and Policy Studies, 9/99 - 8/01
Research Assistan, Northwestern University, Department of Economics,
6/98-9/99.
Junior Fellow, Institute for Economic and Market Research
(KOPINT-DATORG), Budapest, Spring 1996.
Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, 12/93-12/94.
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
"Optimal Immigration, Assimilation and Trade", Submitted to the
American Economic Review, October 2001.
"Endogenous Mobility, Human Capital and Trade", December 2001.
"Families and Schools: Possibilities for Education Policy" (in
Hungarian), published in Kšzgazdas‡gi Szemle (Hungarian
Economic Review), December 1996.
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Modeling Cultural Barriers in International Trade"
"Cultural Identity and Assimilation in the Long-Run"
"Education, Migration and the Regional Distribution of Skills"
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
Presented "Optimal Immigration, Assimilation and Trade"
at Boston College, Stony Brook, Rochester, Stockholm University (IIES),
University of British Columbia, University of Texas-Austin, Texas A&M
(Winter 2001) and Boston University, Central
European University (Budapest) (Fall 2001)
Discussant at the New England Universities Development Consortium
Conference, September 2001