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