The best way to meet with leading specialist in the field
Economics Summer School (ESS) 2020 is an extraordinary training event in Slovakia. ESS is a unique combination of learning and debating economics issues including engaging social frame. Over the course of few days, you will have a chance to interact with academics and guest speakers, and take part in social discussions.
ESS 2020 runs from 22 - 29 July in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.
At the ESS, participants will be debating and discussing economics topics with cutting – edge thinking academics, including Barbora Šedová, Ivan Sekaj, Marek Šuppa, Igor Farkaš a Dominik Sopiak. Our keynote speaker will be Michal Horváth.
It will be an amazing opportunity to learn more and expand knowledge of economics.
Graduate and post-graduate students may also join the discussions about the latest developments in theories and applied sciences face-to-face with distinguished specialists from around the world.
...in progress. We are finding possibilities according to raising the Covid-19 situation.
22 – 29 July 2020
22 – 24 July 2020
The aim of this course is to familiarise participants with the main econometric methods currently applied in policy impact analysis. The course begins with a discussion of the concept of causal inference, which lies at the core of any statistical impact analysis. The course further covers three important statistical methods for estimating causal effects: (i) regression discontinuity design, (ii) differences-in-differences, and (iii) matching.
These methods are designed to reproduce randomised experiments using available data. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages and can only be used under specific conditions. The course discusses the appropriate application of the methods, introduces some practical examples and covers exercises in Stata. The aim is to provide participants with sufficient technical and practical knowledge to enable them to carry out simple impact assessment studies on their own. The course is intended for analysts, researchers, as well as students with basic knowledge of econometric methods and a good command of English.
27 – 29 July 2020
The goal of this part of the course is to provide conceptual introduction to various methods that belong to machine learning and optimisation approaches, the two fields that share some features and differ in others. Machine learning has become extremely popular in the last decade, especially thanks to remarkable achievements of deep learning. But computational intelligence methods in general have proven successful in solving various complex tasks. All topics will be presented at a slightly technical level, combined with practical examples, aiming to facilitate understanding.
Evidence-based policy making Causal inference Refresher of basic statistical concepts Randomisation Experiments vs. quasi-experiments
Barbora ŠedováThe event is organised by the Institute of Banking Education NBS, n.o.
under the supervision of the Programme committee
Deputy Governor of National Bank of Slovakia; former member of the Council for Budget Responsibility, Deputy Chair of Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions and Visiting Professor at the Central European
Head of Economic and Monetary Analysis (Chief Economist), National Bank of Slovakia
Deputy Governor of National Bank of Slovakia; former member of the Council for Budget Responsibility, Deputy Chair of Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions and Visiting Professor at the Central European
Head of Economic and Monetary Analysis (Chief Economist), National Bank of Slovakia
Michal Horváth is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. In my full-time job, I am head of Economic and Monetary Analysis (Chief Economist) at the National Bank of Slovakia. He was a Lecturer in Economics at York between 2014 and 2019. Before coming to York, he was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford between 2009 and 2014.
Michal finished PhD in economics at the University of StAndrews in 2007 and he also a graduate of Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia (2002) and University of York (2003).
Between 2012 and 2015, he served a three-year term as one of the founding members of Slovakia's Council for Budget Responsibility - an independent fiscal watchdog. In this role, he started coordinating the activities of the Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions, a platform for cooperation among EU fiscal watchdogs.
In the past, he also worked in both the private and public sectors in Slovakia. Notably, he served as an adviser to Slovak finance ministers between 2007 and 2012. Between 2008 and 2010, he was a member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union and the Eurogroup Working Group on behalf of Slovakia.He also participated in the working group preparing the reform of economic governance in Europe for the task force led by the President of the European Council in 2010.
Director of Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia (central bank)
Martin Šuster is the director of research at the National Bank of Slovakia (central bank). He also serves as the chairman of the Slovak Economic Association. He holds a PhD. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
In 2004 he became an advisor to the deputy governor of the National bank of Slovakia. Later on he moved to head an international economics section of the research department and since 2007 he is a director of the NBS research department. In the period of 2007-2009 he was a chairman of a Working committee for communication on euro adoption, responsible for managing the euro information campaign in the Slovak Republic. Mr. Šuster has been lecturing macroeconomics and economic policies at several Slovak universities. He is a member of the scientific committee at the Faculty of Management of Comenius University. His research interests include macroeconomics, convergence, monetary policy and the evaluation of research quality.