Gábor Békés

VIENNA • BUDAPEST

ECONOMICS & DATA ANALYSIS

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Short Bio

Gábor Békés is associate professor of Economics at the Central European University in Vienna, senior research fellow at ELTE KRTK Institute of Economics in Budapest and research fellow at CEPR. He is an applied economist who studies how globalization reshapes firms, locations, and organizations, based on large-scale firm- and transaction-level microdata. He is the co-author of Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy, a textbook published by Cambridge University Press. His new Data Analysis and AI Lab studies the use of genAI in the process of data analysis, creates educational materials and helps link academia and industry.

PUBLISHED 2021

DATA ANALYSIS TEXTBOOK

Co-authored with Gábor Kézdi • Cambridge University Press

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Press & Interviews

FEATURED IN

Boston Globe • Financial Times • Der Standard • Portfolio

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CURRENT EVENTS

Talks & Presentations

2025

INTEGRATORS AND ROBOT ADOPTION

GEN WORKSHOP

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OCT 2

KRTK KTI SEMINAR

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

Research Areas

INTERNATIONAL

ECONOMICS

Firm performance and trade

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ORGANIZATIONS

RESEARCH

Collaboration and bias

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ECONOMIC

GEOGRAPHY

Agglomeration and firms

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HEALTH

RESEARCH

Arthritis and comorbidities

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EDUCATION

Teaching

CURRENT COURSES

DATA ANALYSIS

A sequence of courses based on my textbook

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NEW DEVELOPMENT

DATA ANALYSIS WITH AI

New open access course (in development)

COMING SOON

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

DATA DRIVES

DISCOVERY

EST. 2007 • VIENNA • BUDAPEST