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Current Position

09/2024- Research Fellow

• Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
• Topic: The evolution of e-commerce in Italy
• Supervisors: Ilaria Mariotti and Federica Rossi
• Collaborators: Tommaso Cigognetti and Dimitris Manoukas
• Contract valid until June 2026

Education

10/2021- 12/2025: PhD in Economics

• LEM CNRS UMR 9221, Université de Lille
• Thesis title: Making Regions Great Again: Winning Big with European Integration
• Job market paper: Out of the Dark into the Light? Border Urban Municipalities and Eastern EU Enlargements
• Supervisors: Jan Fidrmuc and Nicolas Debarsy
• Defense date: 04.12.2025
• Jury members: Quentin David, Camélia Turcu, Laurent Weill, Lisa Chauvet and Steven Brakman

10/2013-08/2015: Master of Science in Economics with major in mathematical economics

• Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
• Master thesis: Economic Integration of the Visegrád Countries into the European Union - An Input-Output Analysis
• Supervisor: Mikuláš Luptáčik

10/2009-09/2013: Bachelor of Science in Economics

• Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
• Bachelor thesis: The Interregional Economic Development in the Slovak Republic
• Supervisor: Sascha Sardadvar

Teaching Experience

02/2024-04/2024 - Teaching Assistant

• Tutorials in introduction to macroeconomics (Travaux Dirigés Introduction à la Macroéconomie)
• First year MIASH Bachelor Program of Université de Lille
• Supervising professor: Quentin David

02/2023-04/2023 - Teaching Assistant

• Tutorials in introduction to macroeconomics (Travaux Dirigés Introduction à la Macroéconomie)
• First year MIASH Bachelor Program of Université de Lille
• Supervising professor: Quentin David

Work experience

10/2015-09/2021: Senior economic analyst

• Institute for Strategy and Analysis, Government Office of the Slovak Republic
• Quantitative analyses assessing the impact of policies
• Collaboration on the National Productivity Board annual reports

Other Academic activities

• 11/2025: Visiting researcher at the Harriman Institute (Colombia University); Sponsor: Timothy Frye
• 05/2023-05/2024: Co-founder and co-organizer of LEM Doctoral Seminar
• 11/2022: Visiting researcher at the Provozne ekonomicka fakulta (Mendelova univerzita); Sponsor: Svatoplouk Kapounek

Complementary Education

• 08/2022: Causal Inference Mixtape Workshop (Online)
• 09/2020: Panel Data Econometrics (CEMFI in Madrid, Spain)
• 06/2019: Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation Summer School (Paris School of Economics in Paris, France)
• 07/2018: ERSA Summer School: Regional Policy - Evaluation Theory and Practice (Ekonomická Univerzita in Bratislava, Slovakia)
• 07/2017: ERSA Summer School GIS and Regional Science -Theory and Applications (University of the Aegean in Mytilene, Greece)
• 11/2016: Erasmus for Public Administration (DG REGIO in Brussels, Belgium)
• 08/2016: Treatment Effects and the Econometrics of Program Evaluation (CEMFI in Madrid, Spain)
• 09/2011: International Marketing (International Summer University South Eastern Europe in Budva, Montenegro)

Honors and Awards

• 10/2016: 3rd place NBS Governor’s Award for an outstanding dissertation or diploma thesis in the area monetary economics, macroeconomics or financial economics for the master thesis “Economic Integration of the Visegrád Countries into the European Union - An Input-Output Analysis”

Skills

• Mathematical and statistical software: R (proficient user), STATA (proficient user), Matlab (independent user) and QGIS (independent user)
• Document creation: LATEX (proficient user), MS Office (proficient user) and Markdown (independent user)
• Languages: Slovak (Native), English (C2), German (C1), French (B1+)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Fidrmuc, J., Hulényi, M., & Zajkowska, O. (2024). The Long and Winding Road to find the Impact of EU Funds on Regional Growth: IV and Spatial Analyses. Regional Studies, 58(3), 583–600.
• Fidrmuc, J., Gardoňová, K., Hulényi, M., Sekelský, L., & Zlaczká, V. (2022). EU Funds as a Catalyst of Change for the Slovak healthcare system?. REGION, 9(1), 29–49.
• Fidrmuc, J., Hulényi, M., & Tunalı, Ç. B. (2019). Can money buy EU love?. European Journal of Political Economy, 60, 101804.

Other publications

• Fidrmuc, J., Gardoňová, K., Hulényi, M., & Zavarská, Z. (2023). A highway is not a panacea: The impact of a new highway on the local labour market in Slovakia.
• Hulényi, M. Economic Integration of the Visegrád Countries into the European Union.

Policy papers

• Gardoňová, K., Hulényi, M., Zavarská, Z., Rybanská, V., Cedzová, N., Dovčík, J., & Zlaczká, V. (2021). Report on Productivity and Competitiveness of the Slovak Republic 2020.
• Fidrmuc, J., Gardoňová, K., Hulényi, M., & Zavarská, Z. (2020). Report on Productivity and Competitiveness of the Slovak Republic 2019.
• Fidrmuc, J., Gardoňová, K., Hulényi, M., Lešková, A., & Zlaczká, V. (2018). Mind the Gap: Macroeconomic Analysis of the Investment gap in Slovak regions.
• Fidrmuc, J., Hulényi, M., Pastor, D., & Zlaczká, V. (2017). Dopad brexitu na politiku súdržnosti.
• Fidrmuc, J., Hulényi, M., & Rimegová, K. (2017). Hospodárske dosledky TTIP: Prehľad literatúry a závery pre Slovensko.
• Fidrmuc, J., Hulényi, M., & Rimegová, K. (2017). Economic Consequences of TTIP: A Survey of Literature and Implications for Slovakia.

Presentations

• 2025: RSA annual meeting in Porto, Economic Research Seminar at Economics University in Bratislava
• 2024: European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting in Vienna, IOS Regensburg Summer Academy in Tutzing, Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Bratislava, 15th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop at WIFO in Vienna, Doctoral Seminar at LEM in Lille, Spatial Warsaw Seminar at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw Economic Seminar at University of Warsaw
• 2023: WIIW Research Seminar in Vienna, Seminar at LEM in Lille, European Regional Science Association Congress in Alicante, Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Banská Bystrica
• 2022: LEM Happy Day in Lille, RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics (online), European Regional Science Association Congress in Pecs, Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Bratislava
• 2021: European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting (online) , Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Nitra
• 2020: Slovak Economic Association Meeting (online)
• 2019: Czech Economic Society and Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Brno
• 2018: 11th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop at WIFO in Vienna, Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Bratislava
• 2017: European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting in Budapest, 10th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop at WIFO in Vienna, Slovak Economic Association Meeting in Košice
• 2016: European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting in Freiburg am Breisgau, Joint Annual Meeting of the Slovak Economic Association and the Austrian Economic Association in Bratislava, Warsaw International Economic Meeting, 25 years of transforming centrally planned economies: experiences and perspectives conference in Bratislava