Gergely Csorba

Gergely Csorba has been working at the Institute of Economics since 2005. He finished his Master studies in Economics at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and at the University of Toulouse, and received his PhD degree in Economics from the Central European University. His research focuses and theoretical and empirical Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, and published on this topic in referred international journals (Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade). He used to teach at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, at the University of Veszprem and in the Erasmus College, and currently is a visiting lecturer at the Central European University. He also acted as the Chief Economist of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) from 2006 till 2012.

EDUCATION

• 2001-2006: Central European University, Budapest, PhD in Economics thesis title: "Three Essays on Monopolist Second-degree Discrimination Strategies in the Presence of Positive Network Effects" thesis committee: Péter Benczúr (supervisor), Andrzej Baniak, Leif Danziger, Jacques Thisse
• 2000-2001: Toulouse School of Economics, Master of Economics and Econometrics specialization: Quantitative Economics thesis title: "Monopoly Quality Differentiation Strategies with Network Externalities" thesis committee: Bruno Jullien (supervisor), Patrick Rey, Jean Tirole
• 1995-2000: Budapest University of Economic Studies, Master of Economic Theory thesis title: "Pricing Strategies of a Durable Good Monopolist"

REPRESENTATIVE PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• "Functional Degradation and Asymmetric Network Effects", joint work with JongHee Hahn, Journal of Industrial Economics 54, pp. 253-268 (2006 June)
• "Screening Contracts in the Presence of Positive Network Effects", International Journal of Industrial Organization 26, pp. 213-226 (January 2008)
• "Contracting with Asymmetric Information in the Presence of Positive Network Effects: Screening and Divide-and-Conquer Techniques", Information Economics and Policy 20, pp. 54-66 (March 2008)

CURRENT RESEARCH PAPERS

• "Measuring impact of structural changes on the Hungarian retail gasoline market – an ex post analysis", joint work with Dávid Farkas and Gábor Koltay
• "Estimating Switching Costs from Aggregated Data", joint work with Gábor Kézdi

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Referring: International Journal of Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Policy, International Journal of the Economics of Business
• 2010-: Steering Committee Member, Association of Competition Economics (ACE)
• 2009-2010: Organizer of the "Market Analysis, Competition Policy and Regulation" seminar series (joint event of GVH & IE-HAS)
• 2008: Organizer of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Association for Competition Economics (ACE), Budapest
• 2006-2008: Steering Committee Member, European Competition Network Chief Competition Economists Workgroup

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2006-: OECD and various competition authorities in Hungary, Albania, Cyprus, Egypt and Slovakia (courses on theoretical and empirical aspects of Competition Policy and Industrial Organization)
• 2005-6: Lecturer, Veszprém University (Advanced Microeconomics, Information Economics and Contract Theory)
• 2003-5: Teaching Assistant, Central European University (Microeconomic Theory 2)
• 2002-4: Lecturer, Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Microeconomics, Industrial Organization)