NEWS
A Romanian contribution to the EU reform budget debate initiated by the European Commission
The Study (Managing diversity for a growing Europe: a Romanian view on the EU budgetary review process)

GEA Self-Assessment Report 2004-2007 (in Romanian)


GEA launched the Report on Romania and Lisbon Agenda, the 5th edition

5th GEA Report on Romania and the Lisbon Agenda
Comunicat de presa






Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, published by the World Economic Forum (GEA is the partner organization for Romania):

Comunicat de Presa GEA
General Press Release



GEA has published "The Handbook for Regional Competitiveness Assessment”, a result of the GOF - finance project "Romania – Building Regional Assessment Capacity in Line with the Lisbon Agenda"


GEA hosts, on November 28th, 2007, a public conference to launch the 5th edition of its report "Romania and the Lisbon Agenda". The event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bucharest, from 10 a.m.


GEA is the local partner selected by Arthur D. Little to contribute to the study "Romania Competitiveness Project", financed by IFC


GEA is undertaking a research commissioned by the Association of Leasing and Non-Banking Financial Services on the topic of credit growth dynamics and potential in Romania.


GEA is undertaking a research for The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), within the GDN Southeast Europe network, on the impact of flat tax reform on inequality in income distribution.


GEA completed a study for the European Investment Bank on the financing gap for SMEs in Romania.


Presentations given by professors John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula, Klaus Meyer (Reading University), Ulf Andersson (Uppsala University) and Matija Rojec (Ljubljana University) at the GEA - NEC conference "The Role of Foreign Direct Investments in An Emerging Economy", held in Bucharest on March 16th 2007.

Presentation of GEA Curriculum Vitae ELLA KALLAI

Name: KALLAI, Ella Viktoria
Date of birth:
21.08.1961
Adress: 2, Baita 3400, Cluj Napoca, Romania
E-mail: kallai@mail.dntcj.ro; research@alphabank.ro
Nationality: Romanian

EDUCATION

Dates: Jan 1995 - Jul 2000
Name and type of organisation: Université de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Laboratoire Macroeconomie et Analyse des Déséquilibres
Principal subjects: Growth theories
Level in national classification: PhD

Dates: Jul 1992 - Dec 2004
Name and type of organisation: Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Studies
Principal subjects: Labour Economics, Industrial Organisation, Econometrics
Level in national classification: State Certified Exam (rigurózní zkouška)
PhD

Dates: Sep 1996 - Jun 2001
Name and type of organisation: University Babes Bolyai, Cluj
Faculty of Mathematics

Principal subjects: Algebra, Statistics, Mathematical Analysis, Astronomy, Operational research
Level in national classification: MA

Dates: Sep 1980 - Sep 1984
Name and type of organisation: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Faculty of Cybernetics
Principal subjects: Statistics, Planning, Cybernetics, Mathematics
Level in national classification: MA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dates: Mai 2001-prezent
Name and address of employer: Alpha Bank Romania,
Calea Dorobantilor 237B, Bucuresti
Occupation/position held: Planning and research analyst, Head of Research Department since November 2003

Main activities and responsibilities:
To assess the economic environment and substantiate its impact on the banking business; to monitor bank products and services

Dates: March 2000-May 2001
Name and address of employer: ZEI, Center for European Integration Studies,
33, Walter Flex strasse, Bonn, Germany
Occupation/position held: Research fellow

Main activities and responsibilities:
Analyzing the adjustment process in Romanian regional labor markets (wage curve estimation, migration modeling, labor supply assessing)
Initiating a project on the effects of the local budgets on the households welfare
Elaborating the research project “The nature of growth in transition economies” with support from the European Community’s Phare ACE Programme 1998, using growth accounting methodology

Dates: Dec 1998-July 1999
Name and address of employer: Maison des Sciences Economiques,
Equipe Universitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative, Université de Paris I
, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Bd de l’Hopital 106-112, Paris, CEDEX 75013
Occupation/position held: Research Fellow

Main activities and responsibilities:
Conducting the project “Supply side adjustments in human capital accumulation in transition,” a cross country (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, The Baltic states) analysis of developments in schooling systems during transition from centrally planned economy to market economy and their effects on growth and labor mobility. The project was supported by the European Union’s Phare ACE Programme 1997.
Modeling and investigating the effects on growth of various market structures for labor and goods in the framework of a general equilibrium model.

Dates: Jan 1998-Dec 1998
Name and address of employer: The Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of The Czech Republic, Politickych Veznu 7, Prague, 11121
Anglo-American College, Prague
Occupation/position held: Researcher and lecturer

Main activities and responsibilities:
Elaborating a comparative study of labor supply in transition countries and European Union countries;
Analyzing the Romanian monetary policy since the beginning of transition;
Assessing the Romanian growth path during a decade of transition;
Investigating the effects of budget deficit and credit policy on money creation
Measuring the amount of seigniorage created by the National Bank of Romania
Conducting seminars in Labour Economics at post-graduate level
Teaching Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at graduate level

Dates: Oct 1993-Apr 1995
Name and address of employer: The Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of The Czech Republic, Politickych Veznu 7, Prague, 11121
Occupation/position held: Cercetator (part time), asistent

Main activities and responsibilities:
Building up a macroeconomic data base for transition countries;
Performing simulations on a partial equilibrium model describing the determinants of public and private education;
Conducting seminars in Microeconomics at post graduate level

Dates: Oct 1984-May 2001, including a leave for post graduate studies abroad
Name and address of employer: Institute for Computer Technique, Cluj-Napoca, Republicii 109, Romania
Occupation/position held: Researcher, project manager

Main activities and responsibilities:
Designing the C Compiler,
Implementing the multi user UNIX;
Conceiving an on-line interactive learning system for UNIX,
Implementing Unix network

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Language Skills
Mother tongue: Hungarian
Other languages:
Romanian (excellent reading, writing and speaking)
English (excellent reading, writing and speaking)
French (excellent reading, writing and speaking)
German (fair reading, writing and speaking)

Social skills and competences

Intercultural skills-I worked for many years in various countries
Presentation skills-I had presentations at many international conferences

Organisational skills and competences

Managing team work within various research projects funded by World Bank or European Community
Budget monitoring

Technical skills and competences

thoroughly prepared economist, specialized in economics of transition and the theory of growth
expert of the Romanian macroeconomic developments (real and money sector) since the beginning of transition
advanced knowledge in economic modeling, quantitative analysis and numerical simulations
mastery of econometric tools for data base analysis
good skills in preparing and presenting research results (scientific reports, discussion and working papers)
experience in teaching economics at undergraduate (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics) and graduate level (Microeconomics, Labor Economics)
ability in proposing and managing successful research projects funded by the European Commission, the Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology
sound background in mathematics
experienced software developer
Excellent computer skills (Windows)

Driving licence: Yes

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Member of European Association of Labour Economists (EALE)
Member of Global Development Network (GDN)
Referee for Labour Economics and GDN



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