Ing. Andrej Cupak, PhD.

Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

APVV grant No. 20-0359: “Covid-19 pandemic, macroeconomic development, food security and household wellbeing“. Current crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic sends shockwaves throughout the entire economy and society globally. In this project we focus on the effects of the crisis on welfare of consumers, food security, commodity and food prices, as well as on functioning of food supply chains. The project will study mainly the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Slovakia in particular. Recent Household Finance and Consumption Survey microdata will be used to quantify marginal propensity to save and to consume, households’ risk of falling into poverty and insolvency using state of the art microeconometric techniques. Demand models will be applied to Household budget survey data to estimate recent demand elasticities, which will be then employed to simulate the effect of food price volatility and other economic uncertainty (such as changes in employment of household member and shocks to household income) on household welfare changes. We will also use the estimated demand model parameters and predicted budget shares to simulate the effects of the pandemic on diet quality, which is one of the measures of food security and building on the household model of health production we will link the households’ diets to the health outcomes. Recent crisis has a strong effect on volatility of commodity and food prices which we will study using complex time-series econometric methods. The project will also investigate the effects of crisis on the efficiency of functioning of food supply chains and specifically on horizontal and vertical price transmission. Duration: 2021-2024. Role: principal investigator.

VEGA project No. 1/0221/21 "Interest rates in the environment with central bank digital currency ". The project focuses on the study of potential benefits and dangers for banking sector, financial markets and real economy, which could be associated with the modification of the interest rate transmission process of Monetary Policy in the Eurozone due to Central Bank Digital Currency implementation. Duration: 2021-2023. Role: investigator.

APVV grant No. 16-0321: “Food Security, Poverty and Vulnerable Groups: The Role of Policies“. A project on analysing determinants of poverty, demand for food and identification of vulnerable household groups from the food security perspective. Duration: 2017-2020. Role: investigator.

FP 7th project of the EU No. 290693: “FOODSECURE". An interdisciplinary research project to explore the future of global food and nutrition security“. Duration: 2012-2017. Role: investigator.