Peter Tóth, PhD., MA

Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Finance

Department: Department of Economic Policy

Position: Researcher

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Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person

Second degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Political Science, Master of Arts, 2001, Central European University in Budapest

Third degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Institute of Economics (CERGE-EI), Prague, Czech Republic

Current and previous employment

Researcher
University of Economics in Bratislava
2021 December - 2023 August

Senior Researcher
National Bank of Slovakia
2014 October -

Senior Economic Analyst
Institute for Financial Policy, Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
2012-2014

Economic Analyst
Czech National Bank
2006-2012

Junior Researcher
Institute of Economics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2005-2007

Assistant Professor
University of Economics in Bratislava
2023 September -

Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

Data Science Summer School
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain
2022

PhD Course in Causal Machine Learning
School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana
2023

Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

Number of defended theses

Diploma (second degree): 2

Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 6

Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 37

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Peter Tóth, Andrej Cupák, Marian Rizov, Measuring the efficiency of VAT reforms: a demand system simulation approach (2021), Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 1218–1243, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa052

Marotzke, Petra, Anderton, Robert, Bairrao, Ana, Berson, Clémence and Tóth, Peter (2020). "Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms" The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 20, no. 2, 2020, pp. 20180254. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2018-0254

Bodnár, K., Fadejeva, L., Iordache, S., Malk, L., Paskaleva, D., Pesliakaitė, J., Todorović Jemec, N., Tóth, P., Wyszyński, R. (2018) How do firms adjust to rises in the minimum wage? Survey evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. IZA J Labor Policy 7, 11 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40173-018-0104-x

Dybczak, K., Tóth, P., and Vonka, D. (2014). Effects of price shocks on consumer demand: Estimating the QUAIDS demand system on Czech household budget survey data. Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, 64(6), 476-500.

Arnoštová, K., Havrlant, D., Růžička, L., & Tóth, P. (2011). Short-term forecasting of Czech quarterly GDP using monthly indicators. Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a úvěr), 6, 566-583

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Tóth, P. (2017). Nowcasting Slovak GDP by a small dynamic factor model. Ekonomický časopis, 65(02), 107-124. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=524630

Havrlant, D., Tóth, P., & Wörz, J. (2016). On the optimal number of indicators–nowcasting GDP growth in CESEE. Focus on European Economic Integration. Vienna: Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), (4), 54-72.

The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Co-investigator: APVV-20-0359: “Covid-19 pandemic, macroeconomic development, food security and household wellbeing”, obdobie 2021 – 2024.

Co-investigator: VEGA 1/0781/21: "Priemyselná politika v podmienkach deindustrializácie a automatizácie", obdobie 2021 – 2024.

Co-investigator: APVV-16-0321: “Food Security, Poverty and Vulnerable Groups: The Role of Policies”, obdobie 2017 – 2021.

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