Csaba Horváth
Personal Data:
Date/ Place of Birth:	Kemecse, Hungary, 1974
Marital status:	single
Phone:	280-98-62
e-mail:	contact@netposta.net
Studies
1995-1998 - Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Faculty of Economics, M. Sc. in Economics; major: Finance; minor: Actuarial Sciences; Diploma with Honour
1993-1998 - Rajk László College for Advances Studies, Budapest
1992-1995 - Budapest University of Economic Sciences, B. Sc. in Economics
1988-1992 - „Széchenyi István” Specialized Secondary School, Nyíregyháza, Hungary 
Language Skills
English, Russian (medium level state exam with ESP in economics)
Schools competitions
1992 - National Schools Competition in Economics, first prize
1992 - University Scientific Competition, Microeconomics, Budapest University of Economics, tenth prize
Scientific Student Conferences
1995 - The role and scope of the fiscal policy in the macroeconomic conditions of the European Monetary Union
1996 - The credibility of target zone systems; devaluation expectations and mean reversion in the ERM, 1988-95
Other papers
1998 - A comparative study of different zero coupon yield curve estimation methods, a case study of the Hungarian government bond market - thesis
1999 - The network externalities approach in IO - A Monte Carlo simulation case study
1996 - Bankruptcy prediction with discriminant analysis
Conferences, seminars
1996 - IX. International Symposium on Inventory Research, Budapest
1999 - MSDN developer conference, Application development under Office 2000, Budapest
1999 - Windows DNA developer conference, Budapest
1999 - Data Mining (SAS Institute Hungary)
1999 - Web Shopping East '99: e-business and e-commerce solutions, Budapest
Study trips
1997 - Microeconometrics - the econometrics of cross-section and panel data, Summer School of Economics, Spring Seminar, Poland; Professor Steven Pudney, University of Leicester
1997 - Modern Approaches to Applied Econometrics, Summer School of Economics, Poland; Professor Wojciech W. Charemza, University of Leicester
1998 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Summer School of Economics, Poland; Professor Jerzy D. Konieczny, Wilfried Laurier University, Canada
1998 - Advanced Microeconomics, Summer School of Economics, Poland; Professor Jossi Spiegel, Professor Yossi Spiegel, Bergals School of Economics, Tel Aviv
Scholarships
1992/93 - „Skála-BKE” talent-scout prize, third prize
1994/95 - „Skála-BKE” talent-scout prize, second prize
1995/96 - „Skála-BKE” talent-scout prize, third prize
1994/95 - special scholarship at the University
1995/96 és 1996/97 - State Scholarship, University
Prizes
1995 - Scientific Student Conference, first price (economic policy)
1996 - Scientific Student Conference, second price (finance)
1997 - XXIII. National OTDK, Scientific Student Conference, Hungary, first prize (finance); award of the Minister of Finance, Hungary
1997 - XXIII. National OTDK, Scientific Student Conference, Hungary, first prize (economic policy)
1997 - XXIII. National OTDK, Scientific Student Conference, Hungary, award of the Hungarian Economic Committee
1997 - „Pro Scientia” prize
1998 - scholarship of the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Foundation
1998 - University Scientific Award of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Publications
A multi-country analysis of aggregate inventory behaviour, International Journal of Production Economics , vol. 59 (1999), pp. 1-11.; co-author: prof. Attila Chikán
Professional experience
1998- National Bank of Hungary, Department of Monetary Policy, Monetary Analysis Division (Information Technology, intranet development, MIS, EIS, financial and capital market analysis, economics)
1996-1998 - Hungarian Government Debt Management Agency, financial market analyst
1997 - National Bank of Hungary, Department of Economic Research, Modeling Division, research assistant (statistics, econometrics)
1996 - statistical research and data management in a research project („The micro-structure of the Hungarian production sector”) of the Department of Business Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Computer skills
1994-1997 - software/hardware maintenance and user consultancy in a PC-based computer lab
Programs, operation systems used: DOS, Windows 3.x/95/98/NT, Word, Excel (also programming), PowerPoint, Access, Outlook (also programming), Quattro, Quattro Pro, PcGive, Statgraphics, BMDP, SPSS, Statistica, Econometric Views, LIMDEP, WordPerfect, Quarterdeck QEMM, Archiving utilities, Norton Utilities, numerous other utilities, Setup Factory, Visual Help Pro, SnagIt, Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, WebExpress, Frontpage Editor, Netscape Composer, AOLPress
Programming languages: Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal, BASIC, Delphi, EViews Command Language, Satistica Command Language
Internet: WWW, FTP, TELNET, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CGI
homepage: surf.to/csaba, www.geocities.com/wallstreet/9403
Other skills
driving licence, typing
Courses at the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies
1993/94 - Intermediate microeconomics and game theory (Péter Eső, Ph.D., Harvard University)
1994/95 - Mathematical foundations of econometrics (László Hunyadi, Budapest University of Economics Sciences (BUES), Department of Statistics)
1995/96 - Econometrics (László Hunyadi, BUES, Department of Statistics)
1995/96 - Exchange rate theories (Zsolt Darvas, National Bank of Hungary)
1995/96 - Actuarial mathematics (István Kerényi, Colonia Insurance LTD)
1996/97 - Advanced econometrics (Gábor Kőrösi, Central European University, Budapest)
1996/97 - Monetary economics, central bank independence (István Hamecz, National Bank of Hungary)
1996/97 - Bond markets and interest rate derivatives (Tamás Makara, BUES Department of Finance)
1997/98 - Bank Financial Management, BANKFIM (Júlia Király - László Harmati, International Training Center for Bankers)
1997/98 - Valuation (György Martin Hajdu, Concorde Securities LTD)
1997/98 - Topics in monetary economics (István Hamecz, National Bank of Hungary)
1998/99 - Selected issues in Industrial Organization (Péter Bárczy, International Business School)
Other courses
1997 - Yield curve estimation (International Training Center for Bankers)
1997, 1998 - BANKMASTERS (bank financial management simulation via the internet), semifinal
1997 - Technical Analysis Seminar (Dow Jones Telerate)
1997 - Reuters Terminal (Reuters Hungary)
1999 - Controlling in Commercial Banks (International Training Center for Bankers)
1999 - VAR – value at risk: new advances in risk management (International Training Center for Bankers)
Fields of interest
- internet, e-business, e-commerce
- internet/intranet application development
- web-marketing, web-design
- information technology, education and consulting
- business intelligence, groupware technologies
- decision support technologies, management information systems (DSS, MIS, EIS, OLAP)
- data base management, data mining, data warehousing
- computers, programming, application development
- quantitative financial analysis
- risk management 
- yield curve analysis
- statistics, econometrics simulation techniques