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Prof. Dr. Ing. Menbere Workie Tiruneh, PhD.

Email: menbere.workie@savba.sk
Telephone: 02/ 5249 5080
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• Menbere Workie is Professor (Associate) of Finance and Economics at Webster Vienna Private University (WVPU) in Austria and part-time Senior Researcher (member of the Ph.D. Committee and Ph.D. Supervisor) at the Institute of Economic Research (Slovak Academy of Sciences). Previously, Menbere was the Head of the Empirical Research Department and the Macro-Financial Analysis Department (2010-2020) at the Institute of Economic Research.

  Menbere Workie has extensive international academic experience. Menbere was appointed Professor of Economics by the President of the Slovak Republic in May 2014. He has held several positions as Full Professor of Economics at the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Full Professor of Economics at the School of Business Management in Slovakia and Adjunct Professor for the Ph.D. programme at the Department of Finance (Masaryk University) in the Czech Republic. He has also held the position of International MBA Professor at the City University of Seattle, European Graduate Programmes.

  In recognition of his academic achievements, Menbere Workie has been awarded the Academic Excellence Award four times: "Academic Excellence Award" Webster Vienna Private University (2022), "Rector's Certificate of Appreciation", for outstanding contribution to the reputation and quality of City University's European programmes (the School of Management in Slovakia ((2012), President's Distinguished Instructor Award (2009) and “Excellence in Teaching Award” (2006) from the Board of Governors of City University of Seattle, USA.

  His teaching and research interests include economic growth and transition, international finance, international economics, and development economics.

  Životopis v súbore na stiahnutie

  • Convergence of states and regions
  • Economic growth and stability
  • Empirical economics
  • World economy
• • Overshooting the Maastricht Criteria: External Imbalances and Income Convergence in the European Union, 2018, 221 s., ISBN 978-1-53613-585-5
  • Forecasting labour market needs in the Slovak republic : theoretical foundations and empirical results, 2012, 181 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-204-2
  • Determinants of Economic Growth and Competitiveness: Challenges and Opportunities, 2011, 258 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-187-8
  • The structure of the economy and economic growth: How to fill a theory by numbers, 2011, 269 s., ISBN 978-80-8925-666-2
  • Regional Disparities in Central and Eastern Europe, 2010, 397 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-180-9
  • The Development and Perspectives of the World Economy. The Recovery of the World Economy: Reality or Myth?, 2010, 312 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-178-6
  • The Development and Perspectives of the World Economy. The Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Causes – Costs – Remedies, 2009, 280 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-175-5
  • The Development and Perspectives of the World Economy. Turbulences on the Financial Markets and the Dilemma of Economic Policy, 2008, 301 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-166-3
  • The Development and Perspectives of the World Economy. The Benefits of Information Technology and the Costs of Climate Change, 2007, 332 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-159-5
  • The Development and Perspectives of the World Economy. Global Competitiveness and Energy and Demographic Crisis, 2006, 302 s., ISBN 80-7144-152-X
  • Impact of Information Technology on Growth and Employment: Theoretical and Empirical Views. With the Applications to the Effects of Commercial Model of Microsoft Slovakia on the Slovak Economy, 2004, 92 s., ISBN 80-7144-141-4
  • Overshooting the Maastricht Criteria: External Imbalances and Income Convergence in the European Union, 2018, 221 s., ISBN 978-1-53613-585-5
  • WP 73 The determinants of errors and omissions in a small and open economy: The case of Slovakia, 2015, 49 s., ISSN 1337-55
  • Labour market in Slovakia: Analysis and forecasts, 2014, 228 s., ISBN 978-80-7144-233-2
  • WP 22 Country Study: Replacement Rates in Slovakia, 2009, 32 s., ISSN 1337–5598
  • Globalization and Slovak Economy, 2006, 378 s., ISBN 80-7144-150-3
• • Analyse of Regional Disparities of SR and Forecast of Future Trends
  • Capital Flight and its Impact on the Slovak Economy
  • Knowledge-based economy, competitiveness, human capital, innovation, economic growth, empirical analyses
  • LM needs - Forecasting Slovak Labour Market Needs in the Medium Term - Up to 2025
  • The Transformation of the World Economy, Economic Development and Technological Progress in the Era of Globalization
    
• • AIM - Adequacy of Old-Age Income Maintenance in the EU (6RP)
  • Analyse of Regional Disparities of SR and Forecast of Future Trends
  • Balancing out the imbalances: redifining the view on macroeconomic imbalances under the european governance framework
  • Capital Flight and its Impact on the Slovak Economy
  • Distributional Effects of Misreporting in International Trade in Services
  • Follow the Money - Deciphering the Link between Shadow Banking Sector and the Illicit Financial Flows
  • Globalization, integration and accomplishment of transformation – determining routes of economic development in Slovakia and creation of economic assumptions for modernization of the Slovak society
  • Illicit capital flows and external macroeconomic imbalances
  • LM needs - Forecasting Slovak Labour Market Needs in the Medium Term - Up to 2025
  • New Trends of Globalisation in the World Economy and Demands on Competitiveness Strategy of the Slovak Economy
  • Prediction of Economic and Financial Crises in the Wake of the Recession in the European Union
  • The Role of Exchange Rate Channel in the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Case of Standard and Non-standard Monetary Policies
  • Vision and Strategy of Development of Slovak Society