Dr. Vigvári András

scientific principal contributor
Development and Methodology Institute

Biography

Place of birth, time:
Budapest, 1955.

Educational level, studies, scientific grade:

Karl Marx Economic University , Budapest, certified high-school teacher 1979,
Budapest Economy University, financial academic specialisation economist, 1997,
Karl Marx Economic University, Budapest, university doctor 1982,
Hungarian Science Academy, Budapest the candidate of economic science, 1988,
Miskolc University, dr. habil, 2003,

Career:

1979-1982 university assistants, Karl Marx Economic University
1982-1988 heads of department, Ministry for Interiors, Educational Department

1988-1991 scientific heads' of department, Economic and Sociologist's Institute, Trade Union

1991-1992 independent scientific heads of department, Ministry of Finance Economic, Political and Project Institute
A strategic plan - head of department, Budapest Bank Co. is 1992-1997.
A Managing Director, inner cheque, Postbank Co. is 1997-1998.
From 1999 scientific principal contributor, General Accounting Office, Development and Methodology Institute

Language knowledge

English, Russian

Dr. Vigvári András CSc. financial academic specialization economist, General Accounting Office, methodological and scientific adviser of Development Institute, the reader of the Budapest Technical and Economical Science University's and Miskolc University's financial department. He obtained a bank manager degree in the international banker derivational suffix. In the bigger part of his career he was university instructor, but he also made an eight-year excursion in the bank sector.

His research areas: municipal financies, the theory of the financial cheque. The domestic one is one of the best-known expert of municipal financial affairs. He expounds his tutorial activity in different institutions' gradual, postgraduate and doctoral training. He pursues a domestic and foreign country activity on the area of municipal financial affairs.

Tutorial activity

Associate professor, Budapest Technical and Economical Science University, Financial and Accountancy Department of Miskolc University.

Book, book part, other proof-read independent publications

Poland's agriculture. Agroinform Budapest 1983. page 45.
Single questions of the economically ruled system. Political Economy Pamphlet 47. number Bp. 1985. page 88.
Indebtedness and debt management. Sketch from an important question of the recent past of the Hungarian economy. In: Debt (studies from the past of our debt, his present and his future) GT notebooks SZGTI Budapest 1990.

Political transformation and privatization. SZGTI Budapest is your GT willow. 1992. page 159.
The situation of the public finance. Budapest Bank Study 7. Bp. 1992. page 48.
The Hungarian settlement's local governments' situation, Budapest Bank Studies 17. Bp.  1992. page 35.
Municipal farming in the 90ies. Thoughts to the economic crisismanagement Budapest  1994.  pages 221-234.

From the economic policy and the local governments' farming self-reliance. In: the county goes into Europe? Lectures and remarks 1995. October 26-27 Harkány conference. Editor: Pál Kovács Ilona.  1996.  pages 40-45.
The program budget. The modernization of the Hungarian local governments' financial farming. (Educational handbook.) (with co-authors)  Urban Institute and the City Research Ltd. 1999.

Dissertations

Economic management system, or economic mechanism.
The single questions of the economically ruled system. University doctoral treatise. Manuscript, Budapest 1981. page 230.

Challenges and possible answers: onto the reformation of the local governments' farming. Habilitation treatise. Manuscript Miskolc 2002. page 77.

A foreign language journal article, a study appeared on foreign countries

Inflation and Unemployment in the Hungarian Economic Policy. Discussion Papers 106. Labour Institute for Economic Research (TTT) Helsinki 1991. pages 23-36.
Privatizácijá v Vengriji i jijó obsesztvennoje hozjejsztvije. (in Russian) Problémi tyeoriji i praktyiki uprávlényijá  1992. the 2. number, pages 4-10.

Appeared on Hungary foreign language journal article, study

• Macroeconomic processes. (with co-authors) Budapest Bank Working Papers. Budapest 1993. page 54.
• Macroeconomic processes in 1993. (with co-authors) Budapest Bank Working Papers. Budapest 1993. page 42.
• Macroeconomic processes in 1994. (with co-authors) Budapest Bank Working Papers. Budapest 1994. page 51.
• Municipalities in Hungary. Budapest Bank Working Papers. Budapest 1995. page 37.
• Fiscal Decentralization in Hungary: Experiences and Challenges. Economic Trends in Hungary an ECOSTAT Publication.
• Competitiveness, absorption ability and sub-national government. In: Attila Ágh (ed.) (2005): Institutional Design and Regional Capacity-Building in the Post-Accession Period. Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies, Budapest. 227-258. p.
• Absorption capacity of local self-governments in Hungary. In: Attila Ágh (ed.) (2005): Institutional Design and Regional Capacity-Building in the Post-Accession Period. Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies, Budapest. 277-304. p. (co-author Árpád Rózsás)
• A Forgotten Factor of the Competitiveness of Hungarian Economy. Problems of Reforms of Hungarian Local Government System. Business Studies, Volume 3, Number 1. (2005) pp. 41-66. Miskolc University Press.

His other official and social assignments, his functions:

Consciousness social science journal advisory body membership from 1992,
The member of Hungarian Science Academy Public Body;
Ministry for Home Affairs IDEA Administration Reform Program financing leader from 2002,
A prime minister's administrative and municipal advisory body member, from 2004
Hungarian Economy Association, cheque department presidency membership 2005