Botond Kőszegi#
| Membership Number: | 3981 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.personal.ceu.hu/staff/Botond_Koszegi |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012, August - present: Professor at CEU
- 2010, July - 2013, June: Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 2006, June - 2010, June: Associate professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 2000, July - 2006, June: Assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 2002 , September - 2003, May: Visiting assistant professor , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavioral economics
- Economic theory
Honours and Awards
- Major (competitive) grants:
- ERC Starting Grant #313341, "Behavioral Theory", 2012 - 2017
- NSF Grant “Economic Models and Applications of Reference-Dependent Utility,” SES-0648659, 2007-2010 (joint with Matthew Rabin)
- Hellman Family Faculty Fund, 2003 - 2004
- Sloan Dissertation Fellowship, 1999
- NBER Aging Fellowship, 1998 - 1999
- MIT Economics Fellowship, 1996 - 1998
- Honors:
- 2015 Yrjö Jahnsson Award
- 2014 Best Teacher Award, Central European University
- 2013 Best Teacher Award, Central European University
- 2012 QJE Excellence in Refereeing Award
- 2010 Best Mentor Award, UC Berkeley
- 2009 Finalist for Best Mentor Award, UC Berkeley
- Hicks-Tinbergen Medal 2008, for the best paper published in the Journal of the European Economic Association in the years 2006/2007
- Fall 2007 UC Berkeley Intramural Soccer champion (as member of team Slutsky)
- 1996 Bok Center Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University
