Senior research fellow | CERS Institute for Regional Studies
Full-professor | University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Finance and Accounting
Email: gal.zoltan@krtk.hu; galz@ktk.pte.hu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uQ13NTsAAAAJ&hl=hu
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BIO
Zoltan Gal is a full professor in Finance at the University of Pécs, Hungary and a senior researcher at the Centre for Economic and Regional Research. He is the president of the Hungarian Regional Science Association, member of the European Regional Science Association Council (ERSAC) and regional ambassador of the Global Network on Financial Geography to Eastern Europe. He was an invited expert at European Commission DG Research and project manager of INTERREG, ESPON and in macro-financial FP7 projects. He has been a senior researcher at the Center for Regional Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1993, and since 2012 at the Center for Economic and Regional Research. He has been a visiting scholar at a number of prestigious universities including the University of Oxford, UK and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He holds a double MA degree from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and New York State University, Albany, USA, and a PhD in Financial Geography. His research fields include regional finance, international finance, international economics, regional economics, financial & economic geography, and regional innovation.
Publications
Full list of publications: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10001296
Gál Z. (2010) The Golden Age of Local Banking – The Hungarian Banking Network in the Early 20th Century. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. 202 p. (ISBN:978-963-693-035-6) http://www.rkk.hu/en/topicalities/new_book_of_zoltan_gal.html
Gál Z. (2019) Az FDI szerepe a gazdasági növekedés és a beruházások területi differenciálódásában Magyarországon. [The role of FDI in the territorial differentiation of economic growth and investment in Eastern and Central Europe: Case of the Hungarian regions]. Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review), vol. 0(6), pages 653-686. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.18414/Ksz.2019.6.653
Gál Zoltán, Fazekas Gábor: Az ázsiai közvetlentőke-befektetések sajátosságai a visegrádi országokban: a beruházási stratégiák és a termelékenység összefüggései [Asian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Visegrad Countries: Relationships between investment strategies and labour productivity]. TERÜLETI STATISZTIKA 61: (1) pp. 105-130. http://www.regscience.hu:8080/xmlui/handle/11155/2378?locale-attribute=en
Gál Z., Ptacek, P. (2011)
The role of mid-range universities in knowledge transfer in non metropolitan regions in Central Eastern Europe. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 19:(9) pp. 1669-1690. IF: 1.228 DOI, WoS, https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2011.586186
Sass M, Gál Z, Juhász B. (2018)
The impact of FDI on host countries: the analysis of selected service industries in the Visegrad countries, POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES 2018:1 p. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2018.1445332
Gál Z , Schmidt A (2017)
Geoeconomics in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications of FDI In: Munoz J M (szerk.)Advances in Geoeconomics . 344 p. London; New York: Routledge Europa Economic Perspectives Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. pp. 76-93. https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Geoeconomics/Munoz/p/book/9780367876630
Gál Zoltán, Marciniak Robert: Budapest ‒ the development and specific features of outsourcing, offshoring, and the global business services sector, In: Mamica, Łukasz (szerk.) Outsourcing in European Emerging Economies: territorial embeddedness and global business services, Routledge (2021) pp. 98-113. https://www.routledge.com/Outsourcing-in-European-Emerging-Economies-Territorial-Embeddedness-and/Mamica/p/book/9780367893835
Pósfai Zs, Gál Z, Nagy E: Financialization and inequalities, Financialization and inequalities: The uneven development of the housing market on the eastern periphery of Europe. In: Fadda, S; Tridico, P (szerk.) Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World, Routledge of Taylor and Francis Group (2017) pp. 167-190. https://www.routledge.com/Inequality-and-Uneven-Development-in-the-Post-Crisis-World/Fadda-Tridico/p/book/9780367594978
Gál Zoltán, Ptáček Pavel (2019) The role of mid-range universities in kowledge transfer and regional development: the case of five central European regions, In: Varga, Attila; Erdős, Katalin (szerk.) Handbook of Universities and Regional Development, Edward Elgar pp. 279-300. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-universities-and-regional-development-9781784715700.html
Gál Z , Kovács S Zs (2017) The role of business and finance services in Central and Eastern Europe In: Lux G , Horváth Gy (szerk.) The Routledge Handbook to Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe . 340 p. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 47-65. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-to-Regional-Development-in-Central-and-Eastern-Europe/Lux-Horvath/p/book/9780367660048
Gál Z. (2015) Development of international financial centres in Central and Eastern Europe during transition period and crisis: The case of Budapest, REGIONAL AND LOCAL STUDIES/STUDIA REGIONALNE I LOKALNE 2015:(2 (60) pp. 53-80. (2015). https://doi.org/10.7366/1509499526003
Gál Z., Burger Cs. (2013)
A vidék bankjai?: A magyar takarékszövetkezeti szektor hitelezési aktivitása. [Banks of the countryside? Lending activity of te Hungarian cooperative banking sector]., KÖZGAZDASÁGI SZEMLE 60:(4) pp. 373-401. http://www.regscience.hu:8080/xmlui/handle/11155/325; https://ideas.repec.org/a/ksa/szemle/1377.html