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DPP's Professor Kahanec Wins ESET Science Award 2025 for Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia

October 20, 2025
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Martin Kahanec, Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Director of the Shattuck Center for Human Rights at CEU, has been awarded the ESET Science Award 2025 in the main category “Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia.”

An international jury chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Edvard Moser selected Martin Kahanec for his distinguished contributions to labour economics, migration, and public policy.

Professor Kahanec is the first laureate from the social sciences and humanities to receive this prestigious accolade.

New Study by DPP Professor Kahanec Reveals How EU Labour Markets Converge — and Diverge

October 6, 2025
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DPP Professor Martin Kahanec, together with Kamila Borseková and Samuel Korony (both Matej Bel University), has published a new article in Environment & Planning A: Economy and Space (EP-A):

Decision Tree Insights into Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Convergence in EU Labour Markets
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X251352697

Michael Dorsch Publishes New Paper

October 2, 2025
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Michael Dorsch, Head of the Department of Public Policy, has co-authored a new paper together with former CEU PhD student, Steffen Simon Bettin in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

DPP Professor Evelyne Hübscher featured in The Economist

September 17, 2025
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We’re delighted to share that Professor Evelyne Hübscher’s work was featured in the late August edition of The Economist.

see here: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/24/fear-the-deficit-populism-doom-loop