Professor Laslo Halpern - a leading European specialist in the field of macroeconomics and international competition - came to I.I. Mechnikov ONU with a three-day visit in November 2012. Senior students and graduates of the specialty International Economic Relations attended lectures that covered the topics: “The main problems associated with accumulation of state debt in foreign currency” and “Procedure of macroeconomic imbalance – reacting to the crisis in the EU”. In addition, Laslo Halpern held a number of consultations with professors of the department of World Economy and International Economic Relations at ONU.
The Professor’s visit to the Odessa University was scheduled as part of a cooperation agreement between the Institute of Mathematics, Economics and Mechanics and the Institute of Open Society (Budapest, Hungary). Laslo Halpern is a professor of the Central European University and deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Hungary. Professor Halpern authored a range of different scientific research papers on the theory of the exchange rate, macroeconomic theory of stabilization, the behavior of companies in the world economy.
