Béla Balassa
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Béla Balassa (1928-1991, born Budapest) was a Hungarian economist and world-renowned professor at Johns Hopkins University; most famous for his work with Paul Samuelson (Balassa-Samuelson effect).
Studies
- 1948 Magyar Kereskedelmi Akadémia, Budapest
- 1951 Budapest University
- 1958, 1959 Yale University, MA and Ph.D. in economics
Biography
- 1962-67 teaching assistant at Yale University
- 1967- Professor of political economics at Yale University (Baltimore, USA)
- 1966- the World Bank's advisor
- 1970-71 editor of REStat; chairman of the Association of Comparative Economics
- 1979-80 chairman of the Association of Comparative Economic Studies
- 1980 Institut de France, Laureate
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