Béla Balassa

Béla Balassa (born April 6, 1928 in Budapest , † May 10, 1991 ) was a Hungarian-American economist . He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University and formulated the Balassa-Samuelson effect together with Paul A. Samuelson . He is also known for his publications on Revealed Comparative Advantage .

Life

Balassa began studying economics at the Magyar Kereskedelmi Akadémia in Budapest in 1948 before moving to the University of Budapest in 1951 . He finally obtained his master's degree in this subject in 1958 from Yale University in New Haven , where he was awarded a Ph.D. degree the following year . After working as an assistant professor at the same location from 1962 to 1967, he was appointed professor for economic policy . From 1970 to 1971 he was also editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and chairman of the Association of Comparative Economics, for which he was reappointed from 1979 to 1980. In the same year he was also laureate of the Institut de France . Balassa also brought his knowledge in the field of economics to use as a consultant to the World Bank since 1966 .

Honors

• 1982: Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

literature

• Bela Balassa, Professor At Johns Hopkins, Dies , The Washington Post , May 11, 1991.
• Michael Szenberg; Ramrattan, Lall, eds. (2004), Reflections of Eminent Economists , Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 26-37, ISBN 1843766280 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Harms Prize. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.