Cecilia Hornok

Dr. Cecilia Hornok is a Researcher at Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Her research in international trade emphasizes the role of non-tariff trade barriers, such as trading time or administrative obstacles, in shaping trade relationships.
Her work focuses on globalization and healthy behavior, and how international trading influences the productivity and markup of firms.
More recently, she has also worked on research projects on the relationship between firm productivity and modern management practices and how labor market policies influence employment fluctuations.
Since 2018 she has also been a post-doc fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization.
Before joining the Kiel Institute, Cecília Hornok worked as a research associate at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, earlier as a pre-doc research fellow at the University of Linz in Austria and, before embarking on her doctoral studies, as a central bank economist.
She earned her doctoral degree in Economics from the Central European University in 2011 with a thesis on international trade barriers.
Her research interests include international trade and non-tariff barriers, the impact of globalization on firm behavior, and, more recently, management practices and firm performance.