Béla Sipos

Béla Sipos (born Sopron, 7 April 1945), Hungarian economist, statistician, professor, a University of Pécs professor emeritus (2013).
Early life and career
His parents (Dr. Béla Sipos and Dóra Szakács) moved from Transylvania to Hungary in 1944. He came from an intellectual family. He has two sisters Dóra (1947) and Judit (1951). Béla Sipos lived in Budapest until 1971, then moved to Pécs. He attended elementary school in Budapest, II. district, Margit Boulevard (1951-1955), then Budapest II., Bear Street (1956-1959). He graduated from Árpád High School in Budapest 1963, with excellent results, then he went to Karl Marx University of Economic Scienses in Budapest where he received an MSc diploma in economics 1967. He was awarded the People's Republic scholarship at his III. and IV. years of the University. His wife is Katalin Rédey dr. (1970) a statistician.
His field of research had been forecasting since 1968. He was the first in the world to prove that the Kondratiev cycle (the long cycles of 50-60 years in economy) cause can be justified in the time series of the socialist countries. The debate on his Doctoral Dissertation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences could not take place before 1987, not before Kondratiev was rehabilitated. Kondratiev and others were executed based on false charges in 1938. „Kondratiev's reputation has improved greatly since his formal rehabilitation by the Soviet government in 1987 and the discovery of new works he had written while in prison”.
He has also been involved in genealogical studies regarding his ancestors. His research results and resources have been sent to the National Archives of Hungary since 2013. The overall title of the archival material is “dr. Béla Sipos' family history collection, including digital registry and bibliography images created during the research. From 1772 to the 21st century. OL. 03/63/2013.” He has been publishing his research results since 2015 in the MACSE MATRICULA online genealogical journal.
Career
He started as a junior clerk at Magyar Optikai MÅ±vek (national business corporation based on applied optics) in 1967, later starts research at the Marx Károly University of Economics (MKKE) at the Department of Industrial Organization. In 1971 he moves to Pécs and becomes an assistant lecturer at the local branch of the same university (MKKE) at the Faculty of Economics. He makes academic progress and becomes lecturer / assistant professor (1975) and reader / associate professor (1981), than professor (1989). More recently he became professor emeritus at the same university now named University of Pécs.
Between 1982 and 1996 he was a supervising teacher for post-graduate students in the subject planning and analysis. His public engagements included membership in the Rector's Council and the University Council as well as elected chairman of the Public Service Council. He had been appointed with different responsibilities: (1997-1999) general and academic, (2000-2003) general and integrational, (2003-2007) applications. During his career he had been a prognostic expert (1968-1971) at Ganz Electric Works, and a professional advisor in price prediction (1980-1989) at Pécs Leather Factory.
Recognition
His scientific paper as a student received 1st place in 1967 at the Proceedings of the Hungarian National Scientific Conference. His work was recognized by awards of excellence: the Industrial and Contstruction Industry Statistical Salesman Review in 1979, Fényes Elek Prize in 1980 by Statisztikai Szemle , by the Minister for Culture in 1988. He was involved in the rehabilitation of economics professor Farkas Heller (1877-1955) and his school and wrote several studies and two books on the subject. He was awarded the Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship between 1998 and 2002. The President of Hungarian Republic, Árpád Göncz, awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic on April 20, 2000, as a sign of personal appreciation for decades of outstanding scientific and public life. In 2003 and 2007 he was awarded the Gold Ring of the University Pécs.
Notable works
* Károly Borli - Béla Sipos: Forecasting for Industrial Enterprise Using Methods of Mathematical Statistics ; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1977
* „Production Functions-Forecasting for Enterprise” ; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1982
* Corporate planning II. Corporate Forecasting ; Tankönyvkiadó, Bp., 1983
* Corporate planning V. Industrial plan calculations: Computerized case studies (In Hungarian); Tankönyvkiadó, Bp., 1984
* Price Forecast ; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1985
* Empirical Research and Forecasting Based on Hungarian and World Economic Data Series; Chapter 10. 119-126. In: The Long-Wave Debate. Selected Papers; Weimar, GDR. Springer-Verlag, 1985
*Sipos Béla. „Prognosztification and Empiric Research of Kondratiew Cycles”. Studia Oeconomica Auctoritate Universitatis Pécs Publicata. Pécs. 22. p., Pécs, 1987
* Labor projections I-II. ; Országos MÅ±szaki Információs Központ és Könyvtár (OMIKK), Bp., 1987
* Rédey Katalin-Sipos Béla: Product line optimization using linear programming (LP) ; Országos MÅ±szaki Információs Központ és Könyvtár (OMIKK), Bp., 1988
* Heller Farkas. Hungarian scientists of the past. ; Akadémiai Kiadó. Bp., 1990
* Corporate Forecasting: Making market and production forecasts”, ; Janus Pannonius Egyetemi Kiadó, Pécs, 1994
* „Corporate Forecasting: Theory - methodology - software ; Janus Pannonius Egyetemi Kiadó, Pécs, 1999
* „Empirical research of long-term cycles”. STATISZTIKAI SZEMLE 75: 119-128., Bp., 1997.
*Sipos Béla - Kiss Tibor. REGAL: Expert system for multiple linear regression analysis. STATISZTIKAI SZEMLE 76: 35-49. Bp., 1998.
*Kiss Tibor -Sipos Béla. „ExpS for Windows, a software application”. STATISZTIKAI SZEMLE 78: 146-164., 2000.
*The Long term Cycles of Economic Life in Hungary and in the World Economy: In: Part I. Innovation in Hungary. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Regions and Economic Development: International Experiences and Hungarian Challenges. Ed.: Attila Varga and László Szerb; PTE., 2002
*„Analysis of long-term tendencies in the world economy and Hungary”. STATISZTIKAI SZEMLE 80: 86-102. 2002.
*Sipos Béla-Kehl Dániel. „Secular Trends and Long Cycles in the US Economy”. DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE 5: 3-12. 2007.
*Sipos Béla - Kehl Dániel. „Potential Impacts of Changes in per Capita GDP”. DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE 7: 43-52. 2009.
Number of Publications: 211

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