Národohospodárska fakulta Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave

The College of Commerce was established in Bratislava in 1940. Since then, it had been renamed on several occasions (first to Slovak College of Commerce in 1944, second to College of Economic Sciences in 1949, then to College of Economics in 1953 and finally to University of Economics in 1992) – partly due to its changing profile and focus and partly due to the socio-economic changes in the country. Our faculty, the Faculty of National Economy, bears its name since 1980 – its roots, however, date back to 1940, when it was established as Institute of National Economy.

Our department’s origins lie in 1950s. Then, the department was not yet an independent department, but its future members had already started to teach the courses that would later become the key courses of our specialisation under the study programmes of the Department of Finance. The first predecessor of our department, the Department of Money Circulation and Currency was established in the academic year of 1969/1970 under the leadership of Professor Otto Sobek. Due to changing political and social climate in the former Czechoslovakia, the department was abolished the following year. The department’s modern history started in 1990 – alongside the initial stage of the process of transition towards democracy and market economy in Czechoslovakia, when the Department of Currency, Credit and Banking was established. In 1991 it was renamed to Department of Money and in 2001 the department’s name was changed to its current form, the Department of Banking and International Finance. Therefore, in academic year 2020/2021, our department will celebrate both its 30^th anniversary, as well as 50 years since it was first established.

List of Heads of the Department of Banking and International Finance:

1990 – 1994 prof. Ing. Otto Sobek, CSc.

1994 – 1997 prof. Ing. Irena Hlavatá, CSc.

1998 – 2000 prof. Ing. Anežka Jankovská, CSc.

2001 assoc. prof. Ing. Božena Chovancová, PhD., caretaker Head of the Department

2001 – 2003 assoc. prof. Ing. Mária Klimiková, PhD.

2003 – 2007 prof. Ing. Anežka Jankovská, CSc.

2007 – 2020 prof. Ing. Eva Horvátová, CSc.

2020 – assoc. prof. Ing. Jana Kotlebová, PhD.

Department of Banking and International Finance is proud of our graduates, many of whom have proceeded to become very successful figures in both domestic and international financial institutions, in science and in economic policy.

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External Doctoral Students

Name	Position	E-mail/Tel. number
Barbara Rašiová, MSc.	External PhD. studen
Ing. Miloslav Paracka	External PhD. studen
Ing. Nina Sljuka	External PhD. studen

External Associates

Name	Company
Illit Ilja	Capco
Orviská Marta, prof. Ing. PhD.	UMB Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Horváth Roman, prof. Ph.D.	Charles University, Czech Republic
Haiss Peter R., doc. Mag. Dr. MBA	WU Wien, Austria
Hartwell Christopher A., prof. Dr.	Bournemouth University, Great Britain
Sessions John, prof. PhD.	Newcastle University, Great Britain
Tirpák Marcel, Ing. PhD.	European Central Bank, Germany
Stavárek Daniel, prof. Ing. Ph. D.	Szilesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Molyneux Philip, prof.	University of Sharjah, UAE
Štefaňák Gabriel, Mgr.	Dukascopy Europe, Latvia
Sokol Martin, assoc. prof. Dr.	Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Svitek Martin, Ing. PhD.	Erste Group Bank AG, Austria
Matušovič Marián, Ing. PhD.	VÚB Asset Management a.s., Slovakia
Reľovský Branislav, Ing.	National bank of Slovakia
Gavura Miroslav, Mgr.	National bank of Slovakia
Moravčík Martin, Ing.	TRIM Broker, Slovakia
Viktorín Stanislav	X-Trade Brokers DM S. A., Slovakia

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Department of Banking and International Finance teaches both at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. At Bachelor’s level, together with the Department of Finance, our department offers the study programme Finance, Banking, and Investment and the bachelor’s course Finance taught at the Faculty of Business Management, as well as the course Financial Markets and Banking, which is offered as a part of the joint study programme Economics and Law, which is administered in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at the Comenius University. At Master’s level, the department offers study programme Banking, and in cooperation with the Department of Finance the study programme International Finance, which is taught in Slovak and in English (joint degree with Nottingham Trent University, England), as well as the study programme Global Finance in English (double degree with the National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok, Thailand). Furthermore, the department also offers the master’s courses Regulation and Bank Supervision, and Financial Instruments and Innovations to the students of study programme Law and Economics, which is organised jointly with the Faculty of Law at the Comenius University. At PhD level the department jointly offers the study programme Finance and Banking.

The department’s core fields of research include financial markets (money, bond, stock, commodity, derivatives, and FX markets), collective investment, banking, monetary policy, and international finance. Research activities of the department focus on a wide scale of analyses in the areas of economic integration, financial innovations, digitalization, green economy, income inequality, monetary policy transmission channels, managed currency depreciations, financial intermediation and financial literacy, behavioural finance, capital flight or money laundering. Members of the department have regularly been awarded research grants as a part of the national VEGA and KEGA frameworks, have regularly applied for APVV research grants and are members of different research teams as a part of frameworks such as COST, Visegrad Fund, National Science Centre grants (Poland), GACR (Czech Republic), Erasmus+, SCIEX (Swiss rectors‘ conference grant), EU funded research projects. Apart from these projects, young scientists, and PhD. students at the department also participate at the University of Economics institutional research projects, as well as National Bank of Slovakia’s research projects.

Department’s current research project

VEGA 1/0221/21 Interest rates in the central banks'digital currency environment
VEGA 1/0607/21 Countercyclical tools of banking regulation in euro area
APVV – 20-0359 Covid-19 pandemics, macroeconomic development, food safety and households wellbeing

The department has also developed a wide-ranging cooperation with socio-economic practise – represented by demand-oriented projects, consultations, and scientific expertise. In cooperation with Tatra Banka and the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Economics, the department organises practical course ‘Bankademy’, which focuses on retail and corporate banking.

The results of research activities of the department members are regularly presented at international conferences, published as scientific monographs, textbooks, articles in international conference proceedings and papers in renowned scientific journals.

Department also organises bi-annual international scientific conference ICCBIF (International Conference on Currency, Banking and International Finance), which is impacted in the Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Students of the study programme Banking also regularly compete in European and Worldwide rounds of the Rotman Trading Competition (Italy, Canada) and have repeatedly achieved prominent placements at this competition.

Our graduates are very successful on the labour market, they are employed by international institutions (i.e. ECB, Bloomberg, Macquarie Group, Honeywell International), as managers in prestigious departments of Slovak financial institutions (audit firms, banks, pension management companies, stock traders) or in civil service.

You can find us: 3^rd floor, block C (old building) Phone: +421 2 672 91 334