The history of the event dates back to 2014, when the Faculty of Economics of TUKE began to organize the Research Seminar, which loosely followed the tradition of seminars organized for students of doctoral studies. During the first year, several individuals from the departments of the Faculty of Economics of TUKE spoke at the seminar. The involvement of members of individual departments (and eventually also experts from outside the faculty) was aimed at, in addition to presenting the results of their own scientific research activities, providing stimulating feedback on the presented works before such works are submitted to quality journals and also creating a space for cooperation, e.g. in the field of joint publications. By the end of 2015, many invited guests from academic and economic policy circles also spoke at the Expert Seminar.
Since 2016, with the intention of better promotion of this activity, i.e. regular performances of invited distinguished guests from the academic community, economic and political scene and economic and financial industry at the Faculty of Economics of TUKE, the Research Seminar has been transformed into the Košice Economic Forum, which is an activity of a purely academic nature and its intention is to activate an open discussion on a wide range of economic and social problems and economic challenges of the present time in Slovakia and abroad.
Vladimír Vaňo - General State Councilor of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
Topic: "We must rewrite the textbooks(?): Examples of tectonic changes in the analysis of financial markets and in the economy after a series of crises and wars"
Iveta Radičová former prime minister of the Slovak republic in 2010 - 2012, university professor and dean of the Fakulta masmédií Paneurópska vysoká škola v Bratislave.
Topic: "Modern social conflict and challenges for Slovakia"
Ivan Mikloš - leading man of economic transformation in Slovakia, former ministry of finance of the Slovak republic, chief economic adviser to the Ukrainian Prime Minister in support of reforms in Ukraine, holder of domestic and international awards.
Topic: "Europe and the world at the crossroad. Possible scenarios and their impact on Slovakia"
Brigita Schmögnerová - Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Vice-President for the Environment, Public Procurement and Administration of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, former ministry of finance of the Slovak republic.
Topic: "From gold standard through local and parallel currency to „sovereign money""
Ľudovít Ódor - member of the Slovak Fiscal Board, former member of the governing council of the National Bank of Slovakia, co-author of several reform concepts, including constitutional law, author of many publications at home and abroad.
Topic: "What have we learned from economic crisis about fiscal policy?"
Ján Fidrmuc - member of Department of economics at the Brunel University in London. Founder and director of the Institute for strategies and analyses (ISA) at the government office of the Slovak republic. Former member of the Center for Europe an Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn University.
Topic: "Measuring wellbeing:individual based approach"
Mikuláš Luptáčik - dean of the Národohospodárska fakulta Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave. Scientific director of the Institute for economic research in Vienna, emeritus professor on Ekonomická univerzita in Vienna and chairman of the Board for social sciences APVV.
Topic: "Analysis and Quantification of a New Fiscally Neutral European Tax"
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Iveta Radičová - former prime minister of the Slovak Republic
Elena Kohútikova - Chair of the Advisory Board of the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
Jan Hanousek - CERGE-EI, Mendel University in Brno & CEPR
Vladimír Vaňo - General State Councilor of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
Ivan Mikloš - former ministry of finance of the Slovak Republic
Július Horváth - professor of economics at the Central European University, Hungary
Ľuboš Pástor - Professor of finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Andrej Svorenčík - University of Mannheim
Martin Smatana - Director of the Institute of health policy, Ministry of health, Slovak republic
Steven Yamarik - Professor of economics, California State University
Zuzana Fungáčová - Senior Adviser v Bank of Finland
Štefan Kišš - Director of Institute “Value for money”, Ministry of Finance SR
Panel discussion
Svatopluk Kapounek - Vice dean for research, Faculty of Business Mendel University in Brno.
Štefan Rychtárik - risk analyst at Division of macroprudential policy at the National Bank of Slovakia.
Jiří Rusnok - governor of the Czech National Bank, prime minister of the Czech republic in 2013 - 2014.
Ivan Šramko - chairman of the Slovak Fiscal Board, former governor of the National Bank of Slovakia.
Branislav Saxa - director of Division of monetary analyses and monetary policy transmission in the Czech National Bank.
prof. Evžen Kočenda - professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of social sciences, Univerzita Karlova, Prague.
Brigita Schmögnerová - Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Vice-President for the Environment, Public Procurement and Administration of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, former ministry of finance of the Slovak republic.
Ľudovít Ódor - member of the Slovak Fiscal Board, former member of the governing council of the National Bank of Slovakia, co-author of several reform concepts, including constitutional law, author of many publications at home and abroad.
Peter Krištofík - dean of the Ekonomická fakulta Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici.
Ján Fidrmuc - member of Department of economics at the Brunel University in London. Founder and director of the Institute for strategies and analyses (ISA) at the government office of the Slovak republic. Former member of the Center for Europe an Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn University.
Jarko Fidrmuc - professor of international economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen (Germany).
Viliam Páleník - researcher at the Institute of Economics sat the Slovak Academy of Science. Director of Institute of employment.
Mikuláš Luptáčik - dean of the Národohospodárska fakulta Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave. Scientific director of the Institute for economic research in Vienna, emeritus professor on Ekonomická univerzita in Vienna and chairman of the Board for social sciences APVV.
Martin Kahanec - Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest and co-Founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava.