Andrej Cupak

Andrej Cupak is a Slovak Associate Professor at the Department of Banking and International Finance, Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Economics in Bratislava. He holds advanced degrees in Economics and Management from Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra and has worked as a Senior Researcher at National Bank of Slovakia since 2020.

His research focuses on financial literacy, behavioral economics, gender differences in financial decision-making, and retirement savings. Recent work explores crypto-asset investments through environmental/social lenses.

• 2024: Environmental and social attitudes in crypto-asset investments
• 2022: Investor confidence & financial literacy interactions
• 2021: Cross-country financial literacy variations
• 2021: Gender differences in risky asset behavior
• 2019: Financial literacy's causal impact on retirement savings
• 2018: Gender gap decomposition in financial literacy

Cupak has participated in multiple research projects including:

• APVV-23-0329 (Principal Investigator): Financial literacy & information sources
• APVV-21-0174 (Investigator): Rural development & agricultural employment
• VEGA 1/0607/21 (Investigator): Banking regulation in Eurozone
• VEGA 1/0221/21 (Investigator): Interest rates with CBDC
• APVV-20-0359 (Principal Investigator): Pandemic impacts on food security

He has supervised 19 bachelor's and 10 master's theses, contributed to microeconometric research, and conducted STATA workshops at the University of Economics in Bratislava.