WELCOME

Welcome to the homepage of the Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. By unifying excellence in research, authenticity in science, and a commitment to society, the institute network of the Academy is set to produce values for both national and international success in Hungarian and universal science. Building on our national research traditions, being part of the only full-time research institute network in Hungary, our primary aim is to play a fundamental role in promoting the common weal and in building the foundation for our future through valuable scientific achievements based on highly promising discovery research.
The Research Centre was established on January 1st 2012 with the merger of three academic institutes. The Institute of Economics, the Institute for World Economy and the Institute of Regional Studies remain independent in their scientific activities. They continue to fulfil their public tasks as defined in the Deed of Foundation at the highest scientific level.
Deed of FoundationThe Institute of Economics is committed to international standards of fundamental and applied research in economics. It has focused increasingly on the analysis of the contemporary market economy and the transformation of the Hungarian economy.

NEWS

Game Theory research group at CERS HAS is organising an interdisciplinary workshop on stable matchings and related topics. The workshop will be co-located (at least in time) with the SING8 conference on 16-18 July 2012 in Budapest. See the websites of both events: MATCH-UP 2012 SING8

IEHAS PUBLICATIONS

The Hungarian Labour Market
Review and Analysis 2011 Edited by
Károly Fazekas and György Molnár
IE HAS, National Employment Foundation 2011.

Mihályi, Péter: A magyar privatizáció enciklopédiája 1-2. kötet (Encyclopaedia of the Hungarian Privatization Vol. 1-2.)
Budapest: Pannon Egyetemi Könyvkiadó - MTA Közgazdaságtudományi
Intézet, 2010. With a summary in English.

BOOKS

Karsai Judit:Private Equity in Cee: The Development of Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry in Central and Eastern EuropeVDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, 2010.

Activity, Incomes and Social Welfare. A Comparison across Four New EU Member StatesEdited by Manuela Sofia Stanculescu and Tine Stanovnik
European Centre Vienna, Ashgate, 2009The Hungarian chapter is written by György Molnár and Viktoria Galla.

Green Book for the Renewal of Public Education in Hungary Editors: Károly Fazekas, János Köllő, Júlia Varga
Ecostat, 2009.
Order it from IE HAS Library for free

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Gabor Kezdi - Gabor Kertesi: The Roma – Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary
Zoltán Bakucs, Richard Markus: Supply Response on the Hungarian Pork Meat Sector
Stefan Bojnec, Imre Fertő, Attila Jámbor, József Tóth: Institutions, Policy Reforms and Efficiency in New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe
Zoltán Bakucs, Imre Fertő, Gábor Szabó: Contractual Relationships in the Hungarian Milk Sector
Imre Fertő, Csaba Forgács: Is Organic Farming a Chance for Family Farms to Survive?
Cseres-Gergely Zsombor: European Employment Observatory - EEO Review: The Employment Dimension of Economy Greening - Hungary
Csorba Gergely: Separating the Ex Post Effects of Mergers: an Analysis of Structural Changes on the Hungarian Retail Gasoline Market Former presentations

RESEARCH FOCUS

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Empirical Industrial Organisation Game Theory Globalisation, EU-integration and Convergence Macroeconomics and Growth Public Economics and Public Policies Economics of Education Labour Research Individuals Research Programs
Research Strategy 2008-2012

PRESS REVIEW

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 18 May 2012
Gábor Békés - László Halpern - Miklós Koren - Balázs Muraközy: Still standing: Global crisis and European firms

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 1 July 2011
The impact of the crisis on European firms - interview with László Halpern about the effects of the crisis on European business.

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 19 November 2010
Carlo Altomonte - Gábor Békés: Trading ain’t easy: How complex is it to trade goods?

Budapest Business Journal ¦ 15 October 2010
BBJ vol 18. nr. 19. p.6-7. Jeremie kick-starts VC - interview with Judit Karsai

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 14 March 2010
Holger Görg - László Halpern - Balázs Muraközy:
Shipping the premium beer farther away

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 23 February 2010
Zsolt Darvas:
Assistance to emerging Europe

Annual Reports

Annual Report - 2011
Publications of 2011
The Report of the External Advisory Board on the 2009 performance and future plans of the Institute for Economics of HAS

SEMINARS

IE HAS seminars
22 March 2012
Giacomo Corneo (Free University of Berlin):
Social insurance, work norms, and the allocation of talent

DATA SOURCES

Social science research databasespublished on-line by the Institute

NEW PUBLICATIONS (Compiler: Éva Bálint)

Chapters

Elek, P. - Köllő, J. - Reizer, B. - Szabó, A. P.: Detecting Wage Under-Reporting Using a Double-Hurdie Model. In: Research in Labor Economics. Vol. 34.: Informal Employment in Emerging and transition economies/eds. Lehmann, H. and K. Tatsiramos. Bingley: Emerald, 2012. pp. 135-166.

Fertő, Imre: Time-to-degree for management Ph.D. - a Hungarian case study. In: Knowledge and sustainable economic development/ eds. Bélyácz I., Fogarasi J.,Szabó K., Szász E. - Oradea/Nagyvárad: Partium K., 2012. pp. 541-552.

Fertő, I. - Forgács, Cs.: Employment growth in Hungarian food chains. In: Economic Science for Rural Development No. 27. 2012. Jelgava: Faculty of Economics, Latvia University of Agriculture, pp. 78-82.

Journal Articles

Bakucs, L.Z. - Fertő, I. - Fogarasi, J. - Tóth, J.: Farm organisation and efficiency in Hungarian dairy farms. Milchwissenschaft/Milk Science International, Vol. 67. No. 2. 2012. 147-150.

Bojnec, S. - Fertő, I.: Does EU enlargement increase agro-food export duration? The World Economy Vol. 35. No. 5. 2012. 609-631.

AGREEMENTS OF ACADEMIC COOPERATION AND EXCHANGE

Agreements of Academic Cooperation

» with CEU ECON to support joint activity in CEFIG
signed in September 2010
Agreement of Coopeartion CEU ECON website CEFIG website

» with the Institute of Economic Research of the Kyoto University signed in March 2010
Agreement of Cooperation KIER website

» with the School of Economics and Business Administration of the Bejing Normal University signed in Dec 2009
Agreement of Cooperation SEBA website
» with the Korean SNU KIEP EU Center signed in May 2009
Agreement of Cooperation SNU KIEP EU Center's website
» with the Institute of Economics - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences signed in June 2007
Agreement of Cooperation IE CASS website
in which parties mutually agreed to cooperate in joint researches, to exchange scientific knowledge and information, to host meetings and seminars, and encourage staff visitings.