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Summer Workshop at IE HAS on 22-23 August 2011. Please read more for the preliminary programme and further details.

A Chinese-Hungarian conference titled Economics of Crisis, Education and Labour was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on June 30 and July 1 2011. The conference which was organized by the IEHAS was the second in the series of annual meetings of scholars from Beijing Normal University School of Government and Business Administration (BNU SEBA) and the Institute of Economics HAS. The two institutions have an official long-term cooperation agreement. The program of the present conference covered 23 presentations on the most recent research results of Chinese and Hungarian participants.
The presentations and papers can be downloaded here.

As part of the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition(FET'11), there will be a session on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) in Budapest on 4 May 2011. IE HAS Game Theory research unit organises an accompanying informal workshop on COMSOC on 3 May. Read more....

Further news

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

PRESS REVIEW

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 - 2010
Publications of 2010
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
8 December 2011
Vincent Vicard
The Growth and Volatility of French Exporters

DATA SOURCES

Social science research databasespublished on-line by the Institute

NEW PUBLICATIONS (Compiler: Éva Bálint)

Book

Békés, G. -Halpern, L. - Koren, M. - Muraközy, B.: Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis. The third EFIGE policy report. Brussels: Bruegel, 2011. Full text
Chapters

Bálint, M. - Szabó, Zs. - Horn, D.: Hungary. In: The last safety net. A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe /Bahle, T. et al. Bristol: Policy Press, 2011. pp. 94-99.

Journal Articles

Bakucs, L. - Brümmer, B. - von Cramon-Taubadel, S. - Fertő, I.: Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany. Applied Economics Letters Vol. 19. No. 8. 2012. 785-788.

Bojnec, S. - Fertő, I.: Complementarities of trade advantage and trade competitiveness measures. Applied Economics Vol. 44. No. 4. 2012. 399-408.

Fertő, I. - Soós, K. A.: Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade. International Journal of Economics and Business Research Vol. 4. No. 1-2. 2012. 132-148.

Muraközy, B. - Halpern, L.: Firm size and the extensive margin. Economic and Business Review Vol. 13. No. 1-2. 2011. 27-50.

Darvas, Zs. - Weizsäcker, J.: Financial transaction tax: Small is beautiful. Society and Economy Vol. 33. No. 3. 2011. 449-473.

Hermann, Z. - Kopasz, M.: The effect of social capital on wage income: a multi-country analysis. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Vol. 2. No. 2. 2011. 3-26.

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.