More than one-third of the European Union’s population reported having a chronic health condition (CHC), and their proportion in the labour market is expected to continue to grow in the future. Using a linked employer-employee administrative database that...
From Ethnic Prejudice to Employment Discrimination: The Role of Small Firms as Mediators Gábor Kertesi – János Köllő – Róbert Károlyi – Lajos Tamás Szabó IZA DP No. 17901, May 2025 Abstract: Hungary’s sizeable Roma minority is hit by massive...
Subject: Call for Papers – 11th Workshop on Efficiency – Institute of Economics, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, September 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS 7th workshop on Experiments in social-science research. Organised...
Subject: Call for Papers – 11th Workshop on Efficiency – Institute of Economics, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, September 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public...
Research reveals why women-led farms are more sustainable Imre Fertő & Štefan Bojnec source: HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network – News – 2025.01.28. Despite women being more environmentally conscious in farming than men, they continuously face barriers. This...
Attila Lindner, our contributor is the recipient of the 2024 Gábor Kézdi Outstanding Young Researcher Award, presented by the Hungarian Society of Economics (MKE). This award is given to young Hungarian researchers who, through several studies on a specific topic,...
Keller, Tamás was awarded the Polányi Károly-Díj for the best publication of 2023. The winning article: Felix Elwert – Tamás Keller – Andreas Kotsadam Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on...
Tenure-track Research Position at HUN-REN KRTK Institute of Economics The HUN-REN KRTK Institute of Economics invites applications for a 3+2 year researcher position with the possibility of tenure. We are seeking candidates with a PhD in economics or related...
How do business associations support contract enforcement? Evidence from Hungary Károly Mike, István Boza, Gábor Tamás Molnár First published: 26 September 2024 Abstract Business associations (BAs) are often mentioned among formal private-order institutions that...
Our researcher Zoltán Bakucs is currently participating in a mission in Lusaka, Zambia to implement the project ‘Promoting productive water use and efficient water management in paddy fields’ in partnership with the Land and Water Division of the...
Biró Péter júliusban prezentálta előadását Koppenhágában az EURO 2024 konferencián. Optimality and fairness in kidney exchange programmes Abstract In this talk we survey some recent developments on the OR aspects of kidney exchange programmes (KEPs). These programmes...
Two papers of our researcher Tamás Hajdu are featured in an article in The Economist summarizing the scientific evidence on the impact of climate change on fertility. The featured papers: Tamás Hajdu – Gábor Hajdu: Temperature, climate change, and human...
Favoritism under multiple sources of social pressure Gábor Békés, Endre Borza, Márton Fleck In competitive situations between organizations, #favoritism occurs when a decision-maker unfairly benefits one party over another, in contexts like promotions or...
Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research BBVA Foundation Awards 2024 Best applied contribution in Operations Research Peter Biró (senior researcher at the en el Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and associate professor at the Corvinus...
The role of socioeconomic variables in the regional inequalities of COVID-19 mortality in Hungary Balazs Pager, Csaba G. Toth, Annamaria Uzzoli ABSTRACT: Hungary is one of the five countries in the World which were most affected by the pandemic in terms of...
Fortress Hungary has a surprising answer to its population crisis: Migration Quietly and without much fanfare, Viktor Orbán’s government is allowing more and more guest workers into the country. By CARLO MARTUSCELLI A cikket magyarul a HVG szemlézte: Politico:...
Regional resilience and the network structure of inter-industry labour flows Zoltán Elekes, Gergő Tóth, Rikard Eriksson Abstract This paper explores how the network structure of local inter-industry labour flows relates to regional economic resilience across 72 local...
The relationship between ESG ratings and stock market performance László Vancsura, Tibor Bareith Abstract The relationship between companies’ sustainable operation and their financial performance is currently a key area of research. However, the question arises: how...
Which sectors go on when there is a sudden stop? An empirical analysis István Kónya, Miklós Váry Highlights Sudden stops are identified as big drops in capital inflows, followed by recessions. There is a reallocation from non-tradable to tradable production after...
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits Judi Krekó, Dániel Prinz, Andrea Weber Highlights Earnings limits create a trade-off between their screening and distortionary effect. We study a policy in Hungary that reduced the earnings...
Shortest odd paths in undirected graphs with conservative weight functions Alpár Jüttner, Csaba Király, Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena, Gyula Pap, Ildikó Schlotter, Yutaro Yamaguchi Highlights The problem with conservative weights and negative edges forming a tree is in...
Poor housing quality and the health of newborns and young children Tamás Hajdu, Gábor Kertesi & Bence Szabó Abstract This study uses linked administrative data on live births, hospital stays, and census records for children born in Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to...
A Solidarity Mechanism to Allocate Stored Natural Gas in Crisis Dávid Csercsik, Anne Neumann Abstract The interruption of natural gas flows via pipeline to Europe in 2022 has demonstrated that supply crises pose a threat. Although member states have demonstrated unity...
The geography of the craft beer scene in Budapest Zoltán Bakucs – Imre Fertő International Journal of Wine Business Research Emerald Publishing Limited Article publication date: 6 June 2024 Abstract Purpose This paper aims to investigate the locational...
Permutation Tutte polynomial Csongor Beke, Gergely Kál Csáji, Péter Csikvári, Sára Pituk Abstract The classical Tutte polynomial is a two-variate polynomial ( , ) associated to graphs or more generally, matroids. In this paper, we introduce a polynomial ˜ ( ,...
Monetary policy and food price inflation: the case of Hungary Tibor Bareith – Imre Fertő Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies Article publication date: 31 May 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Abstract Purpose We analyze the role of...
Why do corporate farms survive in Central and Eastern Europe? Imre Fetrő, Štefan Bojnec. Ichiro Iwasaki, Yoshisada Shida Highlights The corporate farm survival may be one of the main drivers of changes in agricultural systems. The survival of corporate farms may be...
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys Tamás Hajdu Highlights This paper examines the effect of temperature on sleep duration. Exposure to heat reduces the amount of time spent sleeping. The effect of heat wave days is much stronger....
Performance evaluation of national and international kidney exchange programmes with the ENCKEP simulator Kristóf Druzsin, Péter Biró, Xenia Klimentova & Rita Fleiner Central European Journal of Operations Research Published: 10 May 2024 Abstract In this paper we...
Modeling interconnected social and technical risks in open source software ecosystems William Schueller and Johannes Wachs Abstract Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work...
