KTI Seminar: Alison Schultz - Guns and Kidneys: How Transplant Tourism Finances Global Conflict

2022.12.01.

13.00-15.00 Abstract This paper investigates the impact of organ trafficking on local conflict using georeferenced data on conflict events and hand-collected data on local transplant infrastructure in eight countries known for illegal transplanting. I exploit exogenous variation in kidney demand measured by the number of U.S. waiting list patients, their payment capacity, and their physical […]

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022

2022.11.24.

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022 Structural Transformations in a Crises-driven World Economy 24–25 November 2022 Budapest, Hungary / Online Central European University (CEU) Nádor street 15, 1051 Budapest Website: www.svoc-conference.webnode.hu/ Organisers: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and Democracy Institute, Central European University INTRODUCTION […]

Reginar: Borders, Regional Cooperation and Geopolitics in Times of Conflict

2022.09.30.

  Reginar is the new English-language online webinar of the Institute for Regional Studies. In the first session four excellent scholars of our Institute, James W. Scott, Péter Balogh, Péter Reményi and Zoltán Pámer talk about borders, regional cooperation and geopolitics in times of conflict and about Hungarian perspectives. The event is part of the […]

61st ERSA Congress 2022

2022.08.22.

About the Congress The ERSA congress “Disparities in a Digitalising (Post-Covid) world – Networks, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development” will host a large variety of themes in entrepreneurship, social-economic, regional-urban economics, regional development, and regional policy topics like local governance and institutions. The Congress has also the ambition to have a stronger interdisciplinary dimension featuring contributions and […]

2nd Visegrad conference

2022.06.07.

  2nd Visegrad conference Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies 7th and 8th of June, 2022 Venue: online (zoom) and KRTK VGI (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4. K011-12 rooms) The second Visegrad conference concentrates on various actual areas of cooperation and comparison between the four countries. The Visegrad economies form […]