Project number: K143858 In this proposed project we would like to focus on matching and exchange markets, where central coordination mechanisms have been established for many application areas in the past decades. The seminal paper of Gale and Shapley on college...

Project number: K135195 In our research, we examine the career paths of employees. In a first approach, the career paths of individuals are examined using network analysis method. Stages of individual career paths, the completion of an education and jobs, are...

Project number: K132484 Infant and child health are important predictors of various outcomes in later life, including adult health, educational and labor market outcomes. In this research, we examine the prevalence of and inequalities in the most important chronic and...

Project number: FK134351 There is a scientific consensus that the Earth’s climate is changing and becomes warmer so rapidly that it is unprecedented in the history of humankind. Climate change has serious potential impacts on natural and human systems, and it affects...

Project number: PD146385 In this research, I examine the effectiveness of central banks in the V4 countries (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) in dealing with food price rises and oil price increases. In the V4 countries, households spend a larger share of...

Project number: FK135460 Supply chains are truly everywhere. This is especially true for the agribusiness sector. Well, first there was a general concern about how one single firm operates. Then, there was a shift in focus from the single firm to two firms influencing...

Project number: FK138143 Inequality slows down aggregate growth and human capital accumulation, besides individuals have strong preferences against inequality. That is why one of the main topics of economic research is to explain why inequality has increased in the...

Project number: SA-50/2021 Mitigating climate change and managing its effects poses a complex problem for our society, which can be examined experimentally with the help of so-called climate games. The key question of climate play and other social dilemmas is the...

Témaszám: Starting 150086   A fogyatékossággal vagy tartós egészségi problémával élő emberek akár már gyerekkortól kezdve számos, az életük egészét végigkísérő kihívással szembesülnek. Ezek az akadályok korlátozzák a társadalmi és munkaerőpiaci részvételüket. A...

Project number: PD138497 The aim of this project is to investigate the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on labor market inequality in the host country. The research examines how different subgroups of workers are affected by the presence of FDI and...

Project number: SNN142441 There is growing literature on the effect of environmental payments, including the support of Agri-Environment Climate Scheme. However, the results of these studies have been rather inconclusive. In addition to inconclusive results, the...

Project number: FK134573 It is well known that life expectancy in Hungary lags behind European Union (EU) average by about five years. Looking at some major diseases in detail, mortality after a heart attack exceeds EU average by half, diabetes-related mortality by...

Project number: FK138015 Economic development and technological change have brought unprecedented challenges to societies. We believe that our results would contribute to developing public policy tools and interventions that could tackle these challenges. The findings...

Project number: FK143041 The aim of this research project is to get a deeper understanding of the impact foreign direct investment has on firms in the local economy. I consider two specific indirect effects, which can be important, but which we know less about. The...

Project number: K124858 Central European (CE4) countries share a fairly similar historical legacy and they are all exposed to the same major external economic and political forces. Yet, more recently the pace of their economic development is diverging significantly....

Project number: K146694 It is said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. But camels are sturdy animals which perfectly adapted for their hot and unforgiving environment. Consequently, many decision, evaluation and organizational tasks are delegated to...

Project number: LP2021-2/2021 Matching problems under preferences have been studied extensively by economists, game theorists, computer scientists and mathematicians since the seminal paper by Gale and Shapley appeared in 1962. The main motivation for the research in...

Project number: FK143247 The popularity of local food has been increasing in Hungary in recent years, and COVID has, if possible, strengthened this even further. The question is, however, how this positive trend will develop in the future, and whether a breakthrough...

Project number: KKP144193 Some companies are more successful than others. These differences are even larger between countries: a typical German company operates more efficiently than a typical Hungarian one. One of the explanations for corporate success is good...

Project number: K138970 Inequalities are encoded in our relationships. We make friends with similar people, companies of similar development do business with each other. This is an essential feature of social and business relationships, which makes large networks in...

Project number: FK145991 Population change in a given period depends on four components. These are the number of birth per woman (fertility), the length of life span (mortality), the balance of migration (net migration) and the share of the different age groups in the...

Project number: K143420 The main research questions are related to themes involving international competitiveness, wage growth and economic growth. What is the role of foreign direct investment in wage changes? What is the role of sectoral composition in the evolution...

Project number: FK142941 Over the last few decades the importance of cognitive and social skills to individual earnings and other labor market outcomes has been established by a large number of studies spanning various countries. Recent studies have also shown that...

Project number: FK143064 The general question taken up in this project is at the core of regional science: why are some regions more vulnerable to external shocks and able to develop new growth paths than others? This is crucial to understand as diminishing economic...