Empirical Industrial Organisation

Leader: Havas Attila

Description of research area

The overall research goal of the group is to examine the organization of individual markets (economic sectors) and the behavior of market participants. The focus of the analysis is on two actors: the company and the state, which influences the markets and the operations of the sectors with policy instruments. The group’s researchers analyze the causes and processes of changes in companies’ management, financing, ownership relationships, size (horizontal and vertical mergers and splits), scope of activities (innovation, separation of activities within and outside the company). Approaches that reveal patterns of economic behavior include both theoretical and empirical research methods.

Group members: Antal-Pomázi Krisztina, Karsai Judit, Somogyi Róbert

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Featured publications

Daimer S, Havas A, Cuhls K, Yorulmaz M, Vrgovic P: Multiple futures for society, research, and innovation in the European Union: jumping to 2038, Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8 (2): 148–174 (2021)

Havas A, Schartinger D, Weber K M: Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48: 100754 (2023)

Molnár Gy, Havas A: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Tackling Marginalization with a Complex Approach, in: Nicholls A, Ziegler R (eds): Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 175–207 (2019)

Schimpf G-C, Mildenberger G, Giesecke S, Havas A: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Housing for All?, in: Nicholls A, Ziegler R (eds): Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 109–148 (2019)

Karsai J: Government venture capital in central and eastern Europe, Venture Capital, 20 (1): 73–102 (2018)

Karsai J: Propped up by the Government: The Recent Evolution of the Early-Stage Equity Finance Market in Hungary, in: Klonowsky, D. (ed.): Entrepreneurial Finance in Emerging Markets: Exploring Tools, Techniques, and Innovative Technologies. Cham: Springer Publishing, pp. 251–267. (2020)

Karsai J: Government financing of startups, in: Lingelbach, D. (ed.): De Gruyter Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 245–264. (2022)

Gautier A, Somogyi R: Prioritization vs zero-rating: Discrimination on the internet, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 73: 102662 (2020)

Somogyi R, Vergote W, Virág G: Price competition with capacity uncertainty – feasting on leftovers, Games and Economic Behavior, 140: 253–271 (2023)

Sandrini L, Somogyi R: Generative AI and deceptive news consumption, Economics Letters, forthcoming (2023)

Krisztina Antal-Pomázi, Pál Valentiny: Competitive economists. ECONOMIC REVIEW 70 (6): 647-671. (2023)

Pál Valentiny: How innovative are Big Tech companies? In: Valentiny, P; Antal-Pomázi, K; Berezvai, Z; Nagy, Cs I (ed.) Competition and regulation 2022, Budapest, KRTK Institute of Economic Sciences (2023), pp. 108-144.

Pál Valentiny: The coronavirus epidemic and competition regulation. ECONOMIC REVIEW 70 (4): 398-431. (2023)

Pál Valentiny: Market and government failures: the changing relationship between industrial policy and competition policy interventions. In: Valentiny, P; Berezvai, Z; Nagy, Cs I (ed.): Competition and regulation 2020, Budapest, Institute of Economics, KRTK (2020) pp. 62-90.

Pál Valentiny: Competition in the retail market of network services. In: Valentiny, P; Nagy, Cs I; Berezvai, Z (ed.) Competition and regulation, 2018. Budapest, MTA KRTK Institute of Economics (2019) pp. 116-140.

Pál Valentiny: Economics in the application of law. ECONOMIC REVIEW 66 (2): 134-162. (2019)

Pál Valentiny: Coase picture in a different way: the focus is on public services. ECONOMIC REVIEW 65: 4 pp. 346-381. (2018) 

Antal-Pomázi, Krisztina: Economic methods in law enforcement and regulation. (2021) Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Economics and Business Informatics

Antal-Pomázi, Krisztina: Corporate Interest in Antitrust Enforcement In: Klara, Cermakova; Simin, Mozayeni; Eduard, Hromada (szerk.): Proceedings of the 13th Economics & Finance Virtual Conference, Prague: International Institute for Social and Economics Sciences (IISES), International Society for Academic Studies (2020), pp. 41-52.

Antal-Pomázi, Krisztina: On incentives related to differentiated pricing. ECONOMIC REVIEW 67 (3): 244-262. (2020)

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