After graduating in 1999 from the Economics Faculty of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Lajos Zoltán Bakucs was admitted to the Management and Business Administration PhD Program of the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration (now Budapest Corvinus University), where in March 2005 he obtained the PhD degree. In September 2003, he became a young researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). Since 2013 he helds a senior researcher position in the very same Institute. His research activities focus on the marketing margins and price transmission of various agriculture and food products, agricultural prices, land market and the influence of the macroeconomic environment upon the agricultural variables, efficiency analysis and, more recently regional/rural development. He participated/participates in various international research cooperation (HAS-INRA, HAS-DGF, ECO-NET, Hungarian-Slovenian TeT , FP6, FP7 and H2020)
