We wish all our dear members, all the speakers of our conferences in 2017, all our supporters and cooperating partners a Merry Christmas, peaceful holidays and a successful and happy new year!

Both parties (i.e. the United Kingdom and the European Union, including Hungary) will lose on Brexit, so minimising those losses is an important task in the exit negotiations, said László Andor, head of faculty and associate professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and former member of the European Commission. He spoke at a conference [...]

The presidium of the Hungarian Judo Association gave a silver For Hungarian Judo award to Attila Borbély, member of HEA’s Supervisory Board and chairman of the Sport Economics section. The award was handed over by György Nagy, secretary general of the Hungarian Judo Association, in the Hungarian House of Sports. Besides numerous other sport-related activities, [...]

Corporate governance has a major effect on competitiveness as company managers can do much to improve the efficiency of resource management, said Gyula Pleschinger, chairman of the Hungarian Economic Association and member of the national bank’s Monetary Council at a conference titled Advanced Corporate Governance 2017. At the event organised by the University of Óbuda [...]

More than one hundred students of economies flocked from all corners of the country (such as Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Miskolc, Győr, Eger and Budapest), and also from areas inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in Serbia and Romania, to the seventh Meeting of Young Economists from the Carpathian Basin. The conference, organised by the Youth Committee of [...]

Mihály Varga, Minister for National Economy gave the Award for the Hungarian Economy for Éva Hegedüs, President and CEO of GRÁNIT Bank Zrt., Secretary-General of the Hungarian Economic Association, in recognition of her outstanding work for several decades in the financial and banking sectors. We congratulate our Secretary-General for this award! (Photo: www.origo.hu)

In what is now a tradition, the Hungarian Economic Association and the Secretariat of the Fiscal Council organised a conference aimed at presenting background studies prepared for the Fiscal Council. The event with an audience of more than a hundred peolpe, was held on 12 October 2017, in the Kossuth Club. Presentations and background studies [...]

A book dedicated to Béla Csikós-Nagy, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and former President and Honorary President for Life of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), was published by the Association. Titled The work of an outstanding economic reformer, 1938-1989, the publication was presented in the club of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by colleagues, [...]

Gyula Pleschinger, President of the Hungarian Economy Association, member of the Monetary Council of the Hungarian National Bank will also participate at the annual meeting of the Slovak Economic Association (SEAM2017 conference) in Kosice, 29-30 September 2017. The opening lecturer of the conference will be Robert F. Engle, Nobel laureate American economist. Our president will [...]

The 55th Itinerant Conference of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) was closed on 9 September in Eger. The three-day event broke several records, with two plenary rooms, 17 specialised sections, over 160 presenters, and a total audience of almost 900 people. The number of participants, presenters and sections has never been so high before. For [...]