According to the National Tax and Customs Office, the Hungarian Economic Association received HUF 515,625 from 58 private persons who decided to donate 1% of their annual personal income tax to support our work this year. We are grateful for the donations and continue to count on them in the spring of 2019. [...]

The 56th Itinerant Meeting of Economists was closed with a presentation by Liam Benham, Vice President of IBM Europe. The conference held in Debrecen featured two plenary and 19 section meetings. The fascinating presentations and thought-provoking roundtable discussions were attended by an audience of almost 900 in total. This, and the fact that there were [...]

Olympic gold medallist gymnast Krisztián Berki and speed-skater Viktor Knoch will be among the speakers of the Sport Economics Section of the 56th Itinerant Conference of Economists to take place on Friday, 7 September 2018 from 9 a.m. in the Kölcsey Centre in Debrecen.     The town of Debrecen will host the 56th Itinerant Conference [...]

The Czech Economic Society invites submissions from all fields of economics and finance for its 10th biennial conference to be held at the University of Economics, Prague, in Prague, Czech Republic, on 1st December 2018. The conference is organised in cooperation with the University of Economics, Prague, and the Czech National Bank. It is supported [...]

This summer will be a time of major encounters. Budapest is celebrating the 80 year old Margaret Island Open Air Stage with colourful programmes including well-known foreign and Hungarian artists and concerts. Similarly to last year, the members of the Hungarian Economic Association will be offered 20 percent discount on tickets bought for the unique [...]

Rezső Nyers, 95 has died. He was an economist and politician, who helped to develop the New Economic Mechanism in 1968. He was former Vice President of the Hungarian Economic Association. He was member of the Economic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute of Economics of HAS from 1974, [...]

Radical Business Model Transformation - Gaining the Competitive Edge in a Disruptive World This is the title of a book published by Pallas Athene Books, written by three outstanding authors. Carsten Linz is an executive (SAP) and expert of innovation-led business model transformation; Professor Günter-Müller-Stewens is a teacher of strategic management and head of Management [...]

The Slovak Economic Association (SEA) is soliciting papers for its 2018 annual conference, to be held at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 21–22, 2018. Research papers from all fields of economics are welcome. Please submit a draft paper or an extended abstract in pdf-format by June 15, 2018 at http://www.slovakecon.sk/seam2018. Decisions [...]

The Hungarian Economic Association held its ordinary Annual General Assembly on Friday, 25 May 2018. The Assembly took place in the IBM Budapest Lab Conference Hall by an attendance rate of over 92%, where the delegates of the county organisations and the sections of the Hungarian Economic Association adopted the 2017 report on HEA’s financial [...]

As it has been widely announced in the news, the rules of data processing have been significantly tightened in the countries of the EU as of 25 May 2018, including Hungary as well.  As a controller, the Hungarian Economic Association naturally strives to ensure full conformity with the GDPR. As regards its form of operation, [...]