A life course interview with Árpád Kovács, Lifetime Honorary President of the HEA was conducted for Radio Kossuth. The interview was aired on Tuesday, 5 November 2019 as part of the series The Greats hosted by Edit Szentgáli. The interview can be accessed via this link.  

Szeged will host the 58th Itinerant Conference of Economists in 2020. The decision was made at the Board Meeting of the Hungarian Economic Association on Tuesday. After ten years, the city of Szeged situated on the banks of the River Tisza will host the largest annual conference of Hungarian economists on 24-26 September 2020. The [...]

The decision to set up the Fintech and Financial Culture Section of the Hungarian Economic Association was adopted by the Board Meeting of the HEA on 22 October 2019.   The participants of the inaugural meeting held at the headquarters of the Hungarian Banking Association in July 2019 elected Éva Pintér (University of Pécs) as President, [...]

This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded in recognition of outstanding research in development economics including the fight against poverty. ‘Remarkably a young female economist, Esther Duflo is also among the laureates this year’, Éva Hegedüs, Secretary General of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), Chairperson and CEO of Gránit Bank Zrt. [...]

The majority of the analysts working alongside the Fiscal Council (FC) predict around 4.5 percent growth this year with a slowing rate prognosed for next year, the joint Budapest conference of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and the FC revealed on Friday. As Árpád Kovács, Chairman of the Fiscal Council explained, the conference is organized [...]