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 [...]
Outsourcing from the point of view of IT Supervision was be the title of a presentation delivered at the invitation of the Audit Section of the HEA and the Hungarian Institute of Internal Auditors by Gabriella Biró, Head of Department of IT Supervision, MNB on Monday, 23 September 2019. The slides of her presentation are [...]
János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary, Andrea Bártfai-Mager, Minister without Portfolio for National Asset Management and Mihály Varga, Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister gave the final speeches of the 57th Itinerant Conference of Economists in Nyíregyháza on 7 September 2019. During the 3 days of the largest annual conference of Hungarian economists [...]
The Economic Associations of Slovakia and the Czech Republic organized a joint professional conference in association with the Mendel University of Brno and the Hungarian Economic Association, taking place at the Mendel University in Brno on 11-13 September 2019. The conference financed by the Visegrad Fund also commemorated the 30th anniversary of the transition from [...]
The Hungarian students did well in the final of the V4 Economics Olympiad taking place in Prague on 10 September 2019. The international contest hosted by the Czech National Bank was financed by the Visegrad Fund and involved five students each from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary competing in economics. The 125 year old [...]
The 19th World Congress organized by the International Economic Association (IEA) will be held in Bali, Indonesia 3 - 7 July 2020. The conference will be chaired by Dani Rodrik, Professor of Harvard University who will take office as IEA President around that time. Papers for the triennial conference in all subjects of economics will [...]
Similarly to previous years, the opening and closing plenary sessions of the 57th Itinerant Conference of Economists and the full programme of Friday’s Financial Section will be streamed live this year as well. The presentations of the Conference will be accessible live via a dedicated Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mktvgy. Live broadcasting recorded by six cameras [...]
The Youth Committee of the HEA held reelections on 20 July 2019: the presidents and representatives of the Association’s member organizations elected aspiring candidates to fill vacancies due to expired mandates. As a result, former Vice President Ildikó Bencsik was elected to be President of the Youth Committee. The newly elected vice presidents include Szabolcs [...]
Sustainability and the economic, national economic and social challenges resulting from the climate change will be in the focus of the annual conference of the 125 year old Hungarian Economic Association (HEA). The 57th Itinerant Conference of Economists taking place at the University of Nyíregyháza on 5-7 September 2019 is expected to attract 800-900 professionals [...]
‘Improved productivity, increased employment and the introduction of additional groups of employees could be the basis for sustained economic growth’, said Gergely Baksay, Head of MNB Directorate for Fiscal and Competitiveness Analysis on Thursday at a professional forum organized by the Hungarian Economic Association. The competitiveness aspects of labour market and employment was the focus [...]
