Eszter Horváth, former president of the Zalaegerszeg Youth Organization of the HEA received the Young Economist Award established by the Zala County Organization of the Hungarian Economic Association for the first time during the graduation ceremony of the BBS Zalaegerszeg Faculty of Business Administration on 5 July 2019. The board of the Zala County Organization [...]

A joint roundtable discussion entitled Assessment of the Current Situation and Future Potentials of the European Semester from the Aspect of Organized Civil Society was held by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Hungarian Economic Association on Friday, 28 June 2019 in the HEA Community Centre in Budapest. The participants were greeted [...]

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 [...]

New MNB recommendation on internal defence lines and the expected changes of outsourcing rules was be the title of a professional event organized by the Audit Section of the HEA and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA Hungary) supported by the internal audit working groups of the Hungarian Banking Association and the Association of Hungarian [...]

The workshop on New Forms of Employment in Europe organized by the Labour Section and the International Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association on 18 April 2019 including two presentations and a discussion focused on the impacts and consequences of the rapid robotics and AI developments on the concept and changing economic and social [...]

Éva Hegedüs, Chairperson and CEO of GRÁNIT Bank, Secretary General of the HEA was elected as the new Social Chair of the Hungarian Water Polo Federation. ‘I was born in Eger, and my connection to water polo began there’, Éva Hegedüs told the website Waterpolo.hu.  ‘I used to be very proud of the achievements of [...]

The Causes and Consequences of Wage Consolidation - this was the title of a professional conference organized by the Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section and the Labour Section of the 125 year old Hungarian Economic Association, was hold on 13 June 2019 in Budapest, at the Budapest Business School. Presentations of the conference can be [...]

The annual conference of our sister organisation south of Hungary’s border, the Association of Hungarian Economists in Vojvodina, was held on 18 March 2019 in the beautiful boardroom of the town hall of Subotica (Serbia). The organisation had been established in 2009 with active contribution by the Association of Hungarian Economists in Romania. This year’s [...]

The General Assembly of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) held its 125th anniversary celebration. During the event the highest honour of the HEA, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Economics was received by Miklós Pulai, former Secretary General of the Hungarian Banking Association. The preparations for this year’s Itinerant Conference of Economists were also discussed; the [...]

On Tuesday the General Assembly of the Budapest Stock Exchange elected Mihály Patai, Vice President of the HEA as the new Chairman of the BSE. Richárd Végh, President of the Responsible Corporate Governance Section of the HEA will retain his post as Chief Executive Officer of the BSE. On the occasion of his appointment Mihály [...]