Last year brought many challenges for the Hungarian Economic Association due to the coronavirus pandemic in respect of both domestic events and international partnerships. We managed to conquer these challenges thanks to the activity of our sections. 2020 was reviewed via podcasts at Növekedés.hu by the President, the Secretary General as well as the heads [...]

National economy and public finances in the time of coronavirus pandemic. With this title, the Hungarian Economic Association and the Fiscal Council held their traditional joint conference on 15 December 2020. The lectures of the event can be listened to on HEA's podcast channel, and the studies and presentations can be downloaded from our website. [...]

The Hungarian Economic Association and its partners - the Czech INEV, the National Bank of Hungary, the MNB Department of the Corvinus University of Budapest, the Money Museum, the Money Compass Foundation and the Budapest Institute of Banking Zrt. - will be organising the Economics Olympiad for Students in the 2020-2021 academic year as well. [...]

‘It is essential for Hungary to increase the efficiency of investment in R&D, education and healthcare to ensure a higher level of development for the country’ - it was the message delivered at an online conference organised by the Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association on Thursday in Budapest. Speakers of the ‘Middle Income [...]

On Wednesday Richárd Végh, CEO of Budapesti Értéktőzsde Zrt. was re-elected as head of the Corporate Governance Section of the HEA for additional three years. During the event held in the online space the members also decided to change their name to Sustainability Section. At the beginning of the event ‘Banks and Sustainability: New Challenges [...]

The international final of the V4 Economic Olympics ended with a Czech success and a beautiful Hungarian performance on Friday. Due to the results of the written round on Wednesday, Emese Mezei, a student of the BGSZC Gergely Berzeviczy Technical School of Economics, got to the Friday oral round. Finally, Emese reached 7th among the [...]

The international final of the V4 Economic Olympics began on Wednesday morning with the opening remarks of Nobel laureate economist Tom Sargent. Due to the pandemic situation, the final was organized online. In the international final, from Wednesday to Friday, 5 high school students from each of the four Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, [...]

The Demography Section of the Hungarian Economic Association held its elections electronically, due to the pandemic situation. The members elected József Benda, a socialization researcher, as the president of the Section, and Attila Szoboszlai, an economist and organizational developer, as co-President. At the beginning of the online section meeting, Emese Kreiszné Hudák, an expert from [...]

Gábor Iván, Director of the the General Policy Directorate of the Council of the European Union, was elected President of the European Union Section of the Hungarian Economic Association on Monday. Zsolt Becsey, Deputy Head of the Institute of Social Sciences and International Studies of the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, [...]

Hungary is realising its interests in Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) talks, an agriculture ministry official told a professional forum of the Hungarian Economic Association on Tuesday. Anikó Juhász, deputy state secretary for agriculture, told the online event that Hungary is set to receive 12 billion euros in subsidies. Also, Hungary is slated to get 262.9 [...]