The Hungarian Economic Society will organise the 60th Itinerant Conference of Economists on 22-23 September 2022 at the József Attila Study and Information Centre of the University of Szeged. This year's two-day conference will start with the opening plenary session on Thursday, 22 September at 10 am. On Thursday afternoon from 14:00 and Friday morning [...]

The Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) held its annual meeting on Friday, 27th May in Budapest, with almost 90 percent of the delegates of the county organisations and the sections attending. The delegates adopted the Association's annual report for 2021, its financial plan for 2022, and amended the HEA's statutes. At the delegates' meeting, held on [...]

In recognition of her exemplary professional activity over several decades, Enikő Zsakó received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the IIA Hungary. Enikő Zsakó is the Deputy Executive Director of the Internal Audit Department of OTP Bank, President of the Audit Section of the Hungarian Economic Association, and member of our Supervisory Board of HEA. We [...]

Mária Csutora, Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Director of the Research Centre for Sustainability Indicators, was elected President of the Environmental Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association. During the election, which was held online, the members elected Professor Sándor Kerekes, the former President of the Section, as Honorary President. Gábor Harangozó, Associate [...]

Péter Halmai was elected as a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Péter Mihályi as a corresponding member by the Assembly of Academicians on Tuesday 3 May. Péter Halmai, Professor of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the National University of Public Service, founder and first President of the Veszprém [...]

Labour science messages from the quarantine - this is the title of a collection of the written reports of the professional lectures and conferences on labour and employment policy of the past two (pandemic) years, published by the Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (MKT) and the Labour Review. The almost 120-page electronic publication [...]