The 61st Itinerant Meeting of Economists in Eger was a success: during two plenary sessions and 16 sections, almost 700 experts listened to presentations and round-table discussions on the latest economic issues. Including the pre-recorded sessions, some 150 speakers shared their thoughts with the audience. There was also strong interest online: by Monday morning, more [...]

Richárd Adorján, Deputy State Secretary for the Budget of the Ministry of Finance and former member of the Section's Board, was elected President of the Public Finance Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA). The previous President of the Section, Péter Benő Banai, State Secretary for Public Finance at the Ministry of Finance, will continue [...]

Gergely Madár, a student of the Németh László Gymnasium in Budapest, finished in 10th place in the international final of the International Economics Olympiad in Bratislava. The value of this excellent performance is demonstrated by the fact that the final was a test of economic knowledge for around 70 students from 14 countries, with a [...]

In less than two weeks' time, on Thursday 21 September, from 10am, the 61st Itinerant Congress of Economists will kick off in Eger with a roundtable discussion on economic policy between György Matolcsy, Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Mihály Varga, Minister of Finance, and Péter Ákos Bod, Professor of Economics. The largest annual conference [...]

A special plenary programme is in store for the participants of the 61st Itinerant Conference of Economists: at the opening plenary session of the conference, György Matolcsy, Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the Central Bank of Hungary, and Mihály Varga, Hungarian and Mihály Horváth, Slovakian Finance Minister, will discuss current economic policy issues in [...]

Péter Halmai, academician, President of the Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section of the Hungarian Economic Association, professor at the National University of Public Service and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, was elected President of the Section IX of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). Professor Halmai, who has also become a member [...]

Employment Frameworks and Processes - this is the title of a selection of articles by József Bagó, President of the Labour Section of the HEA, professional advisor to the Ministry of the Interior and Chief Government Counsellor, published in the Chronica Laboris section of the online Labour Review over the past five years. The articles [...]

As a result of the unanimous decision of the voting members, Miklós Kozma, Associate Professor and MBA Program Director of Corvinus University of Budapest, will be the President of the Industry and Entrepreneurship Section of the HEA for another three years. There was also no change in the Secretary: Balázs Babarczy, Senior Analyst at the [...]

László Trautmann, Associate Professor at the Neumann János University, will serve another three-year term as President of the Development Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA). Similarly, economist Ádám Vertetics will be re-elected as secretary of the section. Voting members also unanimously elected new board members. Based on their decision, Annamária Artner, Senior Research [...]

Richárd Végh, CEO of Budapest Stock Exchange Ltd., has been elected by the members to chair the Sustainability Section of the HEA for another three years. At the recently concluded renewal meeting of the Section, it was also revealed that the Secretary of the Section has not changed: Gábor Szarka, the Secretary of Budapest Stock [...]