With a successful economists' itinerant meeting, almost a hundred professional events and a move to a new office, the 130-year-old Hungarian Economic Association has had a busy year. With three plenary sessions, a total of 22 sections, 130 speakers and an exciting and memorable economists' itinerant meeting full of substantive debates, we have had a [...]
Occupational health conditions of employment - this is the title of an online conference organised by the Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association on Thursday, 6 February 2025, from 14:00 on Webex and on the MKT YouTube channel. The speakers will be Edit Bereczki Erősné, occupational physician (The issue of regulating fitness for work); [...]
Labour market forecast for 2025 - this is the title of a professional event organised by the Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association on Thursday, 9 January, from 14:00 on Webex and on the MKT's YouTube channel. The introductory presentation will be given by Fruzsina Nábelek, Director of the Institute of Economic and Business [...]
The Hungarian Economic Association has compiled the main messages of the 62nd Itinerant Congress of the Hungarian Economists' and sent them to the key actors and leaders of Hungarian economic policy, including the Prime Minister, the Governor of the Central Bank and several government ministers responsible for economic issues. The document summarises the main lessons [...]
At the end of last week the secretariat and community space of the Hungarian Economic Association moved to a new office! After almost a decade, we said goodbye to the Eiffel Palace Office Building, where our community space has been the venue for many memorable departmental meetings and round-table discussions over the years. The new [...]
The President of the Development Policy Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), former Minister of European Affairs Etele Baráth recently resigned from his position as the Section's President, and the Section held a partial renewal meeting online recently. The voting members unanimously supported the election of Zsombor Essősy, CEO of MAPI Hungarian Development Agency [...]
The Higher and Further Education Section of the Hungarian Economic Association was founded, with several university professors among its founders. The founders elected Péter Szatmári, Vice-Rector for General Affairs and Development at Milton Friedman University, as President of the Section, and Henrietta Nagy, Professor at Milton Friedman University, as Section Secretary. The Section was also [...]
Moving up from drift - Knowledge-based competitiveness. This is the title of a book of studies by György Boda, Ferenc Kiss, Gábor Láncz, Zsolt Matyusz and Regina Thék, recently published by Akadémiai Publishers. On this occasion, the Hungarian Economic Association's Labour Section and the Institute of Management Sciences of the BCE are organizing a book [...]
Sustainable GDP - The challenges. This is the title of a conferwnce organised by the Economic Statistics Section of the Hungarian Statistical Society, the Macro Club of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs and the Competitiveness Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) on Thursday, 5 December 2024, from 13:00 at the [...]
Invisible frontiers: how can we better understand how monetary policy works by looking at international financial lending? Judit Temesváry, Head of the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) and Member of the Board of the Monetary Policy Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), will give a presentation on this topic on [...]
