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Demographic change: another requirement for competitiveness
‘We need to create the conditions of special socio-economic recognition for responsible families with many children’, said Árpád Kovács, Chairman of the Fiscal Council and Lifetime Honorary President of the Hungarian Economic Association at the joint conference and...
Technical advancement and labour – an event report
The Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association organized a professional event on technical advancement, Industry 4.0 and labour market which took place in the HEA Community Centre on 24 October 2019. During the event the introductory presentation was...
Call for a paper on a short history of the IEA
The IEA was set up in 1950 by UNESCO, in consultation with prominent economists, notably Joseph Schumpeter, in the 1940s. Its aim was to promote economic research and scientific policymaking. It has had a phenomenal history, with past presidents that include Paul...
Itinerant Conference of Economists 2020 to take place in Szeged
Szeged will host the 58th Itinerant Conference of Economists in 2020. The decision was made at the Board Meeting of the Hungarian Economic Association on Tuesday. After ten years, the city of Szeged situated on the banks of the River Tisza will host the largest annual...
Fintech and Financial Culture Section has been founded
The decision to set up the Fintech and Financial Culture Section of the Hungarian Economic Association was adopted by the Board Meeting of the HEA on 22 October 2019. The participants of the inaugural meeting held at the headquarters of the Hungarian Banking...
Life course interview with Árpád Kovács on Radio Kossuth
A life course interview with Árpád Kovács, Lifetime Honorary President of the HEA was conducted for Radio Kossuth. The interview was aired on Tuesday, 5 November 2019 as part of the series The Greats hosted by Edit Szentgáli. The interview can be accessed via this...
HEA’s Secretary General on Nobel Prize winners
This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded in recognition of outstanding research in development economics including the fight against poverty. ‘Remarkably a young female economist, Esther Duflo is also among the laureates this year’, Éva...
HEA-FC Conference: approx. 4.5 percent growth this year
The majority of the analysts working alongside the Fiscal Council (FC) predict around 4.5 percent growth this year with a slowing rate prognosed for next year, the joint Budapest conference of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and the FC revealed on Friday. As...
Outsourcing and IT Supervision – downloadable presentation
Outsourcing from the point of view of IT Supervision was be the title of a presentation delivered at the invitation of the Audit Section of the HEA and the Hungarian Institute of Internal Auditors by Gabriella Biró, Head of Department of IT Supervision, MNB on Monday,...
Itinerant conference – presentations, videos, photos, press reports
János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary, Andrea Bártfai-Mager, Minister without Portfolio for National Asset Management and Mihály Varga, Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister gave the final speeches of the 57th Itinerant Conference of Economists in...