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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...
V4 Conference in Brno – with numerous Hungarian speakers
The Economic Associations of Slovakia and the Czech Republic organized a joint professional conference in association with the Mendel University of Brno and the Hungarian Economic Association, taking place at the Mendel University in Brno on 11-13 September 2019. The...
Hungary’s contestants doing well at V4 Student Olympics in Economy
The Hungarian students did well in the final of the V4 Economics Olympiad taking place in Prague on 10 September 2019. The international contest hosted by the Czech National Bank was financed by the Visegrad Fund and involved five students each from the Czech...
IEA World Congress 2020 in Bali
The 19th World Congress organized by the International Economic Association (IEA) will be held in Bali, Indonesia 3 - 7 July 2020. The conference will be chaired by Dani Rodrik, Professor of Harvard University who will take office as IEA President around that time....