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Péter Halmai on This Year’s Nobel Laureates
The models developed by the American scholars awarded this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences provide a basis for formulating state-of-the-art economic policy, drawing on microeconomic insights as well, economist and academician Péter Halmai, President...
Proposals for Improving the Public Financing of Sport
The Board of the HEA Sports Economics Section has developed a package of professional proposals aimed at improving the governance and public financing of sport in Hungary. The document was also discussed by the Sports Economics Section of the 64th Itinerant Congress...
Péter Asztalos: new president at KINCS
HEA-member Péter Asztalos, a member of the Board of the HEA’s Demography Section, has been appointed president of the Kopp Mária Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS) as of September 28. Going forward, the institution, which operates as a background...
Itinerant Congress: all sessions available!
The 64th Itinerant Congress of Economists of the Hungarian Economic Association was successfully held in Eger on 10–11 September. During the two-day conference, around 80 speakers shared their thoughts with the 700 participants attending in person and, by now, an...
Lifetime Achievement Award to Zoltán Farkas
The Itinerant Congresses of Economists are celebrations of Hungary’s economics profession – they offer the best opportunity for the association to express its appreciation, through awards, to all those who have made significant contributions to the association or to...
700 participants, 18.000 viewers: a successfull congress in Eger
The 64th Itinerant Congress of Economists concluded successfully in Eger on Friday: around 700 participants attended the conference in person and heard the views of more than 80 speakers on the challenges facing the Hungarian economy. The conference’s live online...
EU Section’s Visit to the European Capital of Culture
In the final days of August, the Board of the EU Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), accompanied by a small delegation, paid a visit to Trenčín, which this year holds the title of European Capital of Culture jointly with Oulu, Finland. The delegation...
Live Streams from the 64th Itinerant Congress
As in previous years, this year we are also planning live online broadcasts of the Thursday opening plenary session of the 64th Itinerant Congress of Economists, as well as four of the conference’s featured sessions, both on the conference website and on the Hungarian...
HEA Cogress: one week left to register
Registration for the 64th Itinerant Congress of Economists has entered the home stretch – interested participants have just one week left to register for the Hungarian economic profession’s largest annual conference! The detailed on-site programme is now complete, and...
A Final Farewell to Béla Kádár
On Friday, 7 August, we bid a final farewell to Béla Kádár, Academician, Széchenyi Prize-winning economist and Honorary Lifetime President of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA). Béla Kádár was commemorated by Péter Halmai, Academician, President of the HAS...