Dom\u00e1n Nacsa, a student of the Erkel Ferenc High School in Gyula, won the 2026 Economics Olympiad on Thursday, March 26, at Corvinus University of Budapest. In the national final of the international competition for high school students, 26 students from 16 schools across 8 towns competed in economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Economics Olympiad was first organized in the Czech Republic in 2016. Since 2019, Hungary has also held the national competition and has been sending the best performers from the national final to the international final. The prestige of the competition is reflected in its growth: from an initial 4,000 participants in 2017, the number has now risen to nearly 80,000 students. Since its inception, a total of 450,000 students from 29 countries across four continents have tested their knowledge of economics in this competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s Economics Olympiad featured a strong field: nearly 70 secondary schools from around 40 towns registered students interested in economics. At the end of February, 310 high school students completed the online round of the competition with an average score of 66 percent. Ultimately, 27 students advanced to the national final \u2014 they had to achieve a perfect score of 100 percent, meaning correctly answering all 25 questions. This is the highest cutoff score in the history of the competition in Hungary. Of these, 26 students from 16 schools in 8 towns competed in the Thursday final in Budapest at Corvinus University. The national final consisted of two rounds: in the morning, students competed in a written test, and the top 10 performers advanced to an oral round in the afternoon before a jury of distinguished economists. The jury of the national final was chaired by Professor Gy\u00f6rgy Kocziszky; its other members were Professor Magdolna Csath, Vice President of the Innovation Section of the Hungarian Economic Association, and \u00c1kos Dombi, Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Faculty of Economics of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University. The finalists were welcomed by Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest; Gyula Pleschinger, President of the Hungarian Economic Association; and \u00c9va Heged\u00fcs, Secretary General of the Association and CEO of GR\u00c1NIT Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top three winners of the Economics Olympiad were: 1st place \u2013 Dom\u00e1n Nacsa (Erkel Ferenc High School, Gyula); 2nd place \u2013 M\u00e1rton Andr\u00e1s Ol\u00e1h (Illy\u00e9s Gyula High School, Technical School and Vocational School, Buda\u00f6rs); 3rd place \u2013 Szil\u00e1rd Attila Isp\u00e1n (ELTE Radn\u00f3ti Mikl\u00f3s Practice High School, Budapest). In addition to them, the fourth- and fifth-place finishers, Bendeg\u00faz P\u00e1l Ruskal (ELTE Radn\u00f3ti Mikl\u00f3s Practice High School, Budapest) and Vencel Koz\u00e1k (Ferenc II R\u00e1k\u00f3czi High School, Budapest), will represent Hungary in mid-August at the English-language international final of the competition in Olympia, Greece.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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