New journal article, co-authored by our researchers, Lajos Baráth and Imre Fertő is published in MDPI Agriculture

  Technological Heterogeneity in Pig Farming: A Metafrontier Approach—Perspectives from Hungary and Poland by Lajos Baráth, Imre Fertő and Jakub Staniszewski Agriculture 2021, 11(10), 961 Published: 2 October 2021   Abstract Despite remaining the most important type of animal production, pig production in Poland and Hungary declined after their accession to the European Union (EU) […]

A new co-authored study by Zsolt Jenő Farkas published in Habitat International

Measuring socio-economic disparities in green space availability in post-socialist cities György Csomós – Zsolt Jenő Farkas – Ronald A. Kolcsár –  Péter Szilassi – Zoltán Kovács Habitat International   Volume 117, November 2021 Abstract Since the collapse of communism, countries in Central and Eastern Europe have experienced significant socio-economic changes that have affected the urban landscape […]

Research Article by Gergely Csurilla and co-authors is published in Acta Oeconomica

Where is victory most certain? The level of luck-based noise factor in Summer Olympic Games Authors: Gergely Csurilla, András Gyimesi, Erika Kendelényi-Gulyás and Tamás Sterbenz Acta Oeconomica  Volume 71: Issue 3 Pages: 369–386 Online Publication Date: 21 Sep 2021 Article Category: Research Article Abstract We describe a statistical approach for the measurement of the newly […]

A new research article by Ilona Kovács Pálné is published in Frontiers in Political Science

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Polit. Sci., 13 September 2021 Politics Without Meso-Level? No Politics at the Meso? Ilona Pálné Kovács  The paper examines the role of meso-level governance in the Hungarian political system focusing on the county self-governments. The objective of the author is to introduce the consequences of the lack of meso-level politics for […]

A new co-authored study by Tamás Keller is published in PLOS ONE

Not just words! Effects of a light-touch randomized encouragement intervention on students’ exam grades, self-efficacy, motivation, and test anxiety Tamás Keller, Péter Szakál Abstract Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we investigate how simple school practices can forge students’ engagement with the academic aspect of school life. We carried out a large-scale preregistered randomized […]