Gender-based differences in eco-efficient farming – new research study by Imre Fertő, Lajos Baráth & Štefan Bojnec

Gender-based differences in eco-efficient farming Imre Fertő, Lajos Baráth & Štefan Bojnec Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 15895 (2025) – Published: 07 May 2025 Abstract This study investigates gender-based differences in eco-efficiency among Hungarian field crop farms, using data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network between 2015 and 2020. Applying Data Envelopment Analysis and Blinder-Oaxaca […]
The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans – by Judit Berkes, Ádám Páthy, Ildikó Egyed and Szilárd Rácz

THE FIRM GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE WESTERN BALKANS Authors: Judit BERKES, Ádám PÁTHY, Ildikó EGYED, Szilárd RÁCZ Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis Volume 17, Issue 1, 2025, pp. 5-35 Over the past three decades, significant socio-economic transformations have reshaped the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This study examines […]
Chinese EV battery manufacturing in Hungary: helping or hindering the green transition – by Ágnes Szunomár

Chinese EV battery manufacturing in Hungary: helping or hindering the green transition Ágnes Szunomár As the automotive industry slowly transitions towards EVs, accompanied by a technological transformation, supply chains are also affected. Countries like Hungary, where low-skill assembly of imported components constitutes the majority of local value added, are bound to face the […]
The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams – new research article by Johannes Wachs and co-authors in Nature Communications

The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams Lorenzo Betti – Luca Gallo – Johannes Wachs – Federico Battiston Nature Communications – Volume 16, Article number: 3956 – Published: 27 April 2025 Abstract From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and innovation. Most studies consider teams as static […]
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization – by András Vigvári

Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization by András Vigvari This paper contributes to new debates on urban agriculture as a sustainability tool, addressing allotment gardens and post-socialist allotment gardens in particular, as a form of urban gardening flagged as especially promising by recent research. Combining perspectives from […]
Urban highways are barriers to social ties by Sándor Juhász

Urban highways are barriers to social ties by Sándor Juhász Urban highways are often portrayed as connectors—arteries of modern mobility that bring people and places closer. But from the ground level, they often do the opposite: they divide. Especially in car-centric US cities, highways represent not convenience, but disruption—of neighborhoods, of mobility, and of […]
Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? Podcast by Andrea Szalavetz

Illustration: rawpixel.com / freepik.com Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? by Andrea Szalavetz Summary of the research paper:Szalavetz, A. (2025). Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? Post-Communist Economies, 37(4), 299–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2025.2470007 Analysing qualitative data obtained from experts and technology startups in Central and Eastern […]
Socioeconomic inequalities and diabetes complications: an analysis of administrative data from Hungary – by Péter Elek, Balázs Mayer & Orsolya Varga

Socioeconomic inequalities and diabetes complications: an analysis of administrative data from Hungary Péter Elek -Balázs Mayer – Orsolya Varga European Journal of Public Health, Published: 8 April 2025 Abstract Diabetes complications are associated with increased healthcare costs and worsened patient outcomes. In this paper, we analyse how individual-level demographic and territorial-level socioeconomic and healthcare variables […]
Maximum-utility Popular Matchings with Bounded Instability – new research article by Ildikó Schlotter and Ágnes Cseh

Maximum-utility Popular Matchings with Bounded Instability Ildikó Schlotter – Ágnes Cseh ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, Volume 17, Issue 1Article No.: 6, Pages 1 – 35 – Published: 08 March 2025 Abstract In a graph where vertices have preferences over their neighbors, a matching is called popular if it does not lose a head-to-head […]
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Insights on Gender Differences – by Anna Adamecz

Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Insights on Gender Differences – by Anna Adamecz The Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) is a well-documented psychological phenomenon stating that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with relatively higher levels of the ability. There has been much debate as to […]