Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary – by Judit Ricz & Andrea Éltető

Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary Judit Ricz – Andrea Éltető Problems of Post-Communism – Published online: 27 Feb 2025 Abstract Why does Hungary, a small peripheral economy within the EU, aspire to become the second-largest European battery producer by 2030? Our principal […]
Odd Paths, Cycles, and T-Joins: Connections and Algorithms – new study by Ildikó Sclotter in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Odd Paths, Cycles, and T-Joins Ildikó Schlotter – András Sebő SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics Volume 39 • Issue 1 March 2025 • Pages: 484 – 504 Published online: 20 February 2025 Abstract Minimizing the weight of an edge set satisfying parity constraints is a challenging branch of combinatorial optimization as witnessed by the binary […]
Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach – by Zoltán Elekes

Skills tend to be mysterious entities in economic geography and regional science – notoriously difficult to define, identify and measure. Yet, almost everyone agrees on their decisive value for regional economic development and welfare. In our new, freely available study, we propose that large-scale data on job advertisements represent a substantial and largely untapped […]
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)

Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022) Kacziba Péter (PTE) – Gibárti Sára (KRTK RKI) – Lechner Zoltán (PTE) Why digital diplomacy? Over the past decade, digital diplomacy has become a global phenomenon. Traditional intermediaries in public diplomacy have been supplemented – or even replaced – by digital platforms. […]
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: a case from Budapest – new research article by Agnes Gagyi & András Vigvári

Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: a case from Budapest Agnes Gagyi & András Vigvári Environmental Sociology – Research Article – Published online: 12 Feb 2025 Abstract This paper contributes to new debates on urban agriculture as a sustainability tool, addressing allotment gardens and post-socialist allotment gardens […]
New research article in ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation by Gergely Csáji and co-authors

Computational Complexity of k -stable Matchings Haris Aziz, Gergely Csáji, Ágnes Cseh ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation,Volume 13 , Issue 1 Paper 5. 25 p. (2025) – March 2025 We study deviations by a group of agents in the three main types of matching markets: the house allocation, the marriage, and the roommates models. For a […]
How to measure consumer’s inconsistency in sensory testing? – by László Sipos

How to measure consumer’s inconsistency in sensory testing? László Sipos Consumer sensory testing plays a pivotal role in guiding food product development. While expert assessors undergo rigorous training to ensure consistency in their evaluations, the variability among consumers remains largely unexplored. This study addresses this gap by introducing a statistical framework to assess […]
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X – new co-authored research article by Sára Gibárti

Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy:insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022) Péter Kacziba – Sára Gibárti – Zoltán Lechner Southeast European and Black Sea Studies – Published online: 6 Feb 2025 Abstract In 2019, the Greek government pledged to reform the strategic and operational orientation of its foreign policy. The reform placed particular emphasis […]
Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach – study by Zoltán Elekes and co-authors

Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach Martin Henning, Rikard Eriksson,Petrus Garefelt, Hanna Martin & Zoltán Elekes Regional Studies, Regional Science – Pages 95-122 – research article – published online: 17 Feb 2025 Abstract The local presence and composition of skills is commonly thought to have enormous implications for economic […]
A book chapter co-authored by Tünde Virág with Vera Messing has been published in a book titled: Urban Marginality, Racialization, Interdependence

A book chapter co-authored by Tünde Virág with Vera Messing, in ‘Urban Marginality, Racialization, Interdependence’, edited by F. Alexandrescu, R. Powell and A. Vilenica, has been published. This chapter provides an analysis of governing an urban area historically characterized by high levels of ethnic, racial, religious, and social diversity and related urban marginality, yet stigmatized […]