Clustering Via Hedonic Games – by Gergely Csáji
Clustering Via Hedonic Games by Gergely Csáji In Artificial Intelligence, clustering is a fundamental task, where the goal is to discover hidden structures within data by grouping similar elements together. Traditional methods, such as k-means or DBSCAN, typically optimize these groups based on geometric distances or density. Cooperative game theory on the other hand, […]
Do agri-environment schemes deliver environmental change? Evidence from wine farms in Hungary – by Imre Fertő, Gergely Csurilla and Szilárd Podruzsik
Do agri-environment schemes deliver environmental change? Evidence from wine farms in Hungary Imre Fertő, Gergely Csurilla, Szilárd Podruzsik Agri-environment schemes have become a cornerstone of European agricultural policy. They are designed to reconcile two objectives that are often in tension: maintaining farm incomes while reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint. Over successive reforms of the […]
New legislations and challenges in Europe: what to do with textile waste?
New legislations and challenges in Europe: what to do with textile waste? Emese Dobos From January 2025, it is mandatory to collect textile waste separately in the European Union. The big question now is what will happen to it. Companies involved in the collection and processing of textile waste in Europe are declaring insolvency one […]
CEE energy policy responses to Russia’s 2022 invasion – new research paper by John Szabo, Csaba Weiner and András Deák in Post-Communist Economies
Split between accelerationists, pivoters, and the unwavering: CEE energy policy responses to Russia’s 2022 invasion John Szabo – Csaba Weiner – András Deák Post-Communist Economies – Published online: 2 Jan 2026 Abstract The European Commission proposed to accelerate the EU’s energy transition and phase out Russian gas in response to Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, prompting […]
Stress, values, and alcohol use: What the pandemic reveals about coping behaviours in Hungary – by Zoltán Bakucs, Zsófia Benedek, Imre Fertő, József Fogarasi
Stress, values, and alcohol use: What the pandemic reveals about coping behaviours in Hungary Zoltán Bakucs, Zsófia Benedek, Imre Fertő, József Fogarasi How and why did alcohol consumption change in Hungary during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what does this tell us about how societies respond to chronic stress? Drawing on a nationally representative […]
Featured Lendület Researcher: Balázs Lengyel
Featured Lendület Researcher: Balázs Lengyel mta.hu – 5th January 2026 Nowadays, telecommunications providers and IT companies collect vast amounts of electronic data about us. These databases may contain sensitive personal data, which means they also carry risks, but at the same time they can be an incredibly valuable source of information for the social […]
Approximating maximum-size properly colored forests – ne co-authored article by Gergely Csáji in European Journal of Combinatorics
Approximating maximum-size properly colored forests Yuhang Bai, Kristóf Bérczi, Gergely Csáji, Tamás Schwarcz European Journal of Combinatorics – Volume 132, Part B, February 2026 Abstract In the Properly Colored Spanning Tree problem, we are given an edge-colored undirected graph and the goal is to find a properly colored spanning tree, i.e., a spanning tree […]
Remembering past present biases – new research article by Antal Ertl, Hubert János Kiss and Barna Bakó in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Remembering past present biases Barna Bakó – Antal Ertl – Hubert János Kiss Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Volume 120, January 2026 Highlights The study explores how present bias influences memory accuracy. Present bias affects memory accuracy, especially in immediate reward scenarios. Motivated memory may cause individuals to recall past decisions […]
Understanding the temporal dynamics of agri-environmental climate scheme adoption – new research study by Imre Fertő and Štefan Bojnec
Understanding the temporal dynamics of agri-environmental climate scheme adoption Imre Fertő & Štefan Bojnec Journal of Environmental Planning and Management – Published online: 9 Dec 2025 Abstract The research explores the intricate dynamics of farmers’ decision-making in the context of the European Union’s agri-environmental-climate schemes (AECS), with a focus on the temporal factors […]
The latest issue of Budapest Management Review has been published – Editorial by Ágnes Szunomár, a new study by Magdolna Sass and Gábor Túry
Vezetéstudomány Budapest Management Review, Vol. 56 No. 12 (2025) – Published: 2025-12-15 Editorial Business collaboration, digitalization, and innovation redefining success in uncertain times – A CEE perspective foreword to the special issue Miklós Stocker, Ágnes Szunomár PDF Three years later – The integration and continuity of digital solutions […]
