Unequal Fields: How Agricultural Subsidies Are Reinforcing Income Gaps in Farming – by Imre Fertő
Unequal Fields: How Agricultural Subsidies Are Reinforcing Income Gaps in Farming Imre Fertő The gap in agricultural incomes is no longer a marginal side-effect of farming. It has become a structural feature of European – and especially Central-Eastern European – agriculture. The recent paper by Imre Fertő shows that farm income inequalities are not just […]
Dependency meets illiberalism: expansion of the EV battery sector in Central Europe – new study by Judit Ricz and Andrea Éltető in Post-Communist Economies
Dependency meets illiberalism: expansion of the EV battery sector in Central Europe Ricz Judit & Éltető AndreaPost-Communist Economies – Published online: 18 Nov 2025 Abstract In the emerging new geopolitical landscape, Central European (CE) economies experiment with alternative approaches, leading to the rise of illiberal politics and changed economic governance. With Hungary being the […]
The Large Core of College Admission Markets: Theory and Evidence – new co-authored study by Péter Biró in The Review of Economics and Statistics
The Large Core of College Admission Markets: Theory and Evidence Péter Biró, Avinatan Hassidim, Assaf Romm, Ran I. Shorrer, Sándor Sóvágó The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–42. – October 27 2025 Abstract We study college admissions markets where students can attend the same college under different financial terms. The deferred acceptance algorithm identifies a […]
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth – new co-authored article by Anikó Bíró and Márta Bisztray in Journal of Labor Economics
Spatial dimensions of the foreign resident population in small towns in Hungary – new research article by Réka Horeczki and Gábor Lados in City.hu
Spatial dimensions of the foreign resident populationin small towns in Hungary Réka Horeczki – Gábor Lados CITY.HU Várostudományi Szemle. 5(2), 137–154. Abstract In line with the primary objectives of the journal, which seeks to present significant economic and socio-spatial issues in various types of urban areas, this study addresses a specific category of settlements: […]
The Governance and Development Policy Dimensions of the Success of Rural Proofing – by István Finta
Territorial sensitivity and the different treatment of rural areas’ needs over the past two to three decades have given rise to an intervention and governance method in many countries known as rural proofing. The practical significance of this approach is also supported by the fact that the European Commission has incorporated it into the […]
Children Raised in Foster Families Have Better Early Adult Outcomes than Those Raised in Institutions – by Anna Bárdits
Children Raised in Foster Families Have Better Early Adult Outcomes than Those Raised in Institutions by Anna Bárdits and Gábor Kertesi Children who are severely neglected, at risk, or abused can be removed from their families by the state, which then takes on the responsibility of raising them. In the European […]
Why Prevention Against Invasive Species is Cheaper than Procrastination – blog post of The Agricultural Economics Society by Imre Fertő
Why Prevention Against Invasive Species is Cheaper than Procrastination Imre Fertő Corvinus University Budapest and ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies 02/11/2025 – AES blog The issue of biological invasions is traditionally discussed as a conservation problem. This perspective is partly true but […]
The European Union’s investment screening framework and China – by Tamás Peragovics and Ágnes Szunomár
The European Union’s investment screening framework and China – a complicated picture by Tamás Peragovics and Ágnes Szunomár In this paper, our objective was to investigate the relationship between the European Union’s Investment Screening Framework (ISF) and Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), asking how and to what extent China has shaped the development and […]
Basic research cooperation on European regional development and competitiveness – by Csaba Lakócai
Basic research cooperation on European regional development and competitiveness by Csaba Lakócai In a research cooperation with the Strasbourg-based European YouthThink Tank (EYTT), Csaba Lakócai, research fellow at the Institute of World Economics, has been conducting basic research since 2023 on the spatial patterns of contemporary socio-economic development in the EU at the NUTS2 […]
