Strategic coupling in the European (global?) periphery: Debrecen as an emerging location of the automotive industry – by Erika Nagy and co-authors

Strategic coupling in the European (global?) periphery: Debrecen as an emerging location of the automotive industry Erika Nagy, Gábor Kozma, Ernő Molnár Progress in Economic Geography, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2026, Available online 25 April 2026 Abstract This paper is focused on strategic coupling processes of automotive production networks and in the European (semi-)periphery through the […]
Publicly funded football stadia: overinvestment and underutilisation in Hungarian football – Gergely Csurilla, Imre Fertő and Giambattista Rossi

Learning to win by fearing to lose: The surprising power of loss aversion in education – study by Antal Ertl, Éva Holb and Barna Bakó

Learning to win by fearing to lose: The surprising power of loss aversion in education Ertl Antal – Holb Éva – Bakó Barna Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization – Volume 246, June 2026, Available online 26 April 2026 Abstract This study investigates the impact of loss-aversion framing on student performance […]
Zoltán Elekes and his co-authors won the 2026 Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Paper Award

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Paper Award!Louis Yi Liu, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS), presented the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Martin Henning, Rikard Eriksson, Petrus Garefelt, Hanna Martin and Zoltán Elekes for their paper: ‘Job relatedness, local skill coherence […]
Employment Effects of Disability Benefit Reassessment in Hungary – Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Dániel Prinz, Ágota Scharle

Agricultural Lighting Strategies in Portugal — Insights from DLI Mapping by László Sipos

Agricultural Lighting Strategies in Portugal — Insights from DLI Mapping by László Sipos The need for DLI mapping The DLI represents the total amount of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) received by plants over the course of a total day [mol·m−2·d−1]. PAR refers to the radiation within the wavelength range of 400 to 700 […]
The EU-Mercosur agreement: Small gains, big political risks – blog post of The Agricultural Economics Society by Imre Fertő

The EU-Mercosur agreement: Small gains, big political risks Imre Fertő Agricultural Economics Society blog – 14/04/2026 The EU–Mercosur agreement is often debated as if it were mainly about tariffs. It is not. The more important issue is whether the EU can open agricultural markets while preserving the credibility of its own environmental, animal welfare, and […]
Exploring the circular economy’s promise and challenges in Ghana from company and policy expert interviews – by Gergely Buda

Exploring the circular economy’s promise and challengesin Ghana from company and policy expert interviews Gergely Buda Discover Sustainability – Published: 3 April 2026 Abstract This paper investigates how and why circular economy (CE) practices, particularly inter-firm waste exchange and industrial symbiosis (IS), are emerging yet remain constrained in Ghana, and identifies policy-relevant […]
Producers and consumers in local food systems are more alike than we think – shared values matter more than roles

by Zsófia Benedek, Gusztáv Nemes, Imre Fertő, and Zoltán Bakucs
When the dollar hits the dinner table: Why food inflation in non-euro EU countries is mostly imported

When the dollar hits the dinner table:Why food inflation in non-euro EU countries is mostly imported Tibor Bareith and Imre Fertő Food inflation is where macroeconomics becomes painfully personal. Households may not follow bond yields or central bank speeches. But they notice immediately when bread, milk, cooking oil, and vegetables become more expensive. Food prices […]