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IEHAS PUBLICATIONS

The Hungarian Labour Market
2013 Edited by
Károly Fazekas, Péter Benczúr and Álmos Telegdy
IE CERS MTA, National Employment Non-Profit Public Company Ltd. 2013.

From pensions to public works
Hungarian employment policy from 1990 to 2010Edited by Károly Fazekas and Ágota Scharle
Budapest, 2012.
Published with support from the National Employment Fund of Hungary.

Mihályi, Péter: A magyar privatizáció enciklopédiája 1-2. kötet (Encyclopaedia of the Hungarian Privatization Vol. 1-2.)
Budapest: Pannon Egyetemi Könyvkiadó - MTA Közgazdaságtudományi
Intézet, 2010. With a summary in English.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

8-10 April 2013. University of Warwick, UK
Bakucs Z. - Fertő I.: The role of trust in contractual relationships Fertő I.: Intra-industry trade for agri-food products in the enlarged European Union Fertő I.- Jámbor A.: Vertical intra-industry agri-food trade between Hungary and the European Union Benedek Zs. - Fertő I.: Development and application of a new forestation index: global forestation patterns and drivers
23-24. February 2013. Baton Rouge, USA
Dávid Csercsik-László Á. Kóczy:
Efficiency and stability in electrical power transmission networks - A partition function form approach

Former presentations

BOOKS

Adaptability And Change:The Regional Dimensions In Central And Eastern Europe edited by Grzegorz Gorzelak, Chor Ching Goh, Károly Fazekas
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar - 2012

Karsai Judit:Private Equity in Cee: The Development of Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry in Central and Eastern EuropeVDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, 2010.

Activity, Incomes and Social Welfare. A Comparison across Four New EU Member StatesEdited by Manuela Sofia Stanculescu and Tine Stanovnik
European Centre Vienna, Ashgate, 2009The Hungarian chapter is written by György Molnár and Viktoria Galla.

Green Book for the Renewal of Public Education in Hungary Editors: Károly Fazekas, János Köllő, Júlia Varga
Ecostat, 2009.
Order it from IE HAS Library for free

RESEARCH FOCUS

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Empirical Industrial Organisation Game Theory Globalisation, EU-integration and Convergence Macroeconomics and Growth Public Economics and Public Policies Economics of Education Labour Research Individuals Research Programs
Research Strategy 2008-2012

NEWS

László Halpern is appointed to lead the Institute of Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies for 3 years from 2013 January.

Our heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to Professor Janos Kornai on the occasion of his 85th birthday. A personal recollection and laudation (in Hungarian) from János Gács.

Annual Reports

Annual Report - 2012

The Report of the External Advisory Board on the 2009 performance and future plans of the Institute for Economics of HAS

DATA SOURCES

Social science research databasespublished on-line by the Institute

PRESS REVIEW

Bruegel ¦ 25 Jan 2013
Darvas Zsolt: Yen at war

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 20 Sep 2012
Gábor Békés - Balázs Muraközy:
Temporary trade: Exporting only once in a while

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 18 May 2012
Gábor Békés - László Halpern - Miklós Koren - Balázs Muraközy: Still standing: Global crisis and European firms

VOXEU (CEPR) ¦ 1 July 2011
The impact of the crisis on European firms - interview with László Halpern about the effects of the crisis on European business.

NEW PUBLICATIONS (Compiler: Éva Bálint)

Book Chapter

Halpern, László: Trade and firms in transition. In: Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition/eds. Paul Hare and Gerard Turley. Routledge, 2013. pp. 275-283.

Journal Articles

Horn, Dániel: Diverging performance: The detrimental effects of early educational selection on equality of opportunity in Hungary. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Vol. 32. June 2013. 25-43.

Darvas, Zsolt: Monetary transmission in three central European economies: Evidence from time-varying coefficient vector autoregressions. Empirica Vol. 40. No. 2. 2013. 363-390.

Perekhozhuk, O. - Hockmann, H. - Fertő, I. - Bakucs, L.Z.: Identification of market power in the Hungarian dairy industry: A plant-level analysis. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Vol. 11. No. 1. 2013. 1-13.

Kóczy, L.Á. - Nichifor, A.: The intellectual influence of economic journals: Quality and Quantity. Economic Theory Vol. 52. No. 3. 2013. 863-884.

AGREEMENTS OF ACADEMIC COOPERATION AND EXCHANGE

Agreements of Academic Cooperation

» with CEU ECON to support joint activity in CEFIG
signed in September 2010
Agreement of Coopeartion CEU ECON website CEFIG website

» with the Institute of Economic Research of the Kyoto University signed in March 2010
Agreement of Cooperation KIER website

» with the School of Economics and Business Administration of the Bejing Normal University signed in Dec 2009
Agreement of Cooperation SEBA website
» with the Korean SNU KIEP EU Center signed in May 2009
Agreement of Cooperation SNU KIEP EU Center's website
» with the Institute of Economics - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences signed in June 2007
Agreement of Cooperation IE CASS website
in which parties mutually agreed to cooperate in joint researches, to exchange scientific knowledge and information, to host meetings and seminars, and encourage staff visitings.