Accessible, But Not Acceptable – Europe’s shifting relationship with natural gas – by András Deák and John Szabó

Accessible, But Not Acceptable Europe’s shifting relationship with natural gas András Deák and John Szabo Institute of World Economics at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Per Concordiam – Journal of European Security and Defense Issues VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2, 2025 – Feb 19, 2025 From the very day that European leaders entertained […]
From Vodka to Craft Beer – The Craft Beer Revolution in the Baltic States – by Zoltán Bakucs and Imre Fertő

From Vodka to Craft Beer The Craft Beer Revolution in the Baltic States Zoltán Bakucs and Imre Fertő One of the most remarkable transformations in the European beverage market over recent decades has been the rise of craft beer. This shift has been particularly pronounced in the Baltic states, historically known for their preference […]
Digitalization against tax evasion: evidence on the role of company size – co-authored article by Csaba G. Tóth

Digitalization against tax evasion: evidence on the role of company size Bálint Ván, Gábor Lovics, Csaba G. Tóth & Katalin Szőke Journal of Business Economics – Original Paper – Open access – Published: 27 February 2025 Abstract To reduce tax evasion, in 2013 and 2014 the Hungarian government introduced mandatory online cash registers (OCR) […]
Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment – new co-authored article by Anna Adamecz

Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment Anna Adamecz, John Jerrim, Jean-Baptiste Pingault & Nikki Shure Journal of Population Economics – Original Paper – Published: 22 February 2025 Abstract It is well established that boys perceive themselves to be better in mathematics than girls, even when their ability is the same. We examine […]
How Socioeconomic Status Differences Observable in Students’ Delay of Gratification Evolved Over the Period of COVID-19-induced Online Education

How Socioeconomic Status Differences Observable in Students’ Delay of Gratification Evolved Over the Period of COVID-19-induced Online Education Tamás Keller – Hubert János Kiss Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences – Published Online: 2025-02-21 Abstract We show the evolution of the delay of gratification (DG) in 950 students aged 10–14 during […]
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 Schlotter in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Odd Paths, Cycles, and T-Joins: Connections and Algorithms 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 […]
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 […]