From fork to farm, locally: social acceptance pathways for human excreta-derived fertilisers across three European regions – new paper by Viktor Varjú
From fork to farm, locally: social acceptance pathways for human excreta-derived fertilisers across three European regions Viktor Varjú Socio-Ecological Practice Research- Published: 9 December 2025 Abstract This research was carried out to better understand the attitudes of everyday people and stakeholders towards the new innovation of bio-based fertilisers made from human excreta. This research […]
Why Farmers Leave Green Schemes Early — and What This Means for EU Climate Policy – by Imre Fertő
Why Farmers Leave Green Schemes Early — and What This Means for EU Climate Policy Imre Fertő Agri-environmental climate schemes (AECS) are one of the European Union’s main tools for encouraging farmers to adopt practices that protect soil, water, biodiversity, and the climate. These schemes are designed with multi-year commitments in mind; […]
The Kitchen-Work of Collaborative Research: Recipes for Transformative Methodologies – new co-authored paper by Luca Sára Bródy in Antipode journal
The Kitchen-Work of Collaborative Research: Recipes for Transformative Methodologies Sustain Action Method Lab, Luca Sára Bródy, Dorottya Fekete, Ioana Florea, Michaela Pixová, Dominika V. Polanska, Anna Ratecka, Ana Vilenica Antipode – A Radical Journal of Geography – First published: 3 December 2025 Abstract Problems that collective actors struggle with require collaborative and transformative knowledge production to be solved. Despite the […]
The relationship between bonuses and firm performance – by Balázs Reizer
The relationship between bonuses and firm performance by Balázs Reizer I investigate how bonus payments relate to firm performance using a large Hungarian linked employer–employee dataset. Previous literature used small-scale firm level surveys where the researchers could not observe the share of workers receiving bonuses. This measurement error may bias the estimation and may lead […]
Who is still in line? How bank beliefs drive fragility under runs – new article by Péter Csóka and Hubert János Kiss in Finance Research Letters
Who is still in line? How bank beliefs drive fragility under runs Péter Csóka, Tamás Erb, Hubert János Kiss Finance Research Letters, Volume 87, January 2026 Highlights We study how bank beliefs affect fragility during a run. We allow for arbitrary bank beliefs about types of remaining depositors. More pessimistic bank beliefs about remaining depositors […]
Dynamics of two-sided platforms in public administration – new research article by Róbert Somogyi and co-authors in Operational Research
Dynamics of two-sided platforms in public administration Fatma Aslan, Andras Nemeslaki, Robert Somogyi & Adam Janos Zsiros Operational Research – Volume 26, article number 12, (2026) – Published: 8 December 2025 Abstract This paper argues that some key aspects of the management of public platforms can be described well by using the […]
Book chapters by Réka Horeczki and Ilona Pálné Kovács has been published in Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions
Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions Concepts, Diagnosis, Dilemmas Edited by Jerzy Bański Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. – Publication Date: 2025 – ISBN: 978 1 03533 892 4 Extent: 360 pp This interdisciplinary Research Companion sheds light on territories located outside or far from urban centers. It discusses in detail the peripheralization occurring […]
The relationship between bonuses and firm performance – new research article by Balázs Reizer in Finance Research Letters
The relationship between bonuses and firm performance Balázs Reizer Finance Research Letters – Volume 86, Part C, December 2025 Highlights Uses large-sample, firm-reported data with worker-level information on wages to estimate the relationship between bonuses and firm performance. Bonus-paying firms have 3.9%–4.6% higher value added per worker and 3% higher total factor productivity. Bonuses […]
Quality of life in the EU countries and regions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic years – new research article by Csaba Lakócai in Bulletin of Geography
Quality of life in the EU countries and regions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic years Csaba Lakócai /Centre for Economic and Regional Studies – Institute of World Economics/ Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series. 2 December 2025. No. 70, pp. 125-135. Abstract The latest pandemic had disparate impacts on the quality of life of […]
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 […]
