Imre Fertő is third best ranked in Research.com Best Economics and Finance Scientists in Hungary

a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2026 Edition of Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance. Imre Fertő director and scientific advisor of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies had ranked 3rd in Hungary. The ranking is based on D-index (Discipline H-index) metric, which only […]
Foreign direct investment and trade patterns in the European Union – study by Tamás Csontos, Andrea Éltető and Magdolna Sass in Regional Statistics

Foreign direct investment and trade patterns in the European Union Csontos Tamás, Éltető Andrea, Sass Magdolna Regional Statistics, Vol. 16. No. 2. 2026: 388–420 Competitiveness is a central concept in European Union (EU) policy discourse; however, recent reports on the single market and competitiveness frequently underestimate the pivotal role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and […]
Fairer than Fair: Sharp Bounds for Connected Super-Proportional Cake Cutting – co-authored research article by Zsuzsanna Jankó

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research – Vol. 85 (2026) – Published: Apr 17, 2026
Mental Mapping to Explore the Risk Landscape of Wine Producers in Climate Change – by Gábor Király and Bálint Koós

Mental Mapping to Explore the Risk Landscape of Wine Producers in Climate Change Gábor Király, Bálint Koós This research paper investigates the complex and interconnected risk environment confronting Hungarian wine producers in the Mátra wine region, a climatically sensitive area in Central Europe. The study employs an innovative individual-based mental mapping methodology, combined with […]
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 […]