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Changing and continuous patterns of regional development disparities in Hungary, 1910–2022 by Róbert Győri and György Mikle  Read more

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SSH CENTRE project has successfully concluded – Summary video Read more

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Beyond roles: shared value orientations and attitudes in local food systems - new study by Zsófia Benedek, Gusztáv Nemes, Imre Fertő & Zoltán Bakucs Read more

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Industrial symbiosis potential in Uganda's Kampala Industrial and Business Park. Sustainability challenges and opportunities - by Gergely Buda Read more

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Varieties of dependent growth models: External finance in Central and Eastern European economies – new study by Tamás Tibor Csontos has published in Acta Oeconomica journal

Varieties of dependent growth models:External finance in Central and Eastern European economies Tamás T. Csontos Acta Oeconomica – Online Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025 Abstract This paper explores the changing landscape of external finance in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following the global financial crisis of 2008. Through comparative statistical analysis, it traces shifts in […]

Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports – co-authored study by Andrea Éltető has published inJournal of Applied Economics

Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports: experience from the Central and Southeast European countries Bojan Shimbov, Andrea Éltető & Maite Alguacil Journal of Applied Economics – Published online: 12 Oct 2025   Abstract This paper examines the relationship between global value chain (GVC) participation and technology absorption in Central and Southeast European […]

European Innovation Award for Kidney Transplantation Software Developed with the Participation of Mechanism Design Research Group led by Péter Biró

Péter Biró and his Mechanism Design Research Group  participated in the development of a software tool called KEPsoft, which has won an Innovation Award from the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO).  The four-member consortium representing Hungary’s ELTE KRTK Institute of Economics, founded with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as […]

The Governance and Development Policy Dimensions of the Success of Rural Proofing – new research article by István Finta in European Countryside

  The Governance and Development Policy Dimensions of the Success of Rural Proofing István Finta European Countryside – Volume 17 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)    Abstract Faced with different problems and growth opportunities, regions pose challenges for national central governments and even for the European Union as a whole, requiring the development of area-sensitive interventions such as rural proofing. Due to […]

When Ethical Meets Entrepreneurial: How SME Leaders in Resource-Constrained Economies Can Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage – by Szilárd Podruzsik

When Ethical Meets Entrepreneurial: How SME Leaders in Resource-Constrained Economies Can Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Szilárd Podruzsik   In Jordan’s challenging business environment – marked by severe water scarcity, high unemployment, and the integration of over 1.3 million refugees – SMEs face an uncomfortable truth: approximately 70% fail within their first five years. Yet […]

Why Sri Lanka’s smallholder rice farmers hold the key to sustainable water management – by Imre Fertő

Why Sri Lanka’s smallholder rice farmers hold the key to sustainable water management by Imre Fertő Water is both the lifeblood and the Achilles’ heel of Sri Lanka’s rice economy. For generations, the island’s ancient irrigation systems have sustained paddy cultivation—the foundation of food security and rural livelihoods. Yet, as climate variability intensifies, these same […]

Paradiplomacy in Hungary: A New Research Topic? – book chapter by Balázs Brucker and Zsuzsanna Zsibók

  Paradiplomacy in Hungary: a new research topic? Balázs Brucker & Zsuzsanna Zsibók In: The paradiplomacy worldwide. TIP – Trabajos de Investigación en Paradiplomacia” (year 1). University of Lodz; Asociación Civil Paradiplomacia, Lódz, Buenos Aires, pp. 126-143  Volume 1. Theoretical Approaches ‘The Paradiplomacy Worldwide’: http://bit.ly/47I9skZ Volume 2. Practical Approaches ‘The Paradiplomacy Worldwide’: http://bit.ly/45HZjSS   Abstract […]

New research articles by Péter Balogh and László Lőrincz in the special issue of Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics, titled: Text as Data

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics – Vol. 11 No. 1 (2025): Text as Data – Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science – Part 2 – special issue  ELTE Centre for Social Sciences – Published: 2025-09-18   What else comes with a geographical concept beyond geography? […]

Demographic Transformation, Eroding Social Capital and Segregation on Outskirt Areas of Hungarian Cities – by Gábor Vasárus

  Demographic Transformation, Eroding Social Capital and Segregation on Outskirt Areas of Hungarian Cities  by Gábor Vasárus   The spatial dynamics of Hungarian urban outskirts reveal a multifaceted and multi-scalar picture of segregation. While certain phases have seen a decline in micro-level segregation due to the mosaic-like arrival of new residents, sharp differentiation between neighbourhoods is […]

Popular Maximum-Utility Matchings with Matroid Constraints – new co-authored article by Gergely Csáji in Mathematics of Operations Research journal

  Popular Maximum-Utility Matchings with Matroid Constraints Gergely Csáji, Tamás Király, Kenjiro Takazawa, Yu Yokoi  Mathematics of Operations Research – Published Online:23 Sep 2025  Abstract We investigate weighted settings of popular matching problems with matroid constraints. The concept of popularity was originally defined for matchings in bipartite graphs, where vertices have preferences over the incident […]