The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams – new research article by Johannes Wachs and co-authors in Nature Communications
The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams Lorenzo Betti – Luca Gallo – Johannes Wachs – Federico Battiston Nature Communications – Volume 16, Article number: 3956 – Published: 27 April 2025 Abstract From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and innovation. Most studies consider teams as static […]
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization – by András Vigvári
Limits and openings for peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization by András Vigvari This paper contributes to new debates on urban agriculture as a sustainability tool, addressing allotment gardens and post-socialist allotment gardens in particular, as a form of urban gardening flagged as especially promising by recent research. Combining perspectives from […]
Urban highways are barriers to social ties by Sándor Juhász
Urban highways are barriers to social ties by Sándor Juhász Urban highways are often portrayed as connectors—arteries of modern mobility that bring people and places closer. But from the ground level, they often do the opposite: they divide. Especially in car-centric US cities, highways represent not convenience, but disruption—of neighborhoods, of mobility, and of […]
Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? Podcast by Andrea Szalavetz
Illustration: rawpixel.com / freepik.com Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? by Andrea Szalavetz Summary of the research paper:Szalavetz, A. (2025). Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific? Post-Communist Economies, 37(4), 299–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2025.2470007 Analysing qualitative data obtained from experts and technology startups in Central and Eastern […]
Socioeconomic inequalities and diabetes complications: an analysis of administrative data from Hungary – by Péter Elek, Balázs Mayer & Orsolya Varga
Socioeconomic inequalities and diabetes complications: an analysis of administrative data from Hungary Péter Elek -Balázs Mayer – Orsolya Varga European Journal of Public Health, Published: 8 April 2025 Abstract Diabetes complications are associated with increased healthcare costs and worsened patient outcomes. In this paper, we analyse how individual-level demographic and territorial-level socioeconomic and healthcare variables […]
Maximum-utility Popular Matchings with Bounded Instability – new research article by Ildikó Schlotter and Ágnes Cseh
Maximum-utility Popular Matchings with Bounded Instability Ildikó Schlotter – Ágnes Cseh ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, Volume 17, Issue 1Article No.: 6, Pages 1 – 35 – Published: 08 March 2025 Abstract In a graph where vertices have preferences over their neighbors, a matching is called popular if it does not lose a head-to-head […]
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Insights on Gender Differences – by Anna Adamecz
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Insights on Gender Differences – by Anna Adamecz The Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) is a well-documented psychological phenomenon stating that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with relatively higher levels of the ability. There has been much debate as to […]
Are the determinants of per capita incomes spatially homogeneous? New research article by Tibor Bareith & Adrián Csizmadia in Post-Communist Economies
Are the determinants of per capita incomes spatially homogeneous? Tibor Bareith & Adrián Csizmadia Post-Communist Economies – Published online: 6 Apr 2025 Abstract This study examines whether the determinants of per capita incomes in Hungary are spatially homogeneous or exhibit significant local variations. Using 2019 municipal-level data, we apply Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to […]
Chinese EV Battery Manufacturing in Hungary: Helping or Hingering the Green Transition? New research article by Ágnes Szunomár
Chinese EV Battery Manufacturing in Hungary: Helping or Hingering the Green Transition? Ágnes Szunomár Oxford Energy Forum – Issue 144 – April 20252025 EVs and battery supply chains issues and impacts By: The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies /OIES/, Anders Hove Policymakers are pursuing EV adoption as the automotive technology of the future due to […]
How Effective are Price Controls? Insights from the Hungarian Pork Market – by Tibor Bareith, Imre Fertő, Szilárd Podruzsik
How Effective are Price Controls?Insights from the Hungarian Pork Market Tibor Bareith, Imre Fertő, Szilárd Podruzsik Amid recent global inflationary pressures, governments have increasingly turned to price controls as a mechanism to protect consumers from rapid price increases. Hungary offers a particularly timely and illustrative case study, as it enacted significant price controls on […]
