Panel 1 – Trust and cronyism
Chair: Mária Csanádi (HAS CERS)
György Lengyel (CUB) – Laura Szabó (CUB)
Elites’ Trust in Institutions: The Hungarian Political Elite Compared
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Istvan Janos Tóth (HAS CERS) – Miklós Hajdu (CUB)
Cronyism in Hungary: Empirical analysis of public tenders 2010-2016
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József Péter Martin (Transparency International Hungary)
The Interplay between Cronyism and Economic Policy – the Case of Hungary
Panel 2 – Public debt management
Regulation and government deb
State debt in statistics and in reality: What is the impact of the seizure of the private pension fund system on the long-term financing of the state?
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Bail-out of Hungarian municipalities: short and long-term effects
Panel 3 – Civil society, populism
Institutional roots of authoritarian populism: The problem of over-centralization with reference to post-1990 Hungary
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Attila Bartha (CUB)
Deviation Again? Understanding Populism in Central Eastern European Development of Capitalism and Democracy
Ilona Tomova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The Nationalistic Challenge to the Liberal Political orientation: The Rise of Anti-Gypsism and Islamophobia in Bulgaria
Panel 4 – History of economic thoughts
Péter Mihályi (CUB)
The theories of János Kornai and a less known Hungarian economist, Ferenc Jánossy on unbalanced economic growth FULL PAPER (PDF)
Aladár Madarász (HAS CERS)
The pivot of which everything turns”
Entrepreneurship, capitalism and Schumpeter – fragments of a conceptual history
Panel 5 – Planned Economy II
Liudmyla Vozna (independent researcher)
Asymmetric Information and its Relation with the Type of Equilibrium in the Planned Economy
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Novo Plakalovic (University of East Sarajevo)
János Kornai’s evaluation of the transitional path
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Orosz Ágnes (HAS CERS)
Hungary within the East Central European welfare state regime
Panel 6 – Society
Éva Berde (CUB) – László Tőkés (CUB)
Shortage for the old and paradise (or hell) for the young?
Slawomir Czech (University of Economics in Katowice) – Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz (Jagiellonian University)
Origins of institutions in the perspective of institutional economics: A case study of women and men in pensions systems
Ilona Cserháti (CUB) – Imola Csóka (CUB) – Tibor Keresztély (CUB)
The recent role of government in mitigating socio-economic gaps
Panel 7 – Transition I
Dóra Győrffy (CUB)
What remains of the ideals of transition?
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Áron Perényi (Swinburne University of Technology) – Alexis Esposto (Swinburne University of Technology) – Malcolm Abbott (Swinburne University of Technology) – Jill Bamforth (Swinburne University of Technology)
Path dependency of institutional reform from an economic transition perspective: The case of Argentina
Michael Landesmann (WIIW) – Ivano Cardinale (Goldsmiths University of London)
Europe’s ‘other transition’: addressing Rodrik’s trilemma through evolving intermediate state structures
Panel 8 – Innovation and Finance
István Magas (CUB)
Financial adjustments to external shocks: Empirical evidence from some EU members and transition countries (1993-2014)
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Edina Berlinger (CUB) – Anita Lovas (CUB)
The effects of state subsidy on early stage innovation financing
Ágnes Nagy (Babeș-Bolyai University ) – Annamária Dézsi-Benyovszki (Babeș-Bolyai University) – Imre Székely (Babeș-Bolyai University)
Composite indicator of financial systemic stress
Panel 9 – Soft Budget Constraint I
Imre Fertő (HAS CERS)-Štefan Bojnec (University of Primorska)-József Fogarasi (AKI)- Ants Hannes Viira (EMU)
Soft budget constraint and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: A comparative analysis
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Klaus Nielsen (Birkbeck, University of London)
The prevalence of the soft budget constraint syndrome: Institutional preconditions
Péter Halmosi (University of Szeged)
The role of “soft budget” constraint in the financial crises of Detroit and Puerto Rico – Comparison
Panel 10 – Growth
Yang Zhou (West Virginia University)
The “Checks and Balances” in the Socialist Regime: the Party Chief and Mayor Template
Gábor Kutasi (CUB)
Transition from command economy to macroeconomic populism: the Baltic case
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Damian Tobin (SOAS University of London)
Currency Internationalisation and the Problem of Parallel Markets: A Historical Perspective on Hong Kong’s Renminbi market
Panel 11 – Transition II
Tamás Mellár (University of Pécs)
Can economics be free from the neoclassical market doctrine? (Continuing the anti-equilibrium)
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Tamás László Balogh (CUB) – Attila Tasnádi (CUB)
Mixed duopolies with advance production
Balázs Felsmann (CUB – REKK) – András Mezősi (CUB – REKK) – László Szabó (CUB – REKK)
Market versus bureaucracy: Price regulation in the EU electricity retail sector
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Panel 12 – Kornai’s market theory
László Jankovics (European Commission)
Independent fiscal institutions: “new kids on the block” in economic policy
László Zsolnai (CUB)
Ethics and Market: The Crowding Effect
Ádám Kerényi (HAS CERS)
János Kornai’s contribution to and beyond economics
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Panel 13 – Soft Budget Constraint II
Katalin Botos (PPCU)
SBC in historical analysis
Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs (CUB) – János Száz (CUB)
The SBC syndrome as a put-call phenomenon
Zsolt Havran (CUB) – Krisztina András (CUB)
Understanding Soft Budget Constraint in Western-European and Central-Eastern-European professional football
Panel 14 – U-turn
Matthew Stenberg (University of California, Berkeley) – Laura Jákli (University of California,Berkeley)
Subnational Institutional Conversion and Democratic Decline in Eastern Europe
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Paul Hare (Heriot-Watt University)
State-building for the Market Economy in Eastern Europe
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Lajos Bokros (CEU)
Nothing is irreversible: The Wholesale Reversal of Structural Reforms in Hungary
Panel 15 – Centralisation
András Semjén (HAS CERS) – Marcell Le (ELTE)
The desired goals and actual short-term consequences of the centralisation of public education in Hungary
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Dániel Deák (CUB)
Over-Centralisation in Hungarian Higher Education: Reasons and consequences
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Éva Krenyácz (CUB)
Modify management thinking in health care: impact of centralization
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