Program
8th May 2026 (Friday)
Location: University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
3rd floor B323 room
11:00 –11:30 Registration
11:30 – 11:40 Opening Ceremony
Anikó Bíró - President of Hungarian Society of Economics
Katalin Erdős - Vice Dean of University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
11:40 – 12:40 Plenary Session
Plenary speaker: Tamás Sebestyén, University of Pécs
Title of the presentation: Beyond Flows: Structural Drivers of Development and Resilience in Production Networks
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 – 14:20 Bennour Mohamed Hsin, University of Pécs
Title of the presentation: Contextualising Regional Technological Diversification in European Regions: Network Structure, Industrial Alignment, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Spatial Interdependence
Discussant: Balázs Lengyel, KRTK KTI (online discussion)
14:20 – 15:00 Wang Ke, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: Does Communist Party Membership Mitigate the Wage Penalty of Overeducation?
Discussant: Balázs Reizer, KRTK KTI
15:00 – 15:40 Bálint Várgedő, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: The impact of green capital requirements on bank lending and real outcomes of firms
Discussant: Ákos Tóth-Pajor, University of Pécs
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:40 Esau D'Wesah, University of Szeged
Title of the presentation: Independent Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Discipline in Sub-Saharan Africa: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Discussant: Szilárd Benk, Corvinus University of Budapest (online discussion)
16:40 – 17:20 Anikó Dobi-Rózsa, University of Pannonia
Title of the presentation: Credit Access, Financial Stress, and Participation in Residential Energy Retrofit: Evidence from Owner-Occupied Multifamily Buildings
Discussant: Tamás Briglevics, Hungarian National Bank (online discussion)
17:20 – 18:00 Zsigmond Pálvölgyi, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: Job market experiences (special session)
9th May 2024 (Saturday)
Location: University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
3rd floor B323 room
09:00 – 09:40 Zijian Xiong, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: Retirement Incentives and Labor Supply. Evidence from Hungary
Discussant: Rita Pető, KRTK KTI
09:40 – 10:20 Richárd Éberle, Eötvös Loránd University
Title of the presentation: Pricing caplets and floorlets within the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework
Discussant: Zoltán Dávid Szabó, Corvinus University of Budapest
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 11:20 Lin Xiaoru, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: Safety Net for the Elderly:Does Hungarian Public Works Programme helps the most vulnerable?
Discussant: Anikó Bíró, KRTK KTI
11:20 – 12:00 Ákos Balázs, Corvinus University of Budapest
Title of the presentation: Group-based campaign strategies in a Downsian model
Discussant: Péter Isztin, Corvinus University of Budapest (online discussion)