The drivers of regional economic development in Central and Eastern Europe in the pre- and post-pandemic era

2023.09.29.

      Reginar is the English-language online webinar of the Institute for Regional Studies. In this session, we can listen to the exciting discussion of four excellent scholars of economics and human geography. Economic development in post-transition countries is dominated by the performance of capital cities, although second-tier cities are also important drivers of […]

3rd Visegrad conference

2023.05.22.

3rd Visegrad conference   Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Date: 22nd and 23rd of May, 2023 Venue: online (Zoom) and onsite (KRTK VGI, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán 4.)   The third Visegrad conference concentrates on various actual areas of cooperation and comparison between the four countries. The Visegrad economies form […]

KTI Seminar: Alison Schultz - Guns and Kidneys: How Transplant Tourism Finances Global Conflict

2022.12.01.

13.00-15.00 Abstract This paper investigates the impact of organ trafficking on local conflict using georeferenced data on conflict events and hand-collected data on local transplant infrastructure in eight countries known for illegal transplanting. I exploit exogenous variation in kidney demand measured by the number of U.S. waiting list patients, their payment capacity, and their physical […]

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022

2022.11.24.

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022 Structural Transformations in a Crises-driven World Economy 24–25 November 2022 Budapest, Hungary / Online Central European University (CEU) Nádor street 15, 1051 Budapest Website: www.svoc-conference.webnode.hu/ Organisers: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and Democracy Institute, Central European University INTRODUCTION […]

Reginar: Borders, Regional Cooperation and Geopolitics in Times of Conflict

2022.09.30.

  Reginar is the new English-language online webinar of the Institute for Regional Studies. In the first session four excellent scholars of our Institute, James W. Scott, Péter Balogh, Péter Reményi and Zoltán Pámer talk about borders, regional cooperation and geopolitics in times of conflict and about Hungarian perspectives. The event is part of the […]