1) Background: Financial literacy, its attitudinal and behavioral components are subject to increasing awareness in Hungary, especially after the economical crisis of 2018. 2) Methods: Our study examines the selected aspects of the Hungarian young adults’ behavior, using the data of the survey...

The aim of the research is to explore the financial knowledge, attitudes, confidence, behaviour and motivations of teachers (N=752) teaching different subjects. The survey is particularly important because their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours affect the financial awareness of the students...

All other things being equal by 2060 out of 10 of the working age population 6 pensioners will be accounted for. This does constitute a risk for the sustainability of pensions. Our study has analysed the most recent data on demographics, economy, employment, and its underlying factors, as well...

The research assessed whether progress has been made in the education and development of financial awareness in Hungary since 2016. We reviewed the changes in the state’s role in the development of financial literacy, and in a questionnaire survey we examined what kind of organizations, who...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new method to measure Financial Vulnerability Index (FVI) based on OECD financial literacy survey, and to analyse the 2018 OECD survey data along FVI. The sample used in the article is representative for Hungary (sample size: 1,001). Our analysis sharply...

Owing to its hiding nature, corruption is difficult to measure. However, measurements lacking sufficient methodological grounds and the rankings so created pose just as much of economic risk as the corruption itself. The objective of the present study is to examine the methodological compliance...

In the past few years, competitiveness has become one of the main focus of economic policy. This study provides an overview of the measurement risks mentioned in the references in connection with the measuring of competitiveness, and using the method of document analysis it evaluates whether the...

2017 marks the seventh year that the State Audit Office of Hungary conducted an Integrity Survey evaluating the corruption risks of public sector institutions and the availability of integrity controls ensuring protection against corruption. 3346 organisations provided data for the research....

Between 2010 and 2015, the economic and financial situation of Hungary and the Hungarian population was marked by fundamental changes. In our research, we sought to find out how this affected the financial literacy of the population. Our research database was based upon the OECD surveys...

The standard of financial literacy affects the effective management of economic and income shocks both on the individual and national levels. Earlier surveys implied the ineffectiveness of financial literacy enhancing training programmes in Hungary. We surveyed the training organisations by...