Purpose: Recently, a growing need for harmony has been observed worldwide. Harmony is a universal value in both Western and Asian countries. This paper aims to study how the concept of harmony is reflected in the innovation of European multinational grocery retailers and how harmony-related...

We conduct this paper on excise tax shifting in the Hungarian beer market. Using a regression model we show that tax overshifting occurs in this market. We present a model with oligopolistic competition to explain how tax overshifting can occur because of the separated vertical structure. Our...

We are grateful for the comments by Péter Bucsky on our article on Uber’s effects on bicycle sharing usage (Bakó et al., 2020). Unfortunately, we believe that the concerns raised, and criticisms made by Bucsky (2020) are either based on misunderstandings of our results or are irrelevant to...

Doktori disszertációm három kiskereskedelmi stratégia (árazás, nemzetközi diverzifikáció és innováció) hatásait elemezte a vállalatok piaci teljesítményére. A disszertáció e három kiskereskedelmi stratégiával kapcsolatos cikkből áll, amelyek különböző...

In this article we use a natural experiment to assess the effects of a public transport disruption on the bicycle sharing system ridership. We exploit maintenance work on a major tram line in Budapest. Fixed effects panel regressions are applied in a difference-in-difference setting. Our results...

The importance of student evaluation of teaching (SET) in higher education has increased substantially in the past decades. Despite this increase, there is no consensus on the most efficient way of executing these surveys or about the questions. This study analyses the impact of an SET system...

Using panel regression methods, this paper investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted bicycle sharing system (BSS) ridership in Budapest. In particular, the paper aims to separate the effects of mobility and government restrictions on BSS ridership and analyse whether long-term positive...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in health surveillance systems, disease prevention, and treatment globally. Among the many factors that might have led to these gaps is the issue of the financing of national health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries...