As a consequence of land privatization the land supply became abundant in Hungary. Many of those who bought land for compensation bonds and were not active in agriculture rented it for agricultural cooperatives and companies. Owing to the great land supply and low agricultural incomes, rents are...

One of the intriguing questions of our times is the importance of the centralization and nationalization campaigns of the 2nd and 3rd Orbán-government carried out since 2010. In an earlier working paper - Mihalyi (2015) - I demonstrated that similar policy steps were occasionally taken in other...