This paper provides a detailed description of Hungarian trade data and key patterns drawn at the firm and product level. In the Bernard et al. (2007) tradition, statistics describe the prevalence of trading activity, typology of firms by internationalisation, and concentration of trade volume...

This paper investigates how companies manage risk associated with political ties in the context of the ‘return of state capitalism' in an emerging economy. We show that existing studies of firms' copying strategies under autocratic regimes are of limited relevance in the context of Hungary,...

We use firm-level data from Hungary to estimate knowledge spillovers in importing through fine spatial and managerial networks. By identifying from variation in peers' import experience across source countries, by comparing the spillover from neighboring buildings with a cross-street placebo,...