The report focuses on the potential of the development of small and mid-size businesses in Moldova. It provides an economic overview of the country, and then analyzes various best practices and lessons learned from the development of SMEs in the Visegrad countries, especially Hungary. The report...

Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...

The ongoing internationalization of production has altered the economic landscape. Many products used to be produced locally using inputs drawn largely from the domestic economy, which implied that most of the value chains or production processes used to be located in the country where a firm...

Asian foreign direct investments are significant in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Statistics compiled by the OECD's new balance of payments manual (BPM6) show that the FDI stock of Asian investors is significantly higher than the data on direct investors...

Szerte a világban valóságos válság várótermet rendeztek be maguknak a közgazdászok, ebben hosszasan elidőzve azt latolgatják, milyen előjeleket látnak, azokból milyen jövő következik, vajon lassulást vagy recessziót hoz, és mindez mikor köszönt be. Mások azt méricskélik,...

A koronavírus-járvány által okozott gazdasági visszaesés eltérő módon érintette az egyes vállalatokat. Kutatásunk a világjárványnak a Magyarországon működő külföldi tulajdonú autóipari és elektronikai leányvállalatokra gyakorolt hatására koncentrál. Tizenöt...

A hozzáadottérték-kereskedelem (TiVA) adatainak gravitációs modellekben való felhasználása új eredményeket hozhat a nemzetközi kereskedelem elemzésében. A cikk célja annak vizsgálata, hogy az OECD-országok és egyes nem OECD-országok esetében a „hagyományos”...

The paper takes a special perspective to summarise what researchers have revealed on global value chains in Hungary. The ‘space-time’ structure is how the ‘force field’ of the amount of value added is shared and how the process it creates characterises specific global value chain...

Trade analysis for open economies is strategically important. Even though Hungarian trade relations are oriented towards the EU, the direct and indirect influence of Asia, mainly China, needs special attention. The paper focuses on direct bilateral relations between Hungary and China. The global...

Central and Eastern European countries, including Czechia and Hungary, have become parts of the integrated periphery in the automotive industry. Through input-output analysis, company data and interviews, the article reveals the determining role of the industry in both economies and their deep...