There seems to be a decision reached in one of the major social debates of the past years, under which the uniform, single social health insurance system in Hungary is to be retained. Regrettably overshadowed by the above debate, the place and role of complementary health insurance systems and...

A gazdasági növekedés elérése napjainkban is a gazdaságpolitika fontos problematikája. A fejlett világ gazdaságainak növekedése az utóbbi évtizedekben számottevően lassult. Tanulmányunkban az eurózóna gazdasági növekedését vizsgáljuk a 2010 és 2019 közötti időszakban a...

Achieving economic growth remains an important issue for economic policy today. Growth in developed economies has slowed considerably in recent decades. In our study, we examine economic growth in the euro area between 2010 and 2019 in the light of secular stagnation theory. The concept of...

Magyarország népessége az utóbbi évtizedekben folyamatosan csökken, egyetemben a világ fejlett országaival. A kutatások számos tényezőt azonosítanak a demográfiai folyamatokat meghatározó okként. A fertilitási ráta alacsony szintje mögött a családalapítási szokások...

After 2010, the consumer price index fell to a low level in the EU. In the euro area, it remained low between 2010 and 2020. The European Central Bank has even had to take action against the emergence of deflation. The situation changed significantly in 2021. Inflation jumped to levels not seen...

The paper seeks to answer the question of how price forecasting can contribute to which techniques gives the most accurate results in the futures commodity market. A total of two families of models (decision trees, artificial intelligence) were used to produce estimates for 2018 and 2022 for 21-...

In the present paper, we investigate the financial homogeneity of the euro area economies by contrasting eurozone countries' responses to monetary policy steps to the theoretical assumptions of the liquidity trap phenomenon. Our assumption is that the euro area economies are not completely...

Since 2013, the central bank has been responsible for supervision in Hungary. In addition to the regulatory change, a law was published in the same year that started the process of abolishing the savings co-operative system. This paper investigates the impact of these two significant changes on...

This paper investigates central bank profitability primarily focusing on its impact on the government budget. It compares the accounting profit of the four euro area countries running the highest debt and three new EU Member States in the period 1999–2013 following the introduction of the...

At the end of the '80s, Central European countries started to abandon their administratively fixed exchange rates and gradually adopted new monetary regimes with more or less emphasis on the exchange rate, inflation and growth targets. This study analyses the economic background of the choice of...