Balázs Kotosz

IESEG School of Management

Today, the realization that certain economic units, such as universities or other large tertiary educational institutions have an impact on the economy of their region has gained prominence. There is a growing demand for precise studies on the economic impact of such entities, and the issue has attracted considerable attention in the scientific com...

L’impact économique local d’une institution d’enseignement supérieure comme une université est une question qui a été largement abordée dans la littérature. L’étude d’impact économique est devenue également un outil standard utilisé à faire prendre conscience les États de l’importance des dépenses dans l’enseignement supérieur. La définition la plu...

Az Európai Unióhoz 2004-ben csatlakozott a négy visegrádi ország (V4), Csehország, Lengyelország, Magyarország és Szlovákia. Az itt élők nagy reményeket fűztek a csatlakozáshoz, a vérmesebb elvárások szerint pár éven belül életszínvonaluk felzárkózhat a fejlett nyugati tagállamokéhoz. A „felzárkózás”, „közeledés”, „utolérés”, egy bizonyos felfogásb...

Thrombo-haemorrhagic events are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in essential thrombocythemia. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of thrombotic events and the impact of the JAK2V617F, MPL (W515L, W515K, W515R, W515A and S505N) and CALR (type-1, type-2) mutations on 101 essential thrombocythaemia patients (72 females and 29...

The catch-up of Eastern European economies to EU-15 countries has come into prominence since the early 1990s. In our analysis, we use NUTS2/3 delimitation and per capita GDP in PPS USD and chain linked volumes in euro data for the period of 2000-2014 with shorter sub-sample periods. The per capita GDP doubled on the average in the reference period,...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led the French government to introduce social distancing measures. This article focuses on its effects on the health and well-being of the French people. Based on a survey conducted, during the great lock-down, among a sample of 10,976 French people representative of the French adult metropolitan population, it reveals a d...

The Kenyan livestock sector has a high potential for economic development and poverty reduction amongst smallholder rural communities. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, the estimation of technical efficiency of the livestock farmers with respect to farms heterogeneity. In this way, the paper seeks to address the question of proper model spec...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide an empirical analysis of the impact of external debt on total factor productivity (TFP) and growth along with the TFP channel through which external debt affects the growth of heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs). Design/methodology/approach This study uses panel data econometrics; basically, the...

This paper evaluates output supply and input factor demands for livestock products in the Southern rangelands of Kenya. A flexible translog profit function that permits the application of the primal approach to the output supply and factor demand analysis was estimated using household-level data. The results indicate that the own-price elasticities...

In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social-distancing measures, including a lockdown with the primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order to limit the spread of the virus. This paper seeks to determine whether social-distancing measures and...

Background: Protecting the health of citizens is a central aim of sustainable development plans, due to the effect of health on social and economic development. However, studies show that environment-related diseases adversely affect the health status of a people, and this situation is worse for African countries. The Sustainable Development Goals...

Despite there being incredible challenges in enhancing livestock development in Kenya, this article isolates product supply and factors input demand responsiveness as the main constraints facing the smallholder. A flexible-Translog profit function permits the application of dual theory in the analysis of livestock product supply and factor demand r...

Although Ethiopia is one of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), there is a lack of empirical studies about the determinants of its external indebtedness. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the macroeconomic determinants of the external indebtedness of Ethiopia between 1981 and 2016, using the two- and three-gap models as a theore...

Despite the well-known potential benefits of equality of income in economic growth, the statistics for Kenya show that income is heavily skewed in favour of the rich and against the poor with the country's top 10% households controlling 42% of the total income while the bottom 10% controls less than 1%. The existing empirical evidence for the Kenya...

To achieve high and sustainable economic growth, full employment and stable prices, countries are using macroeconomic policies called; the fiscal and the monetary policies. Regarding the effectiveness of these theories, there are two different arguments; monetarists and Keynesian.

The Ricardian equivalence hypothesis (REH) suggests that when the government attempts to stimulate the economy by raising debt-financed government spending, consumption and demand do not increase but rather remain the same. The objective of this study is to test the existence of the REH in Ethiopia, using annual data from 1990 to 2011 and by employ...

Despite there being incredible challenges in enhancing livestock development in Kenya, this article isolates product supply and factors input demand responsiveness as the main constraints facing the smallholder. A flexible-Translog profit function permits the application of dual theory in the analysis of livestock product supply and factor demand r...

The green economy aims to achieve economic growth and development without an adverse effect on the environment. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis explains the relationship between economic activity and environmental degradation. Using the EKC hypothesis as a theoretical framework, this study tested the EKC hypothesis for 12 East Afri...

Livestock represents 12% of Kenya's economy, and an increase in its efficiency can improve development and reduce poverty. A parametric stochastic frontier model was fitted to a large farm‐level cross‐sectional data set to estimate the efficiency levels and the underlying sources of the output's departure from the optimal levels. We found that the...

A tanulmány a négy visegrádi ország (Csehország, Lengyelország, Magyarország és Szlovákia) térségeinek konvergenciafolyamatait vizsgálja a 2000 és 2014 kö-zötti időszakban. A szerzők a NUTS 3 területi egysége-ket veszik alapul, mert azok pontosabban tükrözik a gazdaság valós térszerkezetét, mint a hasonló elemzé-sekben szokásos NUTS 2 régiók; a tér...

The majority of Central and Eastern European post-socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the catching up processes of less developed regions and the...

Földrajzilag a tanyák a vidék szerves részét képezik. Helyzetük kettős, méretük és termelési kapacitásuk következtében sebezhetők, ugyanakkor a helyi erőforrásokra és a szabadidős kapacitásokra támaszkodó értékteremtési lehetőségeik előnnyé válhatnak. A ku-tatás célja az aktuális információk szerzése (elhagyatottság, infrastruktúra, típusok, fejles...

The realization that certain economic units, universities, or other entities have an impact on the economy of their region has come more and more into prominence. The topic of the examination of economic impact is especially interesting and exciting when we can compare regions which have different levels of development, yet have the presence of an...

After September 2001, but particularly after the events of 2015 and 2016, the geopolitical situation of the world was radically changed. New hot spots were created, including the European migrant crisis and its local manifestations. In this paper, we focus on the Serbian‐Hungarian border where the fence building has turned this research relevant. T...

Government spending patterns in developing countries have changed dramatically over the last several decades. This paper aims at analysing the relation between government expenditures (GE) and economic growth in Kenya. The study focuses on testing the various versions of Wagner’s hypothesis using Kenya, data from 1967-2012 by an Autoregressive-Dist...

The spending patterns of governments in the world especially developing economies have changed significantly over the last several decades. The main objective of this paper is analysing the relationship between government expenditures and growth in Burkina Faso’s economy. The study focuses on testing the various versions of Wagner’s hypothesis usin...

Napjainkban egy egyetem jelenléte számos dimenzió mentén hozzáadott értéket teremt abban a térségben, ahol működik, és egyre inkább előtérbe kerül az a felismerés, hogy helyi gazda-ságfejlesztésre gyakorolt hatása számottevő. Ez a jelenség egyre nagyobb igényt támaszt olyan tanulmányok iránt, amelyek ezeknek az intézményeknek a gazdasági hatását sz...

Bár a felsőoktatási intézmények helyi gazdaságra gyakorolt hatásának mérése az 1970-es évekre nyúlik vissza, napjainkig sem alakult ki olyan egységes módszertan, amellyel térben és időben összehasonlítható eredményekhez lehetne hozzájutni. Néhány mérföldkőnek számí-tó munka kísérletet tett az elért elméleti eredmények szintetizálására, azonban a sz...

The main aim of the paper is to show a theoretical overview of the possibilities of local convergence measurement. In the first part, we summarized different approaches of convergence (absolute, conditional and club convergence) and also defined the difference between global and local indicators. We focused on global measurement of convergence thro...

Napjainkban egy egyetem jelenléte számos dimenzió mentén hozzáadott értéket teremt ab-ban a térségben, ahol működik, és egyre inkább előtérbe kerül az a felismerés, hogy helyi gazdaságfejlesztésre gyakorolt hatása számottevő. Ez a jelenség egyre nagyobb igényt támaszt olyan tanulmányok iránt, amelyek ezeknek az intézményeknek a gazdasági hatását sz...

Nowadays the realization that certain economic units, universities or other objects have impact on the economy of their region comes more and more into prominence. A growing demand appears to generate more precise studies regarding the quantification of economic impact of these entities. The topic of the examination of economic impact is especially...

Nowadays the realization that certain economic units, universities or other objects have impact on the economy of their region comes more and more into prominence. A growing demand appears to generate more precise studies regarding the quantification of economic impact of these entities. The topic of the examination of economic impact is especially...

Essential thrombocythaemia (ET) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm in which there is an increased risk of thrombotic complications. The conventional thrombosis risk assessment of these patients is based on an age over 60 and a history of thrombosis. The aim of this report is to analyse the contribution of cardiovascular risk (CV) factors as possible...

OBJECTIVE: In polycythaemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythaemia (ET), the life expectancy of the patients is greatly affected by thrombotic events. An investigation was performed of the potential association of PV/ET, and thrombotic complications with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, a leukocyte count at the haematological diagnosis > 11.1 G/...

Az MTMT adattárában Lengyel Imre publikációs jegyzéke 219 bejegyzésbl áll. A tanulmányban azt vizsgáltuk, hogy ezek megjelenési helyének területi megoszlása milyen jellegzetességekkel bír. Mivel a 219 tanulmány közül 197 Magyarországon jelent meg, több területi szinten elvégeztük a számításokat, illetve a területi egyenlőtlenségek mérésére használa...

One of the most important synthetist of the practical socialist theory is János Kornai. In his works he tempted to describe the working mechanism of the socialist economy in actual practice. The first part of the paper is to gather special keywords and analytical tools of Kornai’s description. As economist, the main tool is the description of deman...

The effects of fiscal policy on economic growth, and more generally the relationship between government expenditures and output is a central question in macroeconomics. In this paper we use a two-equation VAR model to estimate a mixed (Keynesian and Lucasian) theoretical model on Hungarian data between 1960 and 2011. We found that results differ in...

The local economic impact of a large tertiary education institution such as a university is an issue which has attracted considerable attention in literature. Beck et al (1995, 246) define economic impact as „the difference between existing economic activity in a region given the presence of the institution and the level that would have been presen...

In developed countries, independent central banks control monetary policy. The goals and instruments of monetary policy are taught in every economics course; however, at times theory fails to work perfectly in practice. In our paper, we review the system of inflation targeting applied by the Hungarian central bank in the past ten years, as well as...

A fejlett országokban a monetáris politika irányítói a független jegybankok. A monetáris politika célkitűzéseit, eszköztárát minden közgazdasági kurzuson oktatják, a tankönyvi elmélet azonban sokszor nem működik tökéletesen a valóságban. Tanulmányunkban áttekintjük a magyar jegybank utóbbi tíz évben megvalósított inflációs célkövetéses rendszerét,...

The local economic impact of a large tertiary education institution such as a university is an issue which has attracted considerable attention in literature. Beck et al (1995, 246) define economic impact as „the difference between existing economic activity in a region given the presence of the institution and the level that would have been presen...

Background: Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a clonal BCR-ABL1-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). Life expectancy of ET patients is strongly affected by thrombotic events. Investigation of risk factors of thrombotic events in ET women should be important, since changes in their lifetime conditions such as pregnancy or climacterium could h...

In the new world financial, economic and nowadays debt crisis, the role of international organizations is in focus again. The financial crisis opens the way for IMF credits and for thinking in the European Union. After the second millenary, a scientific dispute started about the credibility of the Washington Consensus in many parts of the world. A...

The local economic impact of a large tertiary education institution such as a university is an issue which has attracted considerable attention in literature. Beck et al (1995, 246) define economic impact as „the difference between existing economic activity in a region given the presence of the institution and the level that would have been presen...

Sustainable development has been an important focus of current researches. To be able to test the theories, to develop goals, and to control their fulfillment we need measurement. The three main fields of sustainable development (economic, societal and ecological) have a series of indicators, but these indicators are not always applicable to achiev...

The export base theory is really based on the regional multiplicator theory of international economy. In the paper, we step over the usual textbook examples and show how the multiplicator can be less than one, practically decreasing local income. We also analyze a special multiplication process, in particular the role of higher education institutio...

Few concepts appear to have captured the public and political imagination more than that of 'sustainable development'. The concept is intended to embrace the idea of ensuring that future generations inherit an Earth which will support their livelihoods in such a way that they are no worse off than generations today. GDP shortcomings, as an index fo...

One of the most frequently used measures of health-related beliefs has been the multidimensional health locus of control scales. Much of the factor analytic research previously conducted with the MHLCS has involved exploratory (rather than confirmatory) factor analytic techniques. These studies have explored different number of factors in their sam...

Few concepts appear to have captured the public and political imagination more than that of ‘sustainable development’. The concept is intended to embrace the idea of ensuring that future generations inherit an Earth which will support their livelihoods in such a way that they are no worse off than generations today. GDP shortcomings, as an index fo...

The collapse of communist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most far-reaching economic events of the 20th century. Pain accompanied the economic transition process; all countries experienced a major fall in output after the start of reforms....

Írásunk témája a pénzegység alapú mintavétel, amely az 530. témaszámú standardban az 1. sz. függelékben és a 4. sz. függelékében szerepel, mint a mintavételezésre ajánlott módszerek egyike. Bemutatjuk a módszer statisztikai és nem statisztikai változatát, áttekintjük a mintanagyságot befolyásoló tényezőket és azok meghatározását, a kiértékelést, és...

The collapse of communist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most far-reaching economic events of the 20th century. Pain accompanied the economic transition process; all countries experienced a major fall in output after the start of reforms....

In simulational studies, it is often necessary to generate random numbers coming from distributions that have specified properties. If a well-known, typical distribution is used, the necessary steps can be performed easily, and they are included in statistical program packages. However, if we need distributions that have properties considered to be...

France has got administratively four overseas departments (DOM – Département d’Outre-Mer) in the world: Guadeloupe, Martinique in the Antilles (Atlantic Ocean), Guyana on the South-American continent, and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Their official category in the European Union is “outermost regions” (including the Spanish Canary Islands and the A...

The main of the paper is to summarize and analyse the changes of education of elementary or introductionary statistics in the field of social science studies in Hungarian higher education. In the pre-Bologna period, there was a relatively important differentiation by specialization. Some students had only a one semester course (composed of lecture...

In this paper, we will examine the application of the Monte Carlo method in the testing of the robustness of statistical tests. The very computation-intensive Monte Carlo testing was im-plemented using the so-called GP-GPU method, which utilises the video cards’ GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) to perform the necessary calculations. The robustness o...

The borders of the agglomerations can be located by the administrative units, but these limitations do not reflect the borders of functional spaces. The aim of this paper is to show and apply a special locating method by the example of Budapest. The main idea is the motorway effect (the shortest way is generally not the quickest) applied to passeng...

A gazdaságpolitikai programokkal kapcsolatosan számos esetben született konszenzus bizonyos meghatározó befolyással bíró körökben. Ezek közül a legtöbbet említett a washingtoni konszenzus névre hallgató program, amely a számos kritika ellenére a kelet-európai rendszerváltás egyik sarokköve lett. A tanulmányban a washingtoni konszenzust követően meg...

sszefoglalás: Az ezredfordulót követően jelentős vita indult meg a washingtoni konszenzus hitelességével kapcsolatban. Sergi, Tamborini és Bagatelas munkái nyomán európai kontextusban a washingtoni konszenzus helyét a brüsszeli konszenzus vette át. Ahhoz, hogy Európa sikeres gazdaságpolitikát folytathasson – különösen a globális válság idején – a k...

The collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most far-reaching economic events of the 20 th century. Now, time series are enough long to analyse them with up-to-date econometric methods. The idea of the theoretical background o...

In the new world economic crisis, the role of international organizations is in focus again. The financial crisis opens the way for IMF credits and for thinking in the European Union. After the second millenary, a scientific dispute started about the credibility of the Washington Consensus in many parts of the world. A new school emerged around Bru...

The borders of the agglomerations can be located by administrative units, but these limitations often do not reflect the borders of functional spaces. The aim of this paper is to show and apply a special locating method by the example of Budapest. The main idea is the motorway effect (the shortest way is generally not the quickest) applied to passe...

A tanulmány célja, hogy egy – a közlekedési szokásokat vizsgáló – 2007-ben készült kérdőíves felmérés eredményeit ismertesse. A felmérés célja öt hipotézis vizsgálata volt, amelyek a vonatkozó szakirodalom szerint a környezettudatosság, a migráció és a mobilitás összefüggéseit írja le. A felmérés eredményei alapján a megfogalmazott öt állítás közül...

A Budapesti Corvinus Egyetemen a gólyák körében egyetemi szintű, egységes felmérésre első alkalommal 2007-ben került sor. Ennek apropóját elsősorban az új képzési rendre való áttérés adta. Az átalakulás bizonytalanságai közepette különösen fontosnak tűnik a hallgatók pályaválasztási okainak és mikéntjének megértése, illetve a jövőbeli terveik megis...

The collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most farreaching economic events of the 20th century. The paper is looking for the reasons and for the effects of the fiscal policy.

France has got administratively four overseas departments (DOM – Département d'Outre-Mer) in the world: Guadeloupe, Martinique in the Antilles (Atlantic Ocean), Guyana on the South-American continent, and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Their official category in the European Union is "outermost regions" (including the Spanish Canary Islands and the A...

La chute des économies communistes en Europe de l'Est, et la transition consécutive à l'économie de marché était sans doute l'un des plus radicals événements économiques du 20 ème siècle. Les conditions initiales des pays étaient certainement différentes, mais la politique économique appliquée, aussi. Certains pays ont suivi la thérapie de choc néo...

Un des économistes les plus importants qui ont synthetisé la théorie socialiste pratique est János Kornai. Dans ses oeuvres il a tenté de décrire le mécanisme de l'économie socialiste tel qu'il fonctionne dans la pratique réelle. La première partie de l'article se propose de recueillir des mots-clés spécifique et des outils analytiques de la descri...

France has got administratively four overseas departments (DOM – Département d'Outre-Mer) in the world: Guadeloupe, Martinique in the Antilles (Atlantic Ocean), Guyana on the South-American continent, and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Their official category in the European Union is "outermost regions" (including the Spanish Canary Islands and the A...

The borders of the agglomerations can be located by administrative units, but these limitations often do not reflect the borders of functional spaces. The aim of this paper is to show and apply a special locating method by the example of Budapest. The main idea is the motorway effect (the shortest way is generally not the quickest) applied to passe...

Nowadays, the quickest and the widest medium is the Internet. For the participants of the higher education this information channel is easily accessible. However, the content of the homepages is frequently incomplete and out-of-date. My survey during the summer holiday of 2005 was about the informative function of the homepages of Departments of St...

A tanulmány 18 kelet-európai rendszerváltó ország költségvetési sarokszámainak alakulását foglalja össze, kiegészítve a tendenciák hátterét megvilágító általános makrogazdasági folyamatok bemutatásával. Az általános makrogazdasági összefoglaló segítséget nyújt az adott országot kevésbé ismerôknek a fôbb folyamatok felidézéséhez. Az államháztartási...

The fall of the so-called socialist economies, as well as their transition to market economies, had one of the most interesting and long lasted economic events of the 20th century. Recently, time series became long enough to be analysed by modern econometric methods. With a simple, two-equation, linear model we can analyse and compare the fiscal po...

One of the most important synthesist of the practical socialist theory is János Kornai. In his works he tempted to describe the working mechanism of the socialist economy in actual practice. The first part of the paper is to gather special keywords and analytical tools of Kornai's description. As economist, the main tool is the description of deman...

1. A gyorsan változó környezetben a költségvetési politikának volt hatása, szerepe, mégha ez a hatás más mechanizmusok szerint, vagy kevésbé hatékonyan érvényesült is, mint Nyugat-Európában, vagy Amerikában. Az állami feladat- és hatáskör átalakulásával az államháztartás bevételei és kiadásai, azok begyűjtési és szétosztási csatornái átalakultak, t...

A tanulmány célja, hogy a tervgazdaságból a piacgazdaságba való átmenet költségvetési politikáját vizsgálja. Az irodalomban már vannak a választott módszernek elõzményei, elsõsorban Alberto Alesina és szerzõtársai munkáiban. A módszer lényege, hogy különbözõ könnyen megragadható, értelmezhetõ kategóriákba soroljuk a költségvetési politika egyenlegs...

A tanulmány célja, hogy egy 2003-ban készült lakossági felmérés eredményeit ismertesse. A kutatás célja az volt, hogy feltérképezze Magyarország államhatárai mentén (a határ mindkét oldalán) a helyi lakosság határral kapcsolatos képét. A kérdések négy nagy témakör köré csoportosultak: egyrészt a határral kapcsolatos általános attitűdre, másrészt a...

The collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most far-reaching economic events of the 20th century. Pain accompanied the economic transition process; all countries experienced a major fall in output after the start of reforms....

A XX. század egyik legérdekesebb makrogazdasági változása a kelet-európai országok rendszerváltása volt. A folyamat különböző típusú és struktúrájú reformok sorozatát is jelentette. A reformok bevezetését, végrehajtását sokan értékelték, de azok objektív mé-réséről keveset tudunk. A Világbank hasonló kísérletén túl csak az Európai Újjáépítési és Fe...

A XX. század egyik legérdekesebb makrogazdasági változása a kelet-európai orszá-gok rendszerváltása volt. A folyamat különböző típusú és struktúrájú reformok sorozatát is jelentette. A reformok bevezetését, végrehajtását sokan értékelték, de azok objektív mé-réséről keveset tudunk. A Világbank hasonló kísérletén túl csak az Európai Újjáépítési és F...

he collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as their subsequent transition towards market economies, was arguably one of the most far-reaching economic events of the 20th century. Pain accompanied the economic transition process; all countries experienced a major fall in output after the start of reforms. T...

The paper is looking for the reasons of the growth differences in transition economies. Empirical analyses justify that GOP grolNth is higher in countries where state reallocation is decreasing and where a tight fiscal policy has been kept. We can identify several budget restrictions that have expansionary effects, especially in the case of conside...

A gazdaságpolitika elemzőinek igényeit szem előtt tartva a Nemzetközi Valutaalap az államháztartás pénzügyi műveleteiről egységes, széles körű adatgyűjtést szorgalmaz. Az 1986-ban közzétett irányelveinek ellenére azonban a rendelkezésre álló publikált adatok a mai napig rendszerezetlenek, hiányosak, ellentmondásosak. Különösen érvényes ez Kelet-Eur...

Magyarország Európai Uniós csatlakozása mára már ténnyé vált. Az európai integráció folyamatának következő állomása a Gazdasági és Monetáris Unió (Economic and Monetary Union, EMU) tagjává válás. Ehhez elengedhetetlen, hogy hazánk teljesítse a Maastrichtban megfogalmazott konvergencia-kritériumokat. Így szükséges az infláció megfelelő mértékű leszo...

A tanulmány célja, hogy összevessen egy elméletet (Summers, 1981) egy gyakorlati probléma megoldására tett javaslattal (Laffer, 2001). Természetesen egy elméleti munka sohasem tud annyira specifikus lenni, mint azok a szituációk, amelyekben a gazdasági döntéshozóknak munkájukat kell végezni, de tekintettel arra, hogy Summers is számos empirikus tap...