Norbert Szijártó

• Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest

Since the 2010s, a populist turn has been taking place in Central and Eastern Europe, and consequently populist parties have assumed control over the respective governments. In the literature, populist rule has been characterised with a) an irresponsible fiscal policy which ignores the budget constraint; and b) a biased redistribution policy that d...

Hungary is the only member state where anti-EU rhetoric is permanently generated by the government, according to which Western civilization is jeopardised by multiculturalism, globalism, liberalism and immigration. All of these issues are said to undermine nation-states, traditions and family values. Hence, the government’s position is that the fut...

In this paper, we provide a macro-comparative assessment of welfare state convergence. Using the welfare state regime approach, the paper analyses the development of main welfare state indicators within in the enlarged European Union. In this study we capitalize on descriptive statistics and a single convergence analysis based on standard deviation...

This paper focuses on the complexity of socio-economic governance in the European Union. We define socio-economic governance as the process of governing societies in a situation where no single actor can claim absolute dominance thus socio-economic governance is the outcome of the interaction between European Union institutions (European Union deci...

This book is a summary of a research project supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. The research project – with the title: ”Factors influencing export performance – a comparison of three European regions – concentrates on export flows. The book contains studies on the macroeconomic, microeconomic and economic policy...

A tanulmány az Európai Unió strukturális politikáját és annak fejlődését egy olyan folyamatként mutatja be, amelynek során az iparpolitika vállalkozáspolitikává alakult át. Az Unió korai időszakában egyes iparágak (szén- és acélipar) kiemelt fontossággal bírtak. Idővel az Európai Közösség versenyhátrányba került az Egyesült Államokkal és Japánnal s...

Carbon pricing policy is a fundamental humanly devised theoretical and practical cornerstone in the fight against climate change. It involves short term and long term policies, theoretical and practical considerations. A quantitative global stabilisation target range for the stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is needed, because it is an im...

Global warming16 has already begun. Climate change has become a self-propelling and self-reinforcing process as a result of the externality associated with greenhouse- gas (GHG) emissions. Although it is an externality related to humankind, according to a number of unique features we should distinguish it from other externalities. Climate change is...

This paper examines the methodological aspect of climate change, particularly the aggregation of costs and benefits induced by climate change on individuals, societies, economies and on the whole ecosystem. Assessing the total and/or marginal costs of environmental change is difficult because of wide range of factors that have to be involved. The s...