Economic Analyses in Spring 2025 Since 2001, Külgazdaság has been publishing the forecasts and analyses of economic researchers, including the outlook of the National Bank of Hungary. For last year, the government’s goals included dynamic economic growth, mitigating inflation and…

Inquiry of the editors of Külgazdaság WILL THERE BE A NEW WORLD ORDER? IF SO, WHAT KIND? OR WILL CHAOS BE ORDER? MOREOVER, WHERE WILL HUNGARY LAND? Global disorder, global (dis)order, global dis-order. The English term is varied depending on…

Financial adaptation of sectors in the Hungarian economy during the coronavirus pandemic BÉLA KÁDÁR – SZILÁRD HEGEDŰS The coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken to mitigate its effects have had a significant impact on the Hungarian economy, with varying degrees…

Abstract The Recovery and Resilience Facility at mid-term: a successful new support instrument of the European Union? SAROLTA SOMOSI – BEÁTA FARKAS At the heart of the European Union’s NextGenerationEU financial support programme, launched in 2020, is the Recovery and…

Guns or butter: the fiscal readiness of EU member states for Russia’s war against Ukraine GÁBOR KUTASI – ÁDÁM MARTON – GRZEGORZ WASZKIEWICZ: The guns or butter dilemma is a special case of the trade-offs in public funds, which arises…

Economic policy mix: a simplifying trilemma ÁDÁM CZELLENG The aim of this paper is to analyse the changing set of objectives of monetary and fiscal policies and to show the short-term and long-term effects of tools used according to these…

The fate of battery waste: regulation and technology DÓRA GYŐRFFY The paper examines what happens at the end of the battery value chain, i.e. what happens to waste, in the context of the development of the battery industry in Hungary.…

Inquiry of the editors of Külgazdaság: Should we rethink economic policy after the Great Pandemic and the Great Inflation? Recession or inflation? Or is there another choice? – this was the question asked a year ago by the editors of…

Central and Eastern Europe’s dependency on Russian gas: What changed between 2004 and 2019? CSABA WEINER – PÉTER KOTEK – BORBÁLA TAKÁCSNÉ TÓTH The Eastern enlargements of the EU increased the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas and contributed to a…

Economic analysis in spring 2024 Külgazdaság has been publishing forecasts and analyses by economic researchers, including the outlook of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, since 2001. Last year, the government’s goal was to avoid recession and bring inflation down to single…