Researchers’ Night 2014
On the 26th of September Universities, Research Institutes and laboratories are open for the public, as they were on every last Friday of September, since 2005. The main objective of “FAWORIT 2014-2015” is to overcome the prevailing stereotypes about researchers and...
HETFA together with the Károli Gáspár University launched a joint postgraduate degree program
The Office for Education registered the European Union program-planning and evaluation specialist postgraduate degree program on the 30th of January 2014 launched at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. The development of the program was initiated by...
The Creative Industry as a Resource – The Analysis of the Creative Industry by HETFA
In 2014, the Design Terminal National Creative Industrial Centre commissioned a comprehensive research done by HETFA about the Hungarian creative industry. During the research, we relied on interviews, expert consultations, literature review and also the statistical...
Reports of the Expert Evaluation Network approved and published by the Commission
The Director of HÉTFA, Gábor Balás works in the Expert Evaluation Network for several years now, the entity delegated by the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission. The objective of this network of experts is to synthesise evidence on the...
Contracting for Structural Funds
HETFA Working Paper No. 8. Károly Mike - Gábor Balás: Contracting for Structural Funds - How the EU's Rules of the Game Shape the Behaviour of Member State Governments ISBN 978-963-89112-6-1; ISSN 2062-378X How do the rules of the game of EU cohesion policy shape the...
Social and Economic Impacts of the Creative Industry are under Assessment
The main goal of Design Terminál is to enhance the competitiveness of the Hungarian creative industry. The overall analysis being prepared by HÉTFA is supposed to support this aim by presenting the significance of creative industry, its role in the national economy,...
Does Subsidized Childcare Matter for Maternal Labour Supply?
Anna Lovász – Ágnes Szabó-Morvai (2013): Does Childcare Matter for Maternal Labor Supply? A modified Regression Discontinuity Analysis The research, funded by the National Scientific Research Fund, implemented by HETFA Research Institute and the Institute of...
Parametric Pension Reforms and Life-cycle Labour Supply
Major, Klára - Varga, Gergely (2013): Parametric reforms and life-cycle labour supply. Economic Review [Közgazdasági Szemle, Közgazdasági Szemle LX. évf., 2013. november (1169—1207. o.).] Financing the social-security pension system will weigh heavily on the...
Competitiveness Presumes a Reinforced Cooperation
’The basic requirement of competitiveness is the reinforcement of cooperation, whereas corruption is a general contractual failure’ argues Károly Mike, senior research fellow of HETFA, in his interview given to the Financial Review Online [Pénzügyi Szemle Online]....
Impact of Academic Research on GDP Growth
As it is shown in the economic growth literature, the return of resources invested in research is expected to contribute to the higher growth rate of potential income of the economy. This paper examines this relation in case of Hungary based on data from the period...