THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION SNAPSHOTS ON CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN
POLITY AND ECONOMY
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION SNAPSHOTS ON CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN
POLITY AND ECONOMY
Sponsored by a Grant TÁMOP-4.1.2-08/2/A/KMR-2009-0041 Course Material Developed by Department of Economics,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (ELTE) Department of Economics, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Balassi Kiadó, Budapest
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION SNAPSHOTS ON CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN
POLITY AND ECONOMY
Authors: Géza Törőcsik, Balázs Szepesi Supervised by Balázs Szepesi
June 2011
ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION SNAPSHOTS ON CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN
POLITY AND ECONOMY
Week 8
Regional perspective
Géza Törőcsik, Balázs Szepesi
Regional perspective
• This lecture will study
– What are the main unique and regional
specificities of Hungarian economy from static and dynamic perspective?
– What are the merits and constraints of data based international comparisons?
• The discussion will be based on the research of the participants. Material of international
organizations ((EU, OECD, World Bank, EBRD
etc.) and results of international benchmarking
studies (WEF, IMD, GEM etc.) will be used.
Regional perspective
• Main resources:
– EBRD BEEPS research –
http://www.ebrd.com/country/sector/econo/surveys/be eps.htm
– World Bank -Doing Business – http://www.doingbusiness.org/
– World Bank Governance matters –
http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp – IMD competitiveness scoreboard –
http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm – WEF competitiveness scoreboard: –
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20C ompetitiveness%20Report/index.htm
– GEM data – http://www.gemconsortium.org/