Dear Students,

Here you can find all the necessary documents for absolving the International Economy and Business MA Program.

Documents for earlier academic years

During the final exam, first you will defend your thesis work. Moreover, you are going to get at least one professional question, which will be linked to your studies, might be linked to your thesis topic. You can prepare a presentation (ppt) or handout to your thesis defence, but please print it in 4 copies since you won’t have the opportunity to use a computer for your presentation.

Almadi Sejla

– International Economy and Trade, Competitiveness

– Management and marketing strategies at international corporations

– Behavioral economics, structural behavioral, corporate psychology

Benczes István

– Reforms of European Economic Governance

– Fiscal policy in the EU

– Integration theories

– Introduction of Euro in Hungary

Endrődi-Kovács Viktória

– Western Balkan, Economics of Western-Balkan countries

– Integration Maturity

– FDI – multinational corporations, investments, investment decisions

– Global value chains, embeddedness of the V4 countries

Gál Péter

– Strategy of Transnational Corporations

– Foreign Direct Investments

– Macroeconomic consequences of globalisation (national and international economic policies, development policies, international corporate and financial chains)

– Territorial disparities, spread and backwash effects, core-hinterland relations

– Economics of heritage

– Product branding, consumer behavior

– Varieties of capitalism

Magas István

– Global financial processes and regulations

– World economic crisis interpretations, crisis management

– Conditions for the introduction of Euro in Hungary

– BREXIT and its consequences for Europe

– Customs War

Miklós Gábor

– The effects of the economic crisis in the Central European region

– Integration maturity of CEE countries

– Advantages and disadvantages of Central European economies (macroeconomic analysis)

– Autonomy analyses from an economic and political perspective

– The political and economic benefits of minorities

– Challenges for the European labor market

– Labor shortage in Hungary and Central Europe

– The situation of the Hungarian and Central European construction industry

Nagy Sándor Gyula

– Economic and political issues in Latin America and Spain

– International and / or domestic use of European Union grants (Structural Funds)

– EU energy policy

– Supplier and industrial development processes

Palánkai Tibor

– Theory of regional and global integration

– European integration policies

– European integration performance balance

– Integration maturity

Ricz Judit

– Development economics

– Developing and emerging countries

– The political economy of development (especially the study of Latin America)

– Developing countries (in East Asia and beyond)

– Variations of Capitalism

Simai Mihály

– Global economic governance and national economic policies

New relations between world production and international trade policy

National and international regulation of transnational corporations: goals and results

Commodity markets in the international trading system

Agriculture / industry or services /, in the system of international economic relations

– Global challenges and multilateral cooperation.

New global program for sustainable development and national economies / adopted in 2015 /

Alternative topics: developed world, developing countries, Hungary.

Or sustainability goals in any field or national economic policies.

– Risk factors in the global economy, risk management at corporate, state and global levels

Szent-Iványi Balázs (max 2 persons, professor is abroad and available only by email or Skype)

– International development and aid, development economics

Tétényi András

– International development grants

– Sustainable development goals

– Elements of growth and sustainability

– The effects of international migration

Vigvári Gábor

– Current issues in international trade

– Globalization, institutions, nation state

– Political economic issues of international cooperation

– EU political economy

Burucs Judit

– Developments of access to financing in developing countries over the past decade

– The future of financial risk management in the banking sector

– Changes in the liquidity risk management practices of banks in a selected country

– Changing household saving habits in developing countries over the last decade

– The impact of Basel III on the Russian banking sector

– Impact of Central and Eastern European subsidiaries on the profitability of a banking group

Szunomár Ágnes

– Economies of East Asia

– Foreign direct investment

– Emerging markets, emerging multinationals corporations

– Challenges of (economic) development

– Middle income trap

Stukovszky Tamás

– The role of innovation in mitigating the effects of crises

– Paradigm shift in long-term cooperation between multinational companies and the state in Hungary

– The growing importance of the sport within the national economy in Hungary and abroad

– Janus-faced China, or the two-faced Chinese economic growth vision

– The key role of the automotive industry in the structure of the domestic economy – a blessing or a curse?

– Economic effects of the Estonian digital state and public administration

– SME development in the 2020s in Hungary and the EU

Hámori Balázs

– New developments in the Behavioral Economics

– How have economic decisions been influenced by human emotions

– Comparison of economic system variants in the light of the economic crisis

– The role of the institutions in running the economy

– Information/Knowledge Economy

Ádám Zoltán

– The comparative political economy of authoritarian populism and liberal democracy

– Democracy and Institutional Development in Central and Eastern Europe after the 1989-1990 Regime Changes in a Political-Economic Approach

Cossu Elena

– Measuring the effectiveness of economic policies of developed countries

Mátyás Máté

– Changes in Civil Societies and their Political Economic Consequences

– Changes in Media Systems and their Political Economic Consequences

Medve-Bálint Gergő

– Regional development, territorial inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe

– Growth regimes in Central and Eastern Europe

– Industrial policy in case of the Eastern and Southern EU Member States

– FDI, investment incentives, state aid in the EU

– EU cohesion policy