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A pénzügyi válságok elméleteinek áttekintése
143-160Views:291A pénzügyi válságok irodalma az 1980-as és 1990-es években óriási fejlődésnek indult. Ennek oka az, hogy a közgazdászok a gyakorlatban is használható modelleket és gyógymódokat szeretnének kifejleszteni a pénzügyi válságok ellen, melyek romboló hatása – az egyre globálisabbá váló pénz-és tőkepiacokon – folyamatosan nő. Az újabb elméletek egyre újabb tényezőket próbálnak a modellek kereteibe vonni, melynek oka lehet az, hogy a válságok környezete, a pénzpiacok is folyamatosan változnak. A szakirodalom ezt az állandóan bővülő elmélethalmazt három generációba sorolja. E dolgozat egyrészt rövid áttekintést nyújt a pénzügyi válságok terén ez idáig született legjelentősebb elméleti modellekről. Másrészt bemutatja, hogy e három modellcsalád sokkal inkább egymást kiegészítő, mintsem rivalizáló elméletcsokor, s hogy a második és harmadik generációs elméletcsalád közötti határ sokkal kevésbé éles, mint az első és a második generációs modellek közötti választóvonal.
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The Development of Growth Accounting Techniques in the Mirror of Economic Growth
85-103Views:160In this article we present the development of certain growth theories that model the main sources of growth. Since the elasticity of substitution – one of the most important parameters of production function – is not unity, as the Cobb-Douglas production function assumes, it can be different from a value of 1; hence we need a more general CES-type (Constant Elasticity of Substitution) production function. Another important question is the classification of factors of production. The elasticity of substitution is an efficiency factor as well, thus it receives special attention in the analysis. Finally we summarize the main papers that are mainly concerned with growth accounting, and try to answer the question of which factors play a significant or less significant role in economic growth. Growth accounting is strongly connected to growth theories so we refer back to growth theory at certain points.
JEL classification: E13, O47
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Interdependence between government redistribution and economic growth in the long run
132-146Views:174The present paper aims to study changes in the degree of government redistribution with an institutional, historical, statistical and model-like approach. I investigate the impact of changes in redistribution on long-term economic growth in 30 European countries. It is generally stated that government spending/GDP ratio has been continuously increasing (in terms of trend) in Europe since the 1870s. I examine how the size of the states affects economic growth, and what other factors influence the long-run relationship between these two variables. My hypothesis is that in developed countries with high government
redistribution it has been an impediment to economic growth in the long run. Finally, I illustrate this hypothesis with a statistical analysis of 30 European countries.Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification: E66, H62, C10
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Neumann's model and the cycles
14-19Views:117Neuman has created his model to verify the theoretical existence of balance. The assumptions of the model give an explanation to the existence of the cycles. They derive from two peculiarities of the model, which Neumann concludes from the operation of the market. The first peculiarity is that balance comes about in the so-called saddlepoint. It is characterized by maximum production and minimum profit. The second is crossregulation, where excess profit stimulates growth, whereas oversupply decreases prices.
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Just-in-Time system in terms of real options
Views:138The value creation process in a company and the competitive position are critically influenced by corporate resource allocation and proper valuation of investment alternatives. After the Second World War, capital budgeting and strategic planning emerged as two complementary but different systems for resource allocation. The real options approach developed in the ’80s may provide a useful tool for making a connection between capital budgeting and strategic management. Real options are implicit managerial and operating flexibilities embedded in many non-financial assets and liabilities. In a wider sense: “A real option is the investment in physical assets, human competence, and organisational capabilities that provide the opportunity to respond to future contingent events” (Kogut-Kulatilaka, 2001). This paper shows that Just-in-Time (JIT) system as management philosophy can be regarded as a knowledge-based or capability-based implicit strategy rather than a simple, easy-toimitate best practice approach. Moreover, implementation of JIT can be considered as a strategic investment. The presentation focuses on how the relation among strategic investments, developed technological systems and corporate strategy can be expressed through the real options view.
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Globalizáció és jóléti állam: azonos kihívás – eltérő válaszok
165-182Views:187A szakirodalom nagy része által elfogadott tény, hogy a globalizáció hatással van a jóléti államra. A kormányok kettős szorítással szembesülnek, megnőttek ugyanis a kiadások iránti igények, ugyanakkor a bevételi források lecsökkentek. A globalizáció által kiváltott azonos kihívásra a jóléti államok eltérő válaszokat adtak. A tanulmány célja elsősorban két lehetséges irány leíró jellegű bemutatása Svédország és
Franciaország példáján keresztül. Míg a svéd jóléti rendszeren radikális átalakításokat hajtottak végre, amelyek javították is az ország teljesítményét, addig Franciaországban nem következett be alapvető változás, csupán kisebb reformokat vezettek be.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kódok: E62, H50, H60, I38, P52 -
The suspicion of Dutch Disease in Russia
103-124Views:192The main statement of the paper is the suspicion that Russia carries the symptoms of Dutch disease. The main justifications behind it are the appreciation of real exchange rates, the deterioration of the performance of the manufacturing sector and the improvement of service sector results. However it is difficult to prove the determining factors behind these processes, so the conclusion that Russia has this ailment has to be treated with caution. As the Dutch disease is only one of the determining factors of the resource curse hypothesis, in the case of Russia other relevant aspects may also play a significant role, such as, inter alia, continuous and considerable corruption, the weaknesse of democratic political system, a protectionist economic policy and a low level of competition, especially in the energy sectors. All of the reasons behind the paradox of the plenty type resource curse phenomenon, and among them the Dutch disease, can jeopardise long-run growth sustainability.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: F31, L60, L72, Q32, Q33
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The question of duality in post-transition economic development
71-90Views:199One of the main questions of the FDI-based economic development model is how the local embeddedness of technologically advanced, globally operating multinational firms can be increased. The global economic integration of smaller, locally owned firms could be enhanced by the stimulating spillover effects stemming from multinationals. However, if the two main sectors of the economy function in isolation from each-other, stimulation effects cannot appear. This paper studies the features and extent of structural duality in Hungary, and the preconditions for deepening economic ties between the two sectors and
of the utilization of positive externalities stemming from the presence of large multinational firms.JEL classification: F23, L53
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The Concept of Innovative Fiscal Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Views:146This contribution addresses the question of what are the main constituents of an innovative fiscal policy in the context of sustainability. We apply the concept of sustaining and disruptive innovation to fiscal policy. On the one hand, innovative fiscal policy is able to be sustaining whereby public finance will incrementally improve without leaving its decisive structure. On the other hand, innovative fiscal policy should be disruptive as well in the context of long term sustainability, whereby the structure of public finances can be profoundly restructured as a reaction to future challenges. By using the Finnish recovery in the early 1990s, we can refine our argument about the use and necessity of the mixture of fiscal rules and independent institutions in favour of fiscal sustainability. We also shed light on the key sources of the expansionary consolidation that emerged in the aftermath of the fiscal adjustment in the early 1990s. We emphasise that innovative fiscal policy with a mixture of legislated fiscal rules and independent fiscal anchor is more likely to be associated with sustainability if the economy has weaker growth potential which does not provide enough social trust towards the consolidation efforts of the government.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: E61, E62, Q01
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On the Global Expansion of Venture Capital
60-69Views:139The venture capital industry has also been negatively affected worldwide by the financial crisis of 2008, thus the usual investment conditions have changed. One aim of the study is to provide an overview of the changes. As shown in the global trends, the level of the global annual venture capital investments in 2013 just reached the level of before 2008. Although in some Asian countries (China and India) the decline was not significant, unlike in the European countries. Another aim of the study is to examine whether there is a reality of an integrated global venture capital model, or it is different in each country. If there is a difference, then what kind of explanatory factors can be tracked back. On the basis of extensive international literature the article argues that there are a number of factors such as the characteristics of financial systems, the legal and institutional barriers and the culture that affect the emergence of an integrated venture capital model.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes: G24
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The role of the institutional system in the globalizing finance of culture
131-148Views:99The article focuses on how the connection between the institutional system of a country and the role of the state changes in the financing of the cultural sphere. To examine the changes, the author analysis the financing model of the USA and the Russian Federation, countries which use very different methods and techniques for the financing of the cultural sphere. The author assumes in his hypothesis that in those countries which have an underdeveloped institutional system, the possibility of direct state support and control for the financing of the cultural sphere is much greater. The results of the analyses are tested on the cultural economy of the Netherlands where the cultural financing system exhibits characteristics of both the American and the Russian models at the same time.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: P14, P39, Z10, Z11
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The formation and development of employment law in the context of socio-economic processes
63-88Views:418The study explores the formation and development of the institutional system of employment law, in connection with socio-economic demands and economic, technical and technological developments. It demonstrates what factors play a role in the fact that the vast majority of companies, and the paternalistic working relationships that form within them, have been replaced by the patterns of big business and big business hierarchical culture. The study shows how the characteristic employment law framework of classical capitalism, which was emplyer-friendly and placed anti-social pressure on the interests of the employee, gave way to the philosophy of the social market and was influenced by the employee-friendly concepts of the welfare state. The article further analyses those social factors which in today's employment law system have once again started to subordinate the interests of the employee to those of the employer.
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Kilépések politikája : Hogy válnak meg a kockázati tőkések a befektetéseiktől?
83-98Views:206A tanulmány két részre tagolódik. Az első fejezetekben a szerző bemutatja a kockázatitőke-befektetésekből történő kilépések stratégiai jelentőségét, a kilépések módját és idejét befolyásoló tényezőket és a sikeres kiszállásokat elősegítő tevékenységeket. A tanulmány arra keresi a választ, hogy mik az egyes módozatok előnyei és hátrányai a tulajdonosok, a menedzserek és az adott cég számára. A második rész az exitek számának és értékének változásait tárja fel a 2000-től kezdődő időszakban Európában, hangsúlyt fektetve a közép-kelet-európai tendenciákra, külön kiemelve a magyarországi változásokat.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: G24, G32
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Business Ethics and Ethics Education in American Business Programs
195-200Views:116This essay presents an overview of what American business programs cover in their curricula regarding ethics and the reasons behind teaching ethics-related material to business students. Topics for the paper
include; requirements for having ethics in the curricula, broad perspectives of what constitutes ethical business practices, and the difference between professional ethics and business ethics.Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: M14, A20
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A reklámberuházások versenyre gyakorolt hatásának és gazdasági növekedéssel való összefüggéseinek vizsgálata
Views:128The amount of advertising investments is increasing dynamically worldwide, but returns are decreasing significantly. This is largely the consequence of growing market competition. In connection with this I analyze the role of advertising and the effect of advertising on demand and competition, then I study the relation between advertising and economic growth in this paper. I have conducted a survey among European countries to scrutinize the relation between advertising expenditures. My other assumption had to be rejected as a positive relation does not exist between GDP per capita and advertising investment rate.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: D21, E01, M21, M37
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The question of the efficiency of financial transactions: the German example
13-24Views:103Egy többdimenziós célrendszerben a hatékonyság a különböző komplementáris vagy konkuráló célok
függvényében határozható meg. A német újraegyesülés gazdasági következményeinek példája azt mutatja,
hogy a keleti tartományoknak juttatott masszív pénzügyi transzferek politikai szempontból elkerülhetetlenek
voltak ugyan, hosszabb távon azonban jelentősen gyengítették az össznémet gazdaság teljesítőképességét. -
Twenty-one Economic Arguments against an Unconditional Basic Income
5-29Views:383In 2013/14 there has been an intense public debate both in the European Union and in Hungary on the feasibility of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) support. In the Hungarian context, the publication of a 100-page proposal was an important milestone, in which a group of experts applied the UBI concept to the present circumstances. The study, the brainchild of István Bánfalvi, a distinguished social policy practitioner, proposed the following specific amounts as from January 2015: HUF 25,000 for children (≈ EUR 83), HUF 50,000 for adults and HUF 75,000 for expectant mothers. The present paper’s first objective was to challenge the entire 25-50-75 concept from both theoretical and practical-administrative perspectives. In addition, we tried to show that income poverty in Hungary is much less of a problem than generally presumed. Our final conclusion is that from a poverty alleviation point of view the geographical remobilization of the Hungarian Roma population is by far the most important issue. Roma living in small rural settlements should be assisted to move towards large cities, where the chances of finding work, education and health care are much better.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: H21, I38, J15