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3 of June, 2016Research
Results of the IEER Business Climate Survey – April 2016

Regarding the new results of the IEER Business Climate Index (the survey is based on the answers of 3187 enterprises) further positive changes can be expected. The IEER Business Climate Index rose to +49 points in April 2016 from +45 points in October 2015. The value of the Uncertainty Index has not changed since the last survey (October 2015).

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1 of June, 2016Research
Integrity and corruption risks within the Hungarian corporate sector – 2015

In the summer of 2015, EY and IEER conducted their fifth joint research on integrity and corruption at the Hungarian companies. The focus of the research was to investigate corporate measures against corrupt behavior and misuse of information or position, the penetration of corruption, and to have Hungarian corporate leaders’ opinion on corruption and their expected behavior about the subject. Our interviewers conducted personal interviews with owners and top management members of companies employing at least 50 people. The survey is based upon 305 interviews and can be considered representative concerning employment and ratio in the economic sectors. The research analyses the rule of law and the regulatory environment including the relationship with the government, the role of personal connections with state officials and the opinion of the managers on the recent governmental measures against corruption. In the second part of the paper we investigate the corporate governance and corporate rules against fraud and corruption such as ethical codes, ethics hotline, and handling of ethical misconduct. In the third part corruption risks are investigated considering corporate leaders’ perception of corruption and, with an experimental approach, their answers for hypothetical situations involving corruption are studied. Finally the research also examines the measures of risk management and the data security applied by companies.

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31 of May, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

The business climate survey of the HCCI Research Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship (IEER), which is the largest business climate assessment of its kind in Hungary, covering most companies, took place for the thirty-seventh time in April 2016. In the following, we present the main results.

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31 of May, 2016Research
Vocational School Research Program – 2016

The research program "Vocational schools" by IEER conducted since 2008 includes two main parts. The aim of the company survey is to map the demand of specific segments in the business sector for vocational school graduates within one year and beyond a three-year time span.
The survey on graduates examines the beginning of the working life of those young people who obtained their qualifications in vocational schools or trade schools 19 months before. The research has a focus point on whether these young people were able or willing to enter the labour market during the 19 months after their graduation.

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26 of May, 2016Research
Results of the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Survey - April 2016

The results of the latest quarterly business climate survey reveal slightly more favourable economic condition compared to the previous quarter: the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Index increased from 32 to 33 points, which is the highest value in the history of the indicator. It was only 24 points in the same period of the previous year. The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 35 points, which is slightly lower than in the previous quarter (it was 37 points in January 2016). The value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that it will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all companies.

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30 of April, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In our analysis, we examine how domestic small and medium-sized business owners and managers rate the effectiveness and quality of service of some public authorities and institutions. The analysis is based on four waves of the IEER SME Perspectives study (October 2010, July 2014, July 2015, and January 2016), in which we examined the assessments of 1,207 respondents.

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31 of March, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

Family-friendly benefits in Hungarian corporate practice

In the coordination of family and work family-friendly labor market policiessuch as different types of flexible (atypical) employment, have a major role. Survey data of the joint "short-term labor market forecast" research in 2013 and 2014 conducted by the National Labor Office (NLO) and the HCCI Institute of Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) shows which family-friendly benefits were preferably applied by Hungarian companies and what are the leading company types in the family-friendly attitudes.

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29 of February, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In the autumn of 2015 IEER conducted a survey for its short-term labor market research, and within this framework we asked the companies contacted on issues related to public workers. Most companies have not been in contact with public works labourers or public works programs. Most of those that have, evaluated the impact on their business situation negatively. More claim that they would employ former public workers than those who actually did in 2015, which may indicate an improper functioning of the labor market.

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15 of February, 2016Research
Results of the IEER SME Outlook Survey January 2016

The results of the latest IEER SME Outlook business climate survey reveal more favourable economic conditions compared to the previous quarter: the Business Climate Index increased from 20 to 25 points, which is the highest value since the beginning of the research (January 2005). This value is far higher than the one in January 2015 (16 points). The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 37 points, which is almost the same as the value measured in the preceding quarter (it was 38 points in October 2015). The value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that it will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all small and medium sized companies.

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8 of February, 2016Research
Results of the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Survey, January 2016

The results of the latest quarterly business climate survey reveal considerably more favourable economic condition compared to the previous quarter: the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Index increased from 24 to 32 points, which is the highest value in the history of the indicator. It was only 19 points in the same period of the previous year. The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 37 points, which is slightly lower than in the previous quarter (it was 38 points in October 2015). The value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that it will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all companies.

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