On the occassion of the first anniversary of Hungary's EU accession, our survey in the SME Outlook - second in a row - focused on the business conjecture and also dealt with the effects of EU accession on the lives of the enterprises. We paid special attention to the new foreign trade opportunities and the realignment of market conditions, and similarly to the national and European institutional characteristics that affected the business climate.

The IEER Business Climate and Conjuncture Survey from April 2004 asked 1461 enterprises about the effects of central bank base rate on the enterprises demand for loans and investment activity. We intended to measure how much influence had the central bank base rate – that stayed at 12.25% before we started our survey – on short- and long-term borrowings of enterprises and on their investment activities.

In this research - as a continuation of a previous survey at IEER – we analysed the usage of information technology and internet of Hungarian enterprises.

Competition, regulation and the effects of EU accession in the market of services

This joint research ofthe Institute of Economic and Enterprise Research and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry aimed to contribute to the determination of the Hungarian position on the EU directive on internal market of services.

Commercial companies at the threshold of the European Union. Results of an empirical survey

In this research, the Institute of Economic and Enterprise Research - in cooperation with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - focused on the actual business situation, on the anticipations for the near future and on the factors affecting business behaviour of enterprises from the commercial sector.

Determinants of competitiveness in the manufacturing industry. Results of an empirical study.

Our aim is to give a systematic analysis on the factors influencing the behaviour of Hungarian enterprises.

The aim of this study is to gather information on the theory, practice and different opinions of professionals about the simplified entepreneurial tax, a form of taxation in Hungary from January 1, 2003.

The aim of the research is to visualise and analyse trends in the economic development of Northern Hungary and to give an explanatory view on the actual economic situation of the region.

It has been the third year that the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research conducted a research about the effects of the widening of the exchange rate fluctuation range on the profitability based the answers of 500 export-oriented companies. As in 2001, 383 companies were willing to fill out our survey, and one year later 256 companies did so again, we asked them for the third time in 2003 as well. This time, 196 executive personel declared their opinions. Our study is based on their answers.

Our study has two objectives: on the one hand it gathers information on why the enterprises were willing to raise wages in 2002 despite the decreasing tendencies of the international conjuncture and the strengthening forint; on the other hand it gives a prognosis on the wage increase intentions for this year.