About my research
Imre Fertő is a general director at the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary and serves as a Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest and the Czech University of Life Sciences. Holding PhD degrees from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, his research focuses on price transmission, local food systems, technical efficiency in agriculture and agricultural policy. His contributions have earned him multiple prestigious honours, including the Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2022) and the Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Research (Agricultural Economics Society, 2023).
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- How close do Europeans live to farmland, and why does it matter for rural areas?
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- How Price Controls Affected Pork Prices in Hungary: Evidence from 2017 to 2023
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- How Economic Growth and Globalization Affect Sustainable Development Goals
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- From Vodka to Craft Beer: How the Baltics Transformed Their Alcohol Culture
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- Gender Inequalities and Sustainability: Agri-Environmental Practices in Hungarian Farms"
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- How Monetary Policy Affects Food Inflation in Hungary: Insights from 2007 to 2023
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- Resilience of Wheat Prices in Hungary to Market Shocks and External Influences
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- What Motivates People to Buy Local Food? Understanding Consumer Engagement in Food-Buying Clubs
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- Exploring Green Innovations in the Hungarian Wine Industry
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- Which shows bigger differences between Hungarian and Polish poultry farms: technology or efficiency?
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- How to win the first Olympic medal?
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- The craft beer scene in Budapest
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- Why do big farms keep going in Central and Eastern Europe?
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- Exploring Monetary Policy’s Role in Food Price Dynamics: Evidence from Hungary
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- Are Organic Farms Less Efficient?
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- Empowering women in sustainable agriculture
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- Ground-Level Impacts of Management Transfer to Poor Farmers in Developing Countries
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- The effect of agri-environmental scheme on the eco-efficiency
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- Why Farmers Join Agri-Environmental Schemes in the EU: Insights from a Literature Review
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- Income inequality in the Hungarian wine sector
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- Irrigation management of small farms
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- The impact of subsidy on the farm employment
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- Investments and subsidies in agriculture
Article - The impact of ecologisation on the farm productivity
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- Smaller farms are growing faster than larger ones
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- Impacts of subsidies on the efficiency
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- Spatial changes in the cattle sector
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- Little evidence that host countries win more Olympic medals
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- Wellbeing of famers
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- Location of microbreweries
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- Trade in Value Added data in gravity models
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- What drives family farm growth
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- Regional trade agreements and global maize exports
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- Do Subsidies Decrease the Farm Income Inequality?
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- Duration of Olympic success
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- Psychological profiles of consumer groups during Covid
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- The socioeconomic impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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- The smallholder puzzle
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- Circular Economy and Waste Management in Developing Countries:
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- Impact of subsidies on farm employment
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- Survival strategies of farmers during the Covid
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- Spatial Transformation in the Pig Sector
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- Technological Heterogeneity in Pig Farming
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- Szomszédsági hatások a világ kukorica piacán 1996 és 2015 között
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- Hozzájárul-e a helyi élelmiszer vásárlás a helyi gazdaság fejlődéséhez? Egy szisztematikus irodalmi áttekintés
- Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers during Covid
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- The role of network in European dairy exports
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- Human capital may help the farm growth
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- The agri-food exports of Central and Eastern European countries
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- Dairy farms investment behaviour
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- Productivity growth in Global Agriculture
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- The Impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 on Small-scale Producers
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- Farmers' engagement in irrigation management
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- The impact of climate change on agriculture
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- The influence of the members of the Agricultural Committee of the European Parliament
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- Does economic growth influence forestry trends?
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- Multiplier effects of local food
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- THe effects of subsidies on the components total factor productivity
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- Analysis of the relationship between farm size and the growth of farms.
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- How Agricultural Policy Affects Farm Income Inequality: Insights from Slovenia
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- The role of technological differences in farm efficiency.
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- Do Smaller Farms Grow Faster? Testing Gibrat’s Law for Slovenian Farms and Farm Size Growth Patterns
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- How Farmers’ Participation in Irrigation Management Affects Productivity and Profitability in Uganda
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- Spatial clusters in the pork sector.
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- Measuring foreing direct investment
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- Agricultural soft budget constraint
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- Milk Prices and Trade in Europe: How Spatial Price Transmission Affects the Dairy Market
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- The impacts of Rural Development Programs in Hungary
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- The impact of subsidies on farm income in Hungary and Slocenia
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- The performance of EU agri-food exports.
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- Global agri-food trade gross and value added exports
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- Farm income risk in Slovenia
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- Impacts of climate on technical efficiency in the Hungarian arable sector
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- Drivers of the duration of comparative advantage in the European Union’s agri-food exports
- Impact of European Union development subsidies on Hungarian regions
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- Economic Crisis And the Fragility of World Wine Export
- The Emergence and Survival of Microbreweries in Hungary
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- THE ROLE OF FOOD CRISIS AND TRADE COSTS IN THE HUNGARIAN MAIZE EXPORTS
- Are farms in less favored areas less efficient?
- Globalization and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
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- Off to market: but which one? Understanding the participation of small-scale farmers in short food supply chains—a Hungarian case study
- Intra-European Union trade of dairy products: insights from network analysis
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- Network analysis of the EU dairy trade
- The duration of global agri-food export competitiveness
- Short communication: East-West European farm investment behaviour - The role of financial constraints and public support
- Demand for Farm Insurance Under Financial Constraints
- Válság- és agglomerációs hatások a magyarországi sertéstartásban
- Innovation in the Hungarian food economy
- EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES ON INCOME RISK IN LITHUANIAN DAIRY FARMS
- Quality Upgrades of EU Agri-Food Exports
- Structural Transformation in Central and Eastern European Countries' Agriculture: Convergence or Divergence?
- Intra-industry trade in the wine sector in the enlarged European Union
- Export competitiveness of the European Union in fruit and vegetable products in the global markets
- Borderless ideas – open innovation in the Hungarian food chain
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- Empirical tests of sale theories: Hungarian milk prices
- Productivity and Convergence in European Agriculture
- Hungary
- Intra-industry Trade in the Beer Industry within the Enlarged European Union
- Spatial changes of the pig population in Hungary
- The Structural Transformation in Central and Eastern European Agriculture
- Horizontal intra-industry trade in agri-food products in the enlarged European Union
- Are new EU member states catching up with older ones on global agri-food markets?
- Az európai uniós támogatások hatása a kistérségek helyzetére
- Heterogeneous technology, scale of land use and technical efficiency: The case of Hungarian crop farms
- Drivers of vertical intra-industry trade: the case of the Hungarian agri-food sector
- Agri-Food Export Competitiveness in European Union Countries
- Socio-Economic Status and the Structural Change of Dietary Intake in Hungary
- Export competitiveness of dairy products on global markets: The case of the European Union countries
- Quality of institutions and the BRIC countries agro-food exports
- Spatial Product Market Integration between Two Small, Open Neighbouring Economies
- Agri-food exports from European Union Member States using constant market share analysis
- Determinants of technical efficiency in agriculture in new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe
- Forestry industry trade by degree of wood processing in the enlarged European Union countries
- Technical Efficiency and Determinants of Mobility Patterns in European Agriculture
- Farm size and growth in field crop and dairy farms in France, Hungary and Slovenia
- Does Market Structure Influence Price Transmission in the Agro-food Sector? A Meta-analysis Perspective
- Farm income sources, farm size and farm technical efficiency in Slovenia
- Contractual relationships in the Hungarian milk sector
- Identification of Market Power in the Hungarian Dairy Industry: A Plant-Level Analysis
- Environmental Pressures and Technical Efficiency of Pig Farms in Hungary
- Broadband availability and economic growth
- Price transmission in the milk sectors of Poland and Hungary
- Benefits of a marketing cooperative in transition agriculture: Mórakert purchasing and service co-operative
- Does EU Enlargement Increase Agro-Food Export Duration?
- Complementarities of trade advantage and trade competitiveness measures
- Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
- Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany
- Is there a consensus among Hungarian agricultural economists?
- Information and communication infrastructure development and agro-food trade
- Innovation and output in OECD countries: implications upon emerging economies
- A közép-kelet-európai országok agrár-külkereskedelmi integrációja az Európai Unióba: mit mondanak nekünk a nemzetközi kereskedelemelmélet előrejelzései és az empirikus vizsgálatok?
- Marginal intra‐industry trade and adjustment costs in the first phase of transition
- The impact of EU accession on farms' technical efficiency in Hungary
- Internet and international food industry trade
- Southeastern European Agrofood Trade Specialization
- Internet and international food industry trade
- Estimating Oligopsony Power in the Hungarian Market for Slaughter Hogs
- Treating trade statistics inaccuracies: the case of intra-industry trade
- How can producers access the modern agri-food chain? A Central and Eastern European perspective.
- Marketing Margins and Price Transmission in a Transition Country - The Case of the Hungarian Pork Market Les marges commerciales et la transmission des prix dans un pays en transition - le cas du marché de la viande de porc en Hongrie Handelsspannen und P
- The growth of family farms in Hungary
- Agro-food trade competitiveness of Central European and Balkan countries
- Labour Market Adjustment and Intra-Industry Trade: The Effects of Association on the Hungarian Food Industry
- Investment and financial constraints in Hungarian agriculture
- Determinants of agro-food trade competition of Central European countries with the European Union
- Marketing and Pricing Dynamics in the Presence of Structural Breaks: The Hungarian Pork Market
- Duration of trade of former communist countries in the EU market
- Organic farms in Hungary
- The institutional determinants of bilateral Agricultural and food trade
- European Enlargement and Agro-Food Trade
- A magyar agrárexport kereskedelmi előnyei és versenyképessége az EU piacán
- Mórakert CO-OP: A successful case of linking small farmers to markets of horticultural products in Hungary
- Trade Specialization in the European Union and in Postcommunist European Countries
- Dynamics of intra-industry trade and adjustment costs. The case of Hungarian food industry
- Price competition vs. quality competition: The role of one-way trade
- The evolution of agri-food trade patterns in Central European countries
- Agro-food trade sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe
- Intra-Industry Trade Between the Old EU and the NMS Before Enlargement
- Institutional Reforms and Evolution of Industry, Trade, Technology in the EU’s New Borderland
- The Catching-Up Process of European Enlargement: Hungarian and Slovenian Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Trade
- Intra-industry trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated agri-food products between Hungary and the EU
- Trade advantages and integration of Croatian, Hungarian and Slovenian agro-food trade with the European Union
- Marketing margins and price transmission on the Hungarian beef market
- A mezőgazdasági föld közgazdasági értékelése
- Az agrárpolitika hatása a föld árára
- Megnyilvánuló komparatív előnyök a magyar mezőgazdaságban: kaotikus vagy koherens szerkezet?
- Vertically Differentiated Trade and Differences in Factor Endowment: The Case of Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU
- Marketing margins and price transmission on the Hungarian pork meat market
- The Dynamics of Hungarian Agri-Food Trade Patterns in the EU
- A magyar agrárkereskedelem dinamikája a világpiacon
- Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Hungarian Agri–Food Sectors
- Intra-Industry Trade in Horizontally and Vertically Differentiated Agri-food Products Between Hungary and the EU
- Intra-Industry Trade in Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU
- A mezőgazdaság átalakulása Közép-Európában és az európai integráció
- A siker titka: A magánerős modernizáció (Soltvadkert)