Since 2009, stock markets have resided in a long bull market regime. Passive investment strategies have succeeded during this low-volatility growth period. From 2018 on, however, there was a transition into a more volatile market environment interspersed by corrections increasing in amplitude...

Household consumption constitutes two thirds of GDP in Hungary. Accordingly, in addition to influencing expected economic growth, consumption plays a prominent role in shaping pricing behaviour. Consequently, understanding and forecasting the consumption processes as precisely as possible can be...

Business surveys or conjuncture surveys are specific statiostical researches, but complementary to traditional, official statistics.While official statistics provide quantitive information regardin the level,structure and evolution of varied economic process and phenomena, business surveys offer...