A new research centre on household finance shows the potential of the Visegrad Fund’s approach
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The Visegrad Fund is not a major research funder, but its grants can have a catalytic effect for projects that bring together academics in the four participating countries: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary.
This has been the experience of Zsuzsa R. Huszar, an associate professor in the Finance Institute at Corvinus University of Budapest. Two years ago, after three decades working as a researcher in the US and Singapore, she returned to her native Hungary and quickly found that her specialism, household finance, was not a priority for the country’s research community.
Thinking this was short-sighted, Huszar decided to set up a research centre for household finance. She started to contact researchers in the field across central Europe and quickly found support. To put this interest into action, she applied for a capacity-building grant from the Visegrad Fund for regional cooperation.
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