CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Molnár, Boglárka |
|---|---|
| Title | ASSESSING RECENT ECONOMIC POLICY CHANGES IN THE HUNGARIAN RETAIL SECTOR |
| Summary | The thesis aims at investigating and reflecting on the competition concerns arising from recent (2010-2015) economic policy measures imposed in the Retail sector of Hungary, with a special focus on the law on Sunday closing. Besides a general overview of retail-specific competition concerns, the Hungarian retail sector and its regulatory developments are introduced, followed by an assessment of four specific policy measures of the retail sector. As no hard evidence is provided for the anticipated mechanisms, arguments should be interpreted as parts of an inductive analysis that gains relevance first and foremost from policy perspectives. The most important finding inferred from the investigated cases is that in contrast to the promoted regulatory aims, the protectionist policy approach taken by the Hungarian regulator in the period 2010-2015 may impose considerable indirect harm on consumers; and by undermining their competitiveness, to exert negative impacts on local producers as well. |
| Supervisor | Gergely Csorba |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/molnar_boglarka.pdf |
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