Guns or Butter? 6th Budapest Public Finance Seminar
6th Budapest Public Finance Seminar: Guns or Butter – fiscal and welfare effects of arms race in 2020s
Conference,
Co-organizers:
Hungarian Ministry of Finance
Hungarian Economic Association, Public Finance Section
Hungarian Economic Association, Finance Section
date: 16 May 2024 (Thursday) 9:30-16:00
venue: Ludovika University of Public Service, Ludovika Main Building, Chapel (Szt. László kápolna) (1082. Budapest, Ludovika tér 2.)
ONLY IN PRESENCE (no online broadcast)
Participation is free, but please, register.
registration: https://ludevent.uni-nke.hu/event/3954/
Program:
9.30-9.40 Opening speech by the Vice-Rector
9.40-9.50 Welcome Speech by Vice-Dean of Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies
9.50-10.20 Keynote speech: Gábor Szőcs, deputy state secretary of Ministry of Finance: The impact of arms race on the Hungarian budget and welfare spending
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11h-12h Speaker Session I.
Ourania Dimitraki (Bedfordshire University, UK) Does Military Spending Crowd Out Social Welfare Expenditures?
Jakub Odehnal (University of Defence, Brno) Taxing butter and buying guns
chair: Viktória Vásáry (Ludovika University of Public Service)
12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13h-14h Speaker Session II.
Grzegorz Waszkiewicz (Faculty of Security, Logistics and Management, Military University of Technology,): Fiscal Dilemmas in the Time of Insecurity Threat. The Case of Poland
Gábor Kutasi (Ludovika University of Public Service): Fiscal preparedness for war in Europe
Ádám Marton (Ludovika University of Public Service): Russo-Ukranian war and welfare trade-off in EU countries
chair: Arnold Tóth (Ludovika University of Public Service)
14.00-14.20 Coffee break
14.20-16h Roundtable – The welfare trade-off of the Russo-Ukrainian war
discussants: Jakub Odehnal, Ourania Dimitraki, Grzegorz Waszkiewicz
chair: Gábor Kutasi
Information about the past events:
https://rice.uni-nke.hu/conferences/5th-budapest-public-finance-seminar-2023
https://conference.tcs.allamkincstar.gov.hu/en/budapest-public-finance-seminar/past-events.html
