Research Interests

political economy of East Central Europe, European integration, transnationalization and Europeanization, regional development and regional disparities, industrial policy, state aid, cohesion policy

Selected Publications

Ban, Cornel, Medve-Bálint Gergő, és Clara Volintiru. 2025. ‘The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities’. Competition and Change.

Medve-Bálint, Gergő. 2024. ‘From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe’. Studies in Comparative International Development 59: 740-766. 

Medve-Bálint, Gergő, és Éltető Andrea. 2024. ‘Economic Nationalists, Regional Investment Aid, and the Stability of FDI-Led Growth in East Central Europe’. Journal of European Public Policy 31(3):874–99.

Medve-Bálint, Gergő, és Jakub Szabó. 2024. ‘The “EU‐Leash”: Growth Model Resilience and Change in the EU’s Eastern Periphery’. Politics and Governance 12(1):1–18.

Bíró-Nagy, András, és Medve-Bálint Gergő, szerk. 2024. 20 év az Európai Unióban. Magyarország uniós tagságának közpolitikai mérlege. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó.

Medve-Bálint, Gergő, és Vera Šćepanović. 2020. ‘EU Funds, State Capacity and the Development of Transnational Industrial Policies in Europe’s Eastern Periphery’. Review of International Political Economy 27(5):1063–82.

Medve-Bálint, Gergő. 2014. ‘The Role of the EU in Shaping FDI Flows to East Central Europe’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 52(1):35–51.

Research Projects

2023-2026 – Democracy and growth regimes in Central and Southern Europe (Bolyai Research Scholarship)

2022-2025 – 20 years in the European Union: a public policy assessment of Hungary's EU membership (NKFIH FK143022) – contributing researcher

2020-2024 – Transnational industrial policy in the EU’s periphery: the use of state aid and EU funds in Southern and Eastern Europe (NKFIH FK135342) – Principal Investigator

2020-2022 – Industrial policy on the periphery of the European Union (Bolyai Research Scholarship)

2017-2020 – Regional development capacities on the periphery of Europe: managing foreign investment and EU funds in Eastern and Southern Europe (MTA Premium Postdoctoral Scholarship, PPD-028/2017) – Principal Investigator

2015-2016 – Maximizing the Integration Capacity of the European Union (MAXCAP, FP7) – contributing researcher

2012-2015 – New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy (FIDUCIA, FP7) – contributing researcher

2012-2015 – Institutional trust and public policy effectiveness in Hungary (OTKA K101701) – contributing researcher