This year’s Faculty Round of the Student Scientific and Professional Activity (ŠVOČ) once again confirmed that our faculty is home to exceptional students with strong research potential. Although several students registered for the competition in the winter semester, only five completed and submitted their work. However, the quality of their output clearly outweighed the quantity—demonstrating that ŠVOČ remains a space for original ideas, analytical work, and socially relevant topics.

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Fakultné kolo Študentskej vedeckej odbornej činnosti (ŠVOČ) aj tento rok potvrdilo, že naša fakulta má výnimočných študentov a študentky s výskumným potenciálom. Hoci sa do súťaže v zimnom semestri prihlásilo viacero záujemcov, svoje práce dokončilo a odovzdalo len päť z nich. Ich výsledky však ukázali, že kvalita prevážila kvantitu – a že ŠVOČ na fakulte zostáva priestorom pre originálne nápady, analytickú prácu aj spoločensky dôležité témy.

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Flavio Malnati is an Italian-born economist currently working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Finance, affiliated with the Department of Economic Policy. We spoke with Flavio about his experience teaching both Erasmus and Slovak students, his perspective on our faculty and university, and the research projects he is currently working on.

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V Toronte sa aj tento rok konala medzinárodná súťaž v obchodovaní, Rotman International Trading Competition. V konkurencii  takmer štyroch desiatok tímov z celého sveta sa nestratili ani študenti Národohospodárskej fakulty študijného programu Finančné trhy a investovanie v zložení Bc. Adam Cicák, Bc. Gabriel Husarčík, Bc. Jozef Lajčin a Bc. Martin Vražda, pod odborným vedením doc. Ing. Jany Kotlebovej, PhD., doc. Ing. Petra Árendáša, PhD. a Ing. Marka Dávida Vatehu, PhD.

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Matej Horňák specializes in analyzing the macroeconomic development of the Slovak economy. He studied Economic Policy at the University of Economics in Bratislava. As a research assistant, he worked at the Industriewissenschaftliches Institut in Vienna and has been employed at Slovenská sporiteľňa since February 2020. The team of economic analysts at Slovenská sporiteľňa, of which he is a part, has been the most cited team in the Slovak market every year since 2022. Since 2018, he has also been involved in municipal politics as a member of the local council.

In this interview, we discussed his studies, professional journey, advice for current students, and the current challenges facing the Slovak economy.

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A recently published study, Life Satisfaction and Inequality in Slovakia: The Role of Income, Consumption, and Wealth, in the journal Social Indicators Research, examines how income, consumption, and wealth influence subjective perceptions of life satisfaction in Slovakia.

The study was conducted by Peter Tóth from the Faculty of National Economy and the National Bank of Slovakia, along with Biswajit Banerjee, also from the National Bank of Slovakia. The findings provide new insights into how different forms of economic inequality affect well-being.

We spoke with Peter Tóth about this topic.

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