Date: 22.06.2012
Kochmeister awards ceremony at the former Exchange hall
(Budapest) The Kochmeister award was handed over yesterday for the eighth time. The award
ceremony took place in the former exchange hall at Deák Ferenc street on the event series organized
under the title "Back to the floor!" to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the re-opening of the
Hungarian exchange. The Budapest Stock Exchange founded the Kochmeister Award in 2004 to reward
talented young people who submit the best paper(s) on predetermined topics related to the Stock
Exchange. The award is named after Baron Frigyes Kochmeister, who played a leading role in 1864, in
establishing the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange, and, as the first chairman of the Exchange,
managed the institution for years. BSE' Chief Executive Officer Zsolt Katona handed over the
prizes.
Thirteen essays that arrived from seven national higher education institutions were in
competition in the contest dedicated to the memory of Frigyes Kochmeister in 2012.
The professional jury awarded the following winners:
First place: Tamás Csizmár – student of Corvinus University of Budapest
Title: Behind the insiders
Second place: Gábor Papp - student of Corvinus University of Budapest
Title: Venture capital in Hungary
Third place: Czelleng Ádám - student of Tudomány University of Pécs
Title: Impact of flexibility to the capital structure at the BSE
About the Budapest Stock Exchange
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Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna, is the largest stock exchange group in the region. CEESEG
simplifies access to markets and trading with the aim to increase liquidity on the local exchanges.
The CEESEG stock exchanges cooperate with 12 stock exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe and are
recognized throughout the world for this unique expertise.