The article shows the relationships between the COVID and non‑COVID deaths during the first year of the pandemic, compared with the stringency of restrictions imposed and the compulsory spending on healthcare. We compare these relationships among European countries, analysing weekly data and...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled “Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues” that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

We analyze inflation expectations of individuals in 9 Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) countries adding to the growing literature on the formation of inflation expectations. The CESEE countries are a particularly interesting region in this regard given their transition history...

This paper employs an extensive household survey data set covering a wide range of transition countries to empirically characterize real estate ownership of households. The types of dwellings, housing tenure (own vs rent), second home and land ownership, and mortgage prevalence by household...

This paper classifies Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries according to time-series data on wage ratios, tertiary education, and NEET rates from 2008 to 2021. Principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were used, first the combination of PCA and HCA for...