I present empirical results on the contribution of three key drivers of inflation in Denmark: an inflation trend anchored by inflation expectations; the Danish business cycle; and an energy price cycle. All three drivers contribute significantly to the development of inflation and explain most of...

Existing research has shown that deprived areas were impacted to a greater extent by the COVID-19 pandemic in a multitude of ways but particularly in terms of the health impact. This research examines the health impact of the pandemic on people living in disadvantaged areas in Ireland. Health...

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

Le mouvement social en Haïti pâtit depuis plusieurs décennies de l’absence d’un acteur majeur, les classes moyennes, dont l’appauvrissement et le déclin sont en train de donner naissance à d’importantes mutations sociales, économiques et politiques dans ce pays. L’action...

Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich erstens mit dem Vergleich der sozioökonomischen Entwicklungen zwischen der Slowakei und den anderen neuen östlichen Mitgliedsstaaten der EU. Anhand makroökonomischer und anderer Indikatoren wird der relative Erfolg der sozioökonomischen Entwicklung der...

This paper seeks to quantify how the welfare of different types of household changed between 2006/07 and 2009/10; a period which included the 2008/09 recession. We use three measures of household welfare: income, expenditure and the equivalent variation metric. The equivalent variation is a...