Using data for 201 regions (NUTS 2) in Europe, we examine the mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic and how the … mortality inequalities between regions changed between 2020 and 2022. We show that over the three years of the pandemic, not … only did the level of excess mortality rate change considerably, but also its geographical distribution. Focusing on life …

isolation index and mortality, which is much stronger in Eastern countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged … between a 20 to 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated, that number jumps to 45% for the Eastern … observe. Up to 13 percent of the effect of baseline social isolation on mortality can be imputed to the combined one …

This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver … behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our …

In its Communication "Building a European data economy" the EU Commission discusses the introduction of a new exclusive … in the Communication from an economic perspective. Important results are that a "data producer right" cannot be …