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 examines whether cryptocurrencies are hedging instruments for green and non-green energy instruments. We differantiate between cryptocurrencies with two types of consensus mechanisms, Proof-of-work and Proof-of-stake, which reflect the demand for energy used for the coins'...

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of selected sovereign Central European credit default swap (hereinafter referred to as “sovereign CDS” or “sCDS”) prices and investigate regional and European interdependencies among the economies under examination during the period 2008–2011. We...

The former U. S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors Alan Greenspan stated recently that the LIBOR-OIS spread, understood as the difference between the LIBOR rate and the term overnight indexed swap, is „a barometer of fears of bank insolvency”. In the following article we use the LIBOR-OIS...