Macroeconomic forecasting started around the Second World War as a way to test economic theories, but it also has a number of very concrete uses, playing an increasing role as an input in decision-making. The first macroeconomic models were produced by two famous economists, Tinbergen in 1939...

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

Formation and reservoir of steam injection well thermal properties are important parameters for evaluating thermal efficiency of thermal recovery process. Oil saturation of reservoir is also a crucial criterion for evaluating exploitation value of oil field. This study firstly presents a layered...

Planning sustainable development projects requires comprehensive and reliable information to serve as the base for making timely and reasonable decisions. A Geographical Information System (GIS) can be used to obtain such information in a comparatively quick and easy way using specialized maps...

Recent EU legislation recognizes energy communities (ECs) as central actors in the energy system. Despite a growing literature on ECs, intra-country studies have been lacking. However, regional polarization can pose an urgent challenge to accomplish energy goals. We aim to shed light on this,...