Although it already existed in Central and Eastern Europe during Soviet times, the irregular economy has boomed in the last dozen years, while undergoing a dramatic change of structure. This boom has sometimes been used to justify the claim that "transitional depression" has been grossly...

Economic integration and globalization are expected to promote economic growth and convergence. This article offers a comparative analysis of the pace of development in terms of GDP per capita in 79 economies from 1970 to 2019. Usually, economic convergence literature aims to establish whether...

Economic theory has recently begun to consider the economic impact of narratives. Narrative economics can also be extended to the analysis of the economic-political effect of narratives in the context of the European core-periphery divide, which intensified after the European sovereign-debt...