While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic...

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to...

The purpose of our paper is to contribute to the literature on autocracy promotion by analyzing Central Asia as the most-likely case,...

Secure and well-managed migration and mobility figure prominently in the European Union’s (EU) relations with its Eastern neighbors. In the...

Econometric estimates of the determinants of current account (im)balances invariably start with the accounting ‘identity’ that the current...

In recent years, a number of Western industrialized nations have experienced a notable polarization of political ideologies, and growing...

This paper analyses the importance of global shocks for the global economic developments and national policymakers from a novel perspective....

The Ukraine crisis seems to support the claim that strong socio-economic ties with Russia eventually reduce the effectiveness of the European...

Esther Ademmer and Yaroslav Lissovolik examine the challenges for inclusive economic integration in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia. They note...

Most studies on the relationship between public debt and economic growth implicitly assume homogeneous debt effects across their samples. We...

Nowadays foreign exchange interventions occur in emerging market economies, whereas empirical studies on interventions mainly refer to...

This paper provides new insights into the relationship between exchange rates and productivity developments for European Economies. We focus...

The scale of inequality around the world is almost unfathomable. The average inhabitant of Norway, Qatar and Switzerland earns more in one day...

We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a limiting factor for...

In its current approach to achieve an appropriate euro area fiscal stance, the EU Commission asks countries with fiscal space to provide extra...

This article investigates whether different capitalist varieties in Central and Eastern Europe have different records of post-accession...