Publications

This paper looks at Poland's family-based welfare model and examines the main challenges around developing long-term care in the country.chevron_right

This paper looks at long-term care (LTC) in Lithuania including its philosophy, legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. It also provides a demand side perspective on long-ter...chevron_right

This paper uses household income and consumption data covering the period from 2003 to 2009 to test the hypothesis of pro-poor growth in Azerbaijan. It also analyzes the main factors behind the income...chevron_right

This paper argues that there is a discrepancy between the number of obstacles to innovation perceived by managers of firms (subjective obstacles) and the number of actual obstacles to innovation faced...chevron_right

This paper gives an overview of the long term care landscape in Romania. The author reports that Romania does not have an integrated long term care system and that long term care needs are addressed b...chevron_right

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. The analysis carried out by the authors shows that there are considerable differences in sensitivities to th...chevron_right

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of fiscal policies and PFM reforms in 7 countries in the Western Balkans and 12 countries in the CIS, including major macroeconomic and poverty tr...chevron_right

This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. ...chevron_right

This paper analyzes the nature of the EU's current energy security problems, emphasizing the increased importance of natural gas and high level of dependence on Russian supplies through a small number...chevron_right

The EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 1997 foresees the possible establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between the parties. The aim of this study is to ev...chevron_right

The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to th...chevron_right

The paper shows that the standing of theory in the field of mergers and acquisitions is weak for at least three reasons. Research is best described as a battlefield of ad hoc theory testing leaving be...chevron_right

This paper shows that the monetary policy paradigm that was in place before the financial crisis worked very well and that the crisis occurred only after policy makers deviated from that paradigm. The...chevron_right

This paper discusses the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 in 13 countries: the 10 new EU members that previously were communist and the three countries of western former Soviet Union. The author a...chevron_right

This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighborhood from the nation-state to the household and particularly to poor households in the transition and ...chevron_right