This paper explores the role of employment pool composition on labor matching effectiveness in ten Central and Eastern European countries from 2005 to 2023. We control for the structure of the labor force in terms of education, age, and gender. The results point towards a significant impact of...

Deep renovation, is seen as crucial in dealing with energy security and meeting climate targets, especially in post-Soviet countries with notoriously energy-inefficient residential housing stock. One critical question is whether these retrofits can achieve the energy savings promised by the...

This article investigates firms' strategies for international expansion, foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports. We use the framework of Helpman et al. (2004) to illustrate how firm-level productivity differences influence these strategies. We extend this model with multifactor production...

This paper estimates high-dimensional fixed effects models using detailed administrative data to characterize the public-private wage gap in Lithuania between 2010 and 2020. We quantify that public sector employees earn, on average, 10% more than their private sector counterparts. A...

This paper proposes a new sustainable development index incorporating informality measures for 36 European countries from 2010 to 2022. This index is estimated via a combination of national accounting, macroestimates of informality, and survey data through partial least squares (PLS) regression,...

This paper examines how changes in the minimum wage influence an economy with a substantial informal sector. To achieve this, we simulate the recent minimum wage increase in Latvia, providing a comprehensive assessment of its macroeconomic, sectoral, and distributional effects. This panoptic...

We provide new evidence on countries' tax effort - the gap between collected and predicted tax revenue - based on a self-constructed panel of 114 countries, covering the period from 1995 to 2020. We apply the stochastic frontier model of Kumbhakar et al. (2014. Technical efficiency in competing...

This study examines whether public governance in China has an impact on corporate tax avoidance. The anti-corruption campaign of 2012 is used as a natural experiment, and we run an event study to investigate how it impacted tax avoidance. We find that tax avoidance was significantly lower after...

This paper explores the governance effect of tax administration digitization on corporate tax avoidance. Using data from 2,032 firms publicly listed in China during 2010 and 2020, our paper is among the first to report that the development of digital technologies such as big data and cloud...