This paper aims to explore the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on the twenty-seven European Union (EU) member states, known as the EU-27. A vector autoregression (VAR) of quarterly data for the period 2020-2022 was employed to study the impact of the coronavirus...

This policy report provides an up-to-date assessment of Ukraine's fiscal situation and locates the analysis in the longer-term context of the needs to keep the state viable in the current war situation, but also to deal with the challenges of reconstruction after the war and on its path towards...

In knowledge-intensive economies, skills emerged as crucial resources, determining economic development. Thus, in the post-pandemic, digital world, digital skills gain new ground, attracting the interest of researchers and practitioners. As one of the first studies on the topic in the region,...