In order to meet the European Green Deal and REPowerEU objectives, the CESEC region needs to step up the efforts for renewable energy deployment, including renewable and low-carbon gases. In order to do so, an adequate network of infrastructure, alongside a fit-for-purpose regulatory framework,...

The Vienna Initiative's working group on climate change and financial stability enhanced cross-border cooperation on climate risk assessment in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. Between 2021-2023, the group focused on data quality, regulatory challenges, and transition pathways for...

This research note offers a comprehensive view of low-wage employment. It investigates the nature and extent of low-pay persistence in European countries, using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) spanning 2004 to 2019. The study focuses...

The Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESEE) Bank Lending Survey was developed in the context of the Vienna Initiative 2.0 and has been endorsed by the various participating institutions as an instrument for: monitoring cross-border banking activities and deleveraging in the region;...

This paper aims to analyse consumers' perceptions and attitudes towards natural cosmetic products from three Central European countries. In this study, we employed quantitative surveys on samples of 230 Czech, 175 Slovak, and 325 Polish respondents. Based on the obtained data, we investigate...

"The theory of interventionism of the Austrian School of Economics explains the successes and failures of the transformation processes in Central and Eastern European countries and offers a deep insight into contemporary economic phenomena. Three decades have passed since the collapse of...

Júlia Király, Dóra Győrffy: Economic Sanctions -- Péter Benczúr, István Kónya: Economic Growth & Resilience -- Jakub Głowacki, Anna Gomola, Michał Król, Łukasz Mamica, Monika Mazur-Bubak: Energy Markets: Current Situation and Possibilities for Stabilisation -- Szilárd Benk, Péter...

In wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht war die Erweiterung der EU um die mittel- und osteuropäischen Länder (MOEL) erfolgreich. Diese Staaten konnten sich durchweg in den gemeinsamen Binnenmarkt integrieren. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung deutet auf Konvergenz und Kohäsion. Dazu haben auch...