This study explores the factors influencing household overcrowding using longitudinal survey data from Germany spanning the years 1985 to 2022. As average square meters per capita have declined for urban tenants, we find that overcrowding rates have substantially increased since 2012: By 2022,...

Interreg is an instrument of Cohesion Policy promoting cooperation among different organizations of Europe to tackle common challenges. Project funding within Interreg could become competitive, given the strong interest from numerous institutions in participating. This, in turn, may lead to...

The paper investigates the effects of internal migration flows on regional convergence in Serbia, a country with large regional disparities, during the period 2000-2018. For this purpose, we implement both the net and the gross (in- and out-) migration approaches. We undertake separate analyses...

This paper assesses the transition of UK regions towards the policy ambitions of "building back greener" and "levelling-up" the UK economy. We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods to calculate regional economic and environmental efficiency for 41 UK ITL2 regions between 2005 and 2020, and...

This paper investigates the spatial distribution of two nutritional variables: obesity prevalence in women and chronic malnutrition prevalence in children across 339 municipalities in Bolivia in 2016. Using data from the Municipal Atlas of the Sustainable Development Goals Bolivia 2020, the...

The importance of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) for economies and livelihood is widely recognized, especially in emerging economies. However, there are scarcely any studies on their spatial determinants, particularly in Indonesia, where MSMEs account for more than 95% of...

In this study, we use daily gold log-returns to analyse the quality of forecasting expected shortfalls (ES) using volatility and models based on the extreme value theory (EVT). ES forecasts were calculated for conditional APARCH models formed on the entire distribution of returns, as well as for...