This paper examines economic and institutional convergence between EU Core, EU New, and Western Balkan countries over the period 2004-2023 using a comprehensive panel dataset and multiple convergence frameworks. Evidence of absolute β-convergence is found, although at a slow pace, while...

Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) is a building material with high thermal insulation properties used as masonry units in the construction of residential buildings. Although volumesof post-demolition AAC (pd-AAC) volumes are increasing, it is mainly landfilled today while landfill fees rise,...

Any manufacturer or innovator - whether headquartered in Munich, San Francisco, Zurich, or Mumbai - that places a product on the European market will soon face a spike in liability risk under the revised EU Product Liability Directive (PLD). Introduced as a consumer protection measure, the...

Design-based econometrics, centred on average treatment effects in the potential-outcomes framework, treats causal effects as population-level expectations under hypothetical interventions and thereby offers an expectation-based, mechanism-agnostic conception of causality. This conception is...

This article provides evidence for Colombia on the economic consequences of union dissolution, divorce, and the breakup of cohabiting unions, using three waves (2010, 2013, and 2016) of a nationally representative longitudinal survey. We estimate individual fixed‑effects models with...