An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

In this paper we proposed an analysis of the financial crisis impact on the procedures for management of loan portfolios in several banking systems. Despite ample liquidity injection programs implemented by major central banks and government actions, credit risk remains a key challenge of the...

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the European Union's (EU) member states' exposure to labor market risks. I try to accomplish this by empirically assessing whether there is a pattern of symmetry across the EU over time, or whether particular labor market risks are...

An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

Our study aimed to assess the degree of heterogeneity of the macroeconomic framework of the 27 EU member countries, against the background of turmoil manifested in the international financial markets. In this regard, we applied a hierarchical cluster analysis technique, for two moments of time,...