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Assessment of labour inequalities in Baltic states

Streimikis, Justas - 2025

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Digital production investments and financial outcomes : a Baltic and rest of Europe comparison

Lastauskaite, Aiste - 2026

This study provides new evidence on how production digitalization investment affects firm financial performance across diverse European regions. A panel of 14,935 firm-year observations from 30 countries (2012-2022), including a focused Baltic subsample, is used alongside a refined digital...

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Strengthening FDI and SME Linkages in the Baltic States

2026

This report examines how stronger linkages between foreign direct investment (FDI) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can help translate foreign investment into local SME capabilities and foster more resilient, competitive and inclusive economies. In a context of shifting global value...

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Dynamic dependence between sectoral indexes of BRIC countries and the baltic dirty tanker index : an investigation using the generalized R2 approach

Tok, Şerife Akıncı; Tarkun, Savaş - 2025

This study analyzes the dynamic connectedness between the Baltic Dirty Tanker Index (BDTI) and sector indexes in the stock exchanges of the BRIC countries, focusing on the chemical, oil, and raw materials sectors. Using daily data from January 1, 2015, to September 30, 2024, the analysis reveals...

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Impact of geopolitical turmoil in the developing European stock markets vs. the global benchmark indices : an event study analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian war

Grinius, Meinardas; Baležentis, Tomas - 2025

The capital markets are sensitive to geopolitical events. It is important to provide evidence of reactions to specific geopolitical events in order to identify general patterns and effective risk management strategies. This study follows the event study approach to assess the reactions of...

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Competitiveness and Productivity in the Baltics : Common Shocks, Different Implications

Armendariz, Saioa - 2025

This paper examines competitiveness and productivity in the Baltics. Focusing on recent developments, it asks why Russia's war in Ukraine led to a prolonged recession and strong decline in competitiveness in Estonia, while Latvia and Lithuania shielded their economies more effectively. The paper...

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Firm size as a moderator of stakeholder pressure and circular economy practices : implications for economic and sustainability performance in SMEs

Ahmadov, Tarlan - 2025

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Evaluation of the Baltic Sea multiannual plan for fisheries regulation : European implementation assessment

2025

This European implementation assessment of Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 establishing a multiannual plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks aims to inform the ongoing work of the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries (PECH) on...

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Financial performance and capital structure dynamics of the high-tech startups in the Baltic region

Kleponė, Daina; Neverauskienė, Laima Okunevičiūtė - 2025

This study examines young fast growing technology startup companies in Baltic region. Employing unique datasets of startups financial accounting data from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia comparative and correlation analysis between growth, profitability and financial leverage indicators reflects...

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Northern horizon : strengthening security in the Baltic Sea region

Surwillo, Izabela; Slakaityte, Veronika - 2025

As a part of a two-volume series, this report provides a strategic assessment of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany in the context of escalating geopolitical threats in the Baltic Sea region. It analyses how each country has recalibrated its defence posture - through adjustments to military...

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North-eastern flank : militarisation of the Baltic frontier

Slakaityte, Veronika; Surwillo, Izabela - 2025

As part of a two-volume series, this report provides a critical analysis of NATO's north-eastern flank - Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - as a vital bulwark against evolving Russian threats. It examines how the four countries have transitioned from post-Soviet vulnerabilities into pivotal...

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Hysteresis effects on unemployment rates : a comparative study of the Baltic states before and after EU accession

Köse, Tuna - 2025

This study examines the hysteresis effects on unemployment rates in the Baltic countries using the RALS-LM unit root test method, based on monthly data from February 2000 to August 2024. It assesses the persistence of unemployment by gender, focusing on both female and male unem-ployment rates....

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Assessment of new climate and energy targets for the baltic states

Štreimikienė, Dalia - 2025

The European Union is the global forerunner in climate change mitigation policies. The new climate change mitigation targets were set for the European Union (EU) countries following the Energy and climate package targets established for renewable energy sources, energy efficiency improvements,...

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How frontline states tackle sanctions against Russia : implementation and enforcement dynamics in Poland and the Baltics

McNaughton, Katarzyna J.; Łukowski, Marcin - 2025

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, reshaped the EU's security landscape, prompting sanctions aimed at weakening Russia's war capabilities. These sanctions also redefined the roles of public authorities and the private sector, introducing new challenges in a shifting geopolitical...

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Financial crisis preparedness in the Nordic-Baltic region

Farelius, David; Sandahl, Johannes Forss - 2025

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Russia's naval build-up at Lake Ladoga : NATO must increase its long-range fire capabilities in the Baltic Sea region

Adrians, Helge - 2025

Russia apparently aims to be capable of attacking targets in the Baltic Sea region from Lake Ladoga, which is located north of Saint Petersburg and only 40 kilometres from the Finnish border. Since 2023, Russia has been evaluating the deployment of corvettes equipped with cruise missiles there....

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Estimation of LCOE for PV electricity production in the Baltic States - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia until 2050

Lebedeva, Kristina; Borodinecs, Anatolijs; … - 2025

This study explores the economic feasibility and long-term potential of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems in multi-apartment buildings across the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) through 2050. Using stochastic modeling and Monte Carlo simulations, it uniquely evaluates the...

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Mapping of marine protected areas and their associated fishing activities (MAPAFISH) : Baltic and North Seas, Atlantic EU western waters and outermost regions : final report

2025

The European Union (EU) Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 sets the target for protected areas in the EU at 30% of its sea area, one third of which needs to be strictly protected. While there is growing interest in studying the progress of ocean protection, there is a need for an overview of the...

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Mapping of marine protected areas and their associated fishing activities (MAPAFISH) : Baltic and North Seas, Atlantic EU western waters and outermost regions; Final report annex 5: Case studies

2025

In total, nine case studies in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic EU Western Waters and some outermost regions (Madeira and Canary Islands) were selected to gather more information on the response of the fishing activities to MPA designation and implementation. The selection of case studies is...

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State of implementation of the Pan-European Action Plan for Sturgeons : Baltic Sea region 2024

2025

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Multi-criteria analysis of the Baltic banks from client attraction and profit generation perspectives

Kriščiukaitytė, Karolina; Baležentis, Tomas; … - 2025

The economic and regulatory environment banks operate in poses challenges in regard to different facets of sustainability and requires proper managerial and technological innovations. Bank performance can be analysed from various viewpoints. Therefore, it is important to develop comprehensive...

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Allocative Efficiency, Firm Dynamics, and Productivity in the Baltics : Republic of Estonia

Hu, Bingjie - 2025

Labor productivity growth has decelerated in the Baltic economies during the past two decades, with the downturn accelerating in recent years. This Selected Issues Paper analyzes the roles of allocative efficiency and firm dynamics in productivity growth. Our results suggest that the lack of...

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The Great Depression in Eastern Europe

2025

"As the centenary of the Great Depression approaches, this book offers a historical study of its impact on Eastern Europe. Due to its agricultural dominance this region was particularly hard hit. The volume focuses on ten states of the interwar period that had emerged from the Ottoman, Romanov,...

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The Great Depression in Eastern Europe

2025

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The Great Depression in Eastern Europe

2025

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Taxing bank windfall profits : lessons from the Baltics

2025

The shift in monetary policy has different repercussions on bank profits depending on the prevalence of fixed or floating interest rates charged on loans. The Baltic states provide a case study of the impact of monetary tightening on profits in predominantly floating interest rates setup amid...

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Baltic dry index forecasting using a neuro-fuzzy inference system

Atsalaki, Ioanna; Atsalakis, George S.; Melas, … - 2025

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Reinterpretation of economic history in the Baltic countries, 30 years after independence

Kõll, Anu-Mai - 2025

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Climate change performance of baltic states based on global climate change indices

Štreimikienė, Dalia; Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios L. - 2025

This paper explores the climate change performance of the Baltic States-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - through the lens of global climate indices, with particular emphasis on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). As EU member states, the Baltic countries are subject to increasingly...

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Multi-criteria decision analysis of Circular Economy performance in the Baltic States : a comparative evaluation

Štreimikienė, Dalia; Bathaei, Ahmad; Baležentis, Tomas; … - 2025

This study embarks on a comparative evaluation of Circular Economy (CE) performance in the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) using a robust multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework. Drawing on 22 key indicators, the research applies the Technique for Order Preference by...

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The impact of digitalisation on employment and productivity in the financial sector : a comparative analysis of information and communication technology usage of Central European and Baltic businesses

Tóth, Arnold; Astanli, Ramin; Varga, Erika - 2025

Objective: The article aims to examine the impact of digitisation on employment and productivity in the financial sector and provide a comparative analysis between the Central European and the Baltic countries as no study has yet compared these two regions in terms of digitalisation and...

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Do global disruptive events induce herding behaviour during upward and downward market movements? : The evidence from Nordic and Baltic stock markets

Legenzova, Renata; Leckė, Gintarė; Juknevičiūtė, Justė - 2025

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Small states in the shatter belt : demographic and geopolitical challenges of the Baltic states

Bógdał-Brzezińska, Agnieszka; Wendt, Jan A. - 2025

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Is Inflation Good for Business? The Firm-Level Impact of Inflation Shocks in the Baltics, 1997-2021

Cevik, Serhan - 2024

Using a large panel of firm-level data, this paper provides an analysis of how inflation shocks in the Baltics between 1997 and 2021 affected total factor productivity (TFP), gross profitability, and net fixed investment in nonfinancial sectors. First, we find that inflation and inflation...

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Futures markets and the baltic dry index : a prediction study based on deep learning

Su, Miao; Nie, Yufei; Li, Jiankun; Yang, Lin; Kim, Woohyoung - 2024

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The (un)usual suspects? : exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states

Pataccini, Leonardo - 2024

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Consumer price rigidity in the Baltic states during periods of low and high inflation

Fadejeva, Ludmila; Jouvanceau, Valentin; Paulus, Alari - 2024

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Consumer price rigidity in the Baltic states during periods of low and high inflation

Fadejeva, Ludmila; Jouvanceau, Valentin; Paulus, Alari - 2024

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Consumer price rigidity in the Baltic states during periods of low and high inflation

Fadejeva, Ludmila; Jouvanceau, Valentin; Paulus, Alari - 2024

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Kaliningrad Oblast 2024 : Russia's vessel of havoc on the Baltic Sea

Cordes, Miłosz J. - 2024

Kaliningrad Oblast was created as a war trophy and a symbol of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945/1946. For nearly seven decades, it played a strictly military role in Soviet and Russian foreign policy, mostly limited to its Baltic Sea surroundings. This changed when Vladimir Putin came...

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Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies : Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries

Bruno, Lars C.; Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2024

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Assessment of green growth in the Baltic States

Štreimikienė, Dalia - 2024

EU Green Deal and US Green New Deal strategies indicate that green growth is at the center of the policy agendas of many developed countries and regions. The green growth is a key element in achieving sustain- able development. Green growth is an economic growth strategy that prioritizes human...

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A global oil market model with shipping costs

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2024

This paper investigates the role of shipping costs in global crude oil and refined petroleum markets and their effects on regional and country-level inflation and real activity. For this purpose a Global VAR (GVAR) model is estimated jointly for the oil and refined petroleum markets; this...

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Optimal intertemporal broadband investments to promote regional economic development

Holmen, Rasmus Bøgh; Kuosmanen, Timo; Masso, Jaan; … - 2024

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Tabletop exercise : coherent resilience Baltic 2023 (CORE23-B) : final report

2024

Coherent Resilience 2023 - Baltic (CORE 23-B) was a Tabletop Exercise on the energy system of the Baltic States with a focus on maritime critical energy infrastructure protection against hybrid threats. The Tabletop Exercise took place on 13-17 November 2023 in Riga, Latvia. The aim of the...

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Tabletop exercise: coherent resilience Baltic 2023 (CORE23-B) : final report

Dirginčius, Evaldas; Kopustinskas, Vytis; … - 2024

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Assessing spillover from marine protected areas to adjacent fisheries : Baltic and North Seas, Atlantic EU Western Waters and Outermost Regions : final report

2024

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely recognized as an important tool for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management. Despite empirical evidence that abundance and biomass of fished species increase within MPA boundaries, the potential for MPAs to provide fisheries benefits to...

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Lithuanian economy : 1919-1940 : stagnant but resilient : the first inter-war GDP time-series estimates and their implications

Klimantas, Adomas - 2024

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Impact of marketing, sales and innovations on business performance analysis in intellectual capital research : Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania

Titova, Nellija; Sloka, Biruta - 2024

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Estimating healthcare expenditures for Northern Europe and the Baltic region : revisiting the Baumol model

Singh, Shailender; Amar Singh; Mohan, Arvind; Gour, Tanuja - 2024

The study aimsto empirically test Baumol's cost disease hypothesis about to the secular rise in healthcare expenditures for Northern Europe and the Baltic region in recent decades. Panel data regressions and adjusted Baumol variables are applied to the data for 11 countries of Northern Europe...

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The effect of foreign direct investment, domestic investment, and trade on economic growth : evidence from the Baltic countries

Yeboah, Evans - 2024

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), domestic investment, and trade on economic growth in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Using annual time-series data from the World Bank for the period 1995-2022, the analysis employs the Pooled Mean...

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The recreational value of the Baltic Sea coast : a spatially explicit site choice model accounting for environmental conditions

Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Budziński, Wiktor; Zandersen, … - 2024

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Classic cleavages in a new light : Chinese informational influence in the Baltics

Merkinaitė, Simona; Andrijauskas, Konstantinas; … - 2024

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The tale of the Baltics : experiences, challenges, and lessons from reforming their national Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)

McNaughton, Katarzyna J. - 2024

The banking sector of three Baltic countries, i.e., Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, was abused by money laundering scandals between 2018 and 2020. The Danske Bank scandal was the largest one and, combined with the other scandals, inevitably triggered a heavy critique of national anti-money...

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