The Maltese authorities have made significant progress towards gender equality over the last two decades. Supportive government policies and a steady inflow of foreign labor have played a key role in increasing women's participation in the labor market. In addition, the attainment of higher...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI models and their use have significantly advanced in recent years, evolving from their historical role in automating routine tasks to now performing complex cognitive functions. As a result, it has the potential to reshape the job landscape across a...

Malta's rapid growth over the past two decades has gone hand in hand with a significant expansion of the population. This has created bottlenecks in infrastructure, which will need to be addressed. While capacity in energy and water supply is currently adequate, investments in wastewater...

Malta has experienced strong growth over the past decade, primarily driven by export-oriented service industries, such as tourism and online gaming. Although growth is expected to moderate, it will remain among Europe's highest in the near term, along with tight labor markets. Inflation has...

In this paper, we study the role of wealth transfers in shaping homeownership in Malta. Leveraging data from four waves of the Maltese Household Finance and Consumption Survey, we perform a logistic regression to investigate how financial inflows in the form of gifts or inheritances, affect (i)...

This paper presents the findings derived from a comprehensive survey conducted by the Central Bank of Malta, in collaboration with the National Statistics Office, with the aim of analysing payment habits in Malta. The research explores individuals' perspectives on various aspects, including...

We construct an Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Malta based on the methodology of Baker, Bloom and Davis (2015) using articles published between 2004 and 2022 from four Maltese news portals. The index spikes during general elections and other significant local or international...

Economic policies are generally formulated on the basis of data available in real time, which might subsequently be revised. Implicitly, the possibility of data revisions creates an element of uncertainty around the very same data driving policy decisions. Given that such uncertainty could be...

This paper presents a Machine Learning approach adopted at the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Malta to detect outliers in the Maltese Pension Schemes and Insurance datasets, which are collected by the Bank, at micro-level. The motive behind this study is to develop an outlier...

Six EESC members took part in the country visit to Malta. The delegation met with representatives of civil society, namely civil society organisations (CSOs), social partners and the media on the one hand, and several governmental and judicial authorities on the other. The aim of this report is...

Six EESC members took part in the country visit to Malta. The delegation met with representatives of civil society, namely civil society organisations (CSOs), social partners and the media on the one hand, and several governmental and judicial authorities on the other. The aim of this report is...

The Education and Training Monitor's country reports present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy development at all education levels in the 27 EU Member States. They give the reader more in-depth insight into the performance of a country as regards the EU-level targets agreed within...

The Education and Training Monitor's country reports present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy development at all education levels in the 27 EU Member States. They give the reader more in-depth insight into the performance of a country as regards the EU-level targets agreed within...

The Education and Training Monitor's country reports present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy development at all education levels in the 27 EU Member States. They give the reader more in-depth insight into the performance of a country as regards the EU-level targets agreed within...

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool that is designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union and in Candidate Countries. This narrative report has been produced on the basis of the implementation of the MPM that was carried out...

This Fact Sheet forms part of a series of 27 Fact Sheets, each one providing data insights into the twin transition and the technological performance of industrial ecosystems of a specific EU Member State. It has been prepared within the 'European Monitor of Industrial Ecosystems' (EMI) project...

The supreme law of Malta is the Constitution of 1964, as amended. Malta is an independent republic with a parliamentary system of government. Parliament makes laws subject to respect for Malta's international obligations, including membership of the European Union. The European Union Act of 2003...

The JRC has established a strong and productive partnership with Malta in the field of nuclear, specifically nuclear radiation, and health. Through this collaboration, the JRC has worked closely with Malta's national authorities, research institutions and other stakeholders to exchange...

The JRC has established a strong and productive partnership with Malta in the field of nuclear, specifically nuclear radiation, and health. Through this collaboration, the JRC has worked closely with Malta's national authorities, research institutions and other stakeholders to exchange...

This report documents the work done in the most recent annual update for Malta. This work was carried out by the EUROMOD core development team, based at the JRC in Seville, in collaboration with the national team.

Twenty years ago, Malta took its rightful place in the European Union. With EU membership, Malta's economy has blossomed, attracting investments and trade. Malta is a strong supporter and contributor to EU solidarity. And Malta is helping our Union push the clean and digital transitions forward....

This Flash Eurobarometer, 'Public opinion in the EU regions' (FL539), was conducted at the request of the Directorate-General for Communication. The survey is designed to assess the views of EU citizens living in each of 194 individual regions across the 27 EU Member States. The survey was built...

Twenty years ago, our European family grew bigger. On 1 May 2004, the citizens of Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia became citizens of the EU. Overnight, our Union became a greater political, economic and cultural entity, stretching from...

This unique insight into the corporate investment in Malta examines companies' finance needs and the constraints they face. The 2023 edition also provides insight into the pressing issues facing firms, such as climate change, high energy costs and the green transition. The survey, which has been...

The strategic use of ambiguity is a well-known instrument used by those in power to the detriment of citizens. Malta is no exception. This paper explores the strategic use of ambiguity illustrating how in Malta, laws, regulations, and international conventions are frequently misinterpreted by...

We construct an Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Malta based on the methodology of Baker, Bloom and Davis (2015) using articles published between 2004 and 2022 from four Maltese news portals. The index spikes during general elections and other significant local or international...

Economic policies are generally formulated on the basis of data available in real time, which might subsequently be revised. Implicitly, the possibility of data revisions creates an element of uncertainty around the very same data driving policy decisions. Given that such uncertainty could be...

This study develops a framework for forecasting selected balance sheet items of the four largest Maltese core banks, with a particular emphasis on bank profitability. Methodologically, it employs two multivariate time series models, namely a Factor-Augmented VAR (FAVAR) and a Bayesian VAR...

This paper presents Resilience and Sustainability (RST) contribution agreements finalized with four contributors between October 2023 and March 15, 2024. The concluded agreements provide for contributions in a total amount of about SDR 1.2 billion across the three RST accounts - the loan...

This paper documents the extension of MEDSEA, a small open economy DSGE model for Malta, with a detailed energy sector. The model contains relatively rich fiscal and energy blocks allowing the model to simulate the transitional costs related to the economy's decarbonisation, together with the...

This paper presents a credit gap for Malta derived from a semi-structural multivariate filter. This modelling approach has several advantages over univariate approaches typically used, for example to construct the Basel gap. The multivariate filtering of observed data into trends and cycles is...

This Selected Issues paper examines the pass-through dynamics from monetary policy interest rates to retail bank interest rates in Malta, in comparison with other euro area countries. In Malta, the pass-through to both deposit and lending rates has been relatively limited since the European...

The 2023 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malta has experienced an impressive recovery from the pandemic and demonstrated resilience to shocks resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The challenge for the medium term is to ensure a robust policy framework to foster strong, socially-...