How is it that Poland and Hungary, formerly regional leaders in democratic progress in east
central Europe, have become widely cited cases of democratic backsliding? According to …

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to
combined household survey and tax return data to re-evaluate trends in income inequality …

Smooth and stable commercial/business activities are the prime concern of every nation, as
these activities decide the developmental routes of the economy. This study has examined …

The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the
growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that …

This article provides novel estimates of long-term income inequality in Bulgaria and Czech
Lands/Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Relying on newly-constructed datasets and …

We assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in a small open economy,
using the case of Poland. We use a dynamic general equilibrium model with a search …

Body height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the
evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative …

The public debate portrays the middle class as the big losers in recent decades, while
people above and below seemingly fared better in terms of employment and income growth …

We estimate the effects of the introduction of a large cash transfer programme on support for
the ruling populist party in Poland. We exploit the variation at the municipal level in the …

This paper examines the impact of anti-market culture on a firm's environmental and social
(E&S) outcomes. We use the varying degree of intensity of historical anti-Jewish pogroms in …