In the new issue of Public Sector Economics Maja Matanić Vautmans, Marijana Oreb and Saša Drezgić based on data from the latest edition of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe examine the impact of socioeconomic inequalities among older people in the use of home care in the EU.

Maria Teresa Medeiros Garcia and André Fernando Rodrigues Rocha da Silva analyze the impact of demographic and economic variables, such as ageing, productivity, and unemployment, on pension expenditure in Portugal. 

Tihana Škrinjarić in the article Leading indicators of financial stress in Croatia: a regime switching approach explores which indicators are best in explaining the future probability of (re)entering a high-stress regime in Croatia. 

Marko Crnogorac and Santiago Lago-Peñas carry out an in-depth analysis of public expenditure in all former Yugoslavian countries with the purpose of verifying the existence of common patterns of spending, investigating the cyclicality hypothesis of fiscal policy in non-OECD countries, and analyzing both political and economic determinants of expenditure composition.

Pedro Jorge Holanda Alves, Jevuks Matheus Araujo, Ana Karolina Acris Melo and Eduarda Mashoski investigate the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth in Brazilian states from 1996 to 2015.

Wojciech Sońta reviews the book Participatory budgeting (contexts, models and practical experience) by Daniel Klimovský et al.