Our mission is to provide rigorous academic insights about vital household finance issues to aid policy makers to improve the life of citizens and residents in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Under the broad umbrella of growing living standard concerns, we aim to focus on the housing conditions, housing affordability, retirement planning, gender and racial equality, and sustainability topics.

We bring together passionate researchers from diverse fields such as economics, finance, mathematics, and social sciences to drive impactful change and improve lives. Join us in our collaborative effort to grow together, create a better future, with more targeted policy planning, financial education, and sustainable living in the region.

Our mission is to provide rigorous academic insights about vital household finance issues to aid policy makers to improve the life of citizens and residents in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Under the broad umbrella of growing living standard concerns, we aim to focus on the housing conditions, housing affordability, retirement planning, gender and racial equality, and sustainability topics.

We bring together passionate researchers from diverse fields such as economics, finance, mathematics, and social sciences to drive impactful change and improve lives. Join us in our collaborative effort to grow together, create a better future, with more targeted policy planning, financial education, and sustainable living in the region.

The Central and Eastern European Center for Household Finance (CEEC-HF) aim to serve as a coordinating research platform for high-quality, policy-relevant academic research on household financial behaviour, economic decision-making, and institutional design in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

The core function of the Center is to:

• Organise and structure regional research collaboration in household finance,

• Facilitate joint research projects and international publications,

• Provide an institutional platform for competitive grant applications, and

• Connect academic research with policy-relevant questions faced by transition and emerging economies.

To ensure clarity, coherence, and scalability, we operate with a four-pillar research structure., allowing focused thematic research while maintaining strong integration across topics that jointly shape household financial outcomes.

Overall, our center with a growing team of affiliated researcher and likeminded collaborators plan to foster collaborative research and information sharing on all household related topics:

• aging

• family planning, childcare

• retirement planning

• financial education

• fiscal policy related to housing

• fiscal policy related to family well being

• gender equality

• housing quality

• housing affordability

• home financing, mortgages (incl. reverse mortgage solutions)

• pension system, private and public pensions

• and all other related topics.