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2010 12 wiiw bo wp 088 Marat Ibragimov, Rustam Ibragimov and Rufat Khamidov Measuring Inequality in CIS Countries: Theory and Empirics (PDF) Abstract Distributions of many variables of interest in developed economic and financial markets, including income and wealth, exhibit heavy tails as in the case of Pareto or power laws. Many commonly used income […]

2001 12 wiiw bo wp 009 Milojko Arsić, Zorica Mladenović and Pavle Petrović Macroeconomic Stabilization in the FRY (PDF)  

2002 02 wiiw bo wp 025 Vojmir Franičević The Postsocialist States in Southeast Europe: Challenges and Dilemmas (PDF)  

2004 04 wiiw bo wp 041 Krešimir Jurlin Protective Structures in Croatia (PDF)  

2004 10 wiiw bo wp 057 Philippe Kohler The Welfare Cost of Tariff Protection in the Balkan Countries (PDF) Abstract For eight Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, and Slovenia) the welfare cost of tariff protection on imports of goods based on recent years tariff data (2001 to […]

2006 09 wiiw bo wp 073 Goran Nedic Financial and Technical Assistance in the Reconstruction and Development of Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (PDF) Abstract Ineffective aid management and coordination as well as old fashion model of aid sequencing were few of the major culprits why Bosnia and Herzegovina is still not on self sustainable path. […]

2011 01 wiiw bo wp 089 Vesselin Mintchev, Venelin Boshnakov and Alexander Naydenov Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria (PDF) Abstract The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in […]