Category: Working Papers

125 The Transfer and Adjustment Problems in the Balkans

  2016 11 wiiw bo wp 125 Vladimir Gligorov The Transfer and Adjustment Problems in the Balkans (PDF)   Abstract How to deal with significant external imbalances due to persistent cross-border financial flows which eventually dry out while accumulated foreign debts need to be financed from increased exports? Keynes and Ohlin, primarily, debated an apparently […]

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124 Massive Migration and its Effect on Human Capital and Growth: The Case of Western Balkan and Central and Eastern European Countries

  2016 08 wiiw bo wp 124 Isilda Mara and Michael Landesmann Massive Migration and its Effect on Human Capital and Growth: The Case of Western Balkan and Central and Eastern European Countries (PDF)   Abstract We analyse the effect of massive migration particularly from the Western Balkans and the Central and Eastern European countries […]

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121 Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans: Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since the early 19th century until present days

  2016 05 wiiw bo wp 121 Eduard Alvarez, Mario Holzner, Stefan Jestl and Jordi Marti-Henneberg Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans: Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since the early 19th century until present days (PDF)   Abstract In this paper we analyse the economic effects of railway infrastructure at […]

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118 Regional Patterns of Deindustrialization and Prospects for Reindustrialization in South and Central East European Countries

2015 12 wiiw bo wp 118 Zoran Aralica and Nebojsa Stojcic Regional Patterns of Deindustrialization and Prospects for Reindustrialization in South and Central East European Countries (PDF) Abstract Past decades in Central and South East European countries have been characterised with shrinking of manufacturing output and employment. However, little is known about the causes, nature […]

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