wiiw Balkan Observatory

2009 05 wiiw bo wp 081 Flaviu Mihaescu and Liviu Voinea The Impact of the Flat Tax Reform on Inequality: The Case of Romania (PDF) Abstract In this paper we focused on the flat tax impact on inequality in Romania. We compared 2005 against 2004, when we were able to isolate the flat tax impact […]

1999 10 wiiw bo wp 002 Gligor Bishev Monetary Policy and Transition in Southeast Europe (PDF)  

2002 01 wiiw bo wp 018 Dennis C. Mueller Constitutional Quandaries in Southeast Europe (PDF)  

2003 11 wiiw bo wp 034 Milko Štimac Barons Uprising (PDF)  

2004 06 wiiw bo wp 050 Max Gillman and Dario Cziráky Inflation and Endogenous Growth in Underground Economies (PDF) Abstract The paper examines the effect of inflation on the growth rate in economies with underground, or ”non-market”, sectors. The model incorporates a non-market good into an endogenous growth cash-inadvance economy with human capital. Taxes on […]

2006 07 wiiw bo wp 066 Mariana Kotzeva and Bianka Pauna Labour Market Dynamics and Characteristics in Bulgaria and Romania: Challenges for a Successful Integration in the European Union (PDF)  

2009 08 wiiw bo wp 082 Daniel Pop Guest-worker Programs and the Propensity to Emigrate: Evidence from the Work-and-travel USA program in Romania (PDF) Abstract Targeted seasonal guest‐worker program replace wider scope immigration policy and are expected to formalize irregular migration flows, to recruit sufficient numbers of seasonal migrants, and to provide critical revenues of […]

1999 11 wiiw bo wp 003 Michael Emerson Perspectives for the Balkans and a Wider European Order (PDF) AbstractCEPS established a template for EU strategy towards the Balkans already during the Kosovo war, and this was refined in the Ljubljana Declaration by the think tanks of the region (with CEPS) in July before the Sarajevo […]

2002 01 wiiw bo wp 019 Jane Miljovski and Vanco Uzunov International and Regional Economic Integration in South East Europe: The Case of Macedonia (PDF)