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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)  

2003 11 wiiw bo wp 035 Daniel Daianu and Dragoş Pâslaru The Romanian Economy and the EU (PDF)  

2004 06 wiiw bo wp 051 Boris Majcen Protective Structures in Slovenia (PDF)  

2006 07 wiiw bo wp 067 Liviu Voinea and Flaviu Mihaescu The Determinants of Foreign Banking Activity in South East Europe: Do FDI, Bilateral Trade and EU Policies Matter? (PDF) Abstract This research paper attempts to find explanatory variables for foreign banks activity in SEE and CEE, mainly among three categories of factors: FDI, bilateral […]

2009 10 wiiw bo wp 083 Ivo Bićanić and Oriana Vukoja Long Term Changes in Croatia’s Wage Inequality: 1970-2006 (PDF)