The World Bank and wiiw launched the first-ever database to provide easily-accessible regional labour market data for the Western Balkans, together with a report on recent trends. For more information please follow the wiiw link.
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Olga Radzyner Award 2017
The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has a long tradition of supporting science and academic research. In this spirit, the OeNB has introduced the Olga Radzyner Award, which is bestowed on excellent young economists from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in commemoration of Olga Radzyner, former Head of the OeNB’s Foreign Research Division. This year, the award […]
Read MoreHanžeković Prize 2017
The Prof. Dr. Marijan Hanžeković Trust announces its competition for the award of the annual prize for 2017. Papers must be submitted by June 1, 2017 at the latest. The papers must be accompanied by an application form. All the entrants have to satisfy the terms of the competition. Croatian and foreign nationals have the […]
Read More125 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 […]
Read More124 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 […]
Read MoreGDN – SEE The Seventh Phase Papers
The papers of the GDN SEE project’s seventh phase are now available online at the wiiw Balkan Observatory website. wiiw economists and research teams from the SEE region have been analysing the reasons for the lagging behind of Southeast Europe under the broad theoretical approach that can be characterised as that of the Austrian theory […]
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Papers prepared for the Seventh Phase of the GDN – SEE project: Research area: ‘Falling behind and catching up in Southeast Europe’: 2014 06 wiiw bo wp 112, Mario Holzner The Effects of Highway Construction in the Balkans: Insights from the Via Militaris (PDF) 2015 09 wiiw bo wp 114, Predrag Četković The Role […]
Read MoreSixth Phase
Papers prepared for the Sixth Phase of the GDN – SEE & CIS project: Research area: ‘Microeconomic effects’: 2012 11 wiiw bo wp 100, Ivana Herceg and Danijel Nestić A New Cluster-Based Financial Vulnerability Indicator: The Analytical Concept and its Application for Stress Testing in a Post-Socialist Economy (PDF) 2012 12 wiiw bo wp […]
Read More123 Backwardness, Industrialisation and Economic Development in Europe
2016 06 wiiw bo wp 123 Mario Holzner, Amat Adarov and Luka Šikić Backwardness, Industrialisation and Economic Development in Europe (PDF) Abstract The present work uses long-term economic development data (1952-2010) as well as a detailed industry-level panel data (1963-2011) to analyse industrialisation patterns in Europe, implications of economic backwardness and the role […]
Read More122 A Narrative Explanation of Breakpoints and Convergence Patterns in Yugoslavia and its Successor States 1952-2015
2016 06 wiiw bo wp 122 Ivo Bićanić, Milan Deskar-Škrbić and Jurica Zrnc A Narrative Explanation of Breakpoints and Convergence Patterns in Yugoslavia and its Successor States 1952-2015 (PDF) Countries covered: Yugoslavia
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