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 […]

  2016 03 wiiw bo wp 120 Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett, Vladimir Gligorov and Jelena Krstić Corruption Risk and Legitimacy in Outsourced Public Service Provision: Evidence from Serbia (PDF)   Abstract The provision of public services is an important way for weak states to build legitimacy, as long as the public regards the allocation of resources as […]

  2016 02 wiiw bo wp 119 Petre Caraiani A quantitative explanation of the low productivity in South-Eastern European economies: the role of misallocations (PDF)   Abstract It is well known that Southeast Europe is the least developed area in Europe. Using a methodology based on the idea of heterogeneous firms, this paper studies the […]

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 […]

  2015 11 wiiw bo wp 117 Roman Römisch Estimating agglomeration in the EU and the Western Balkan regions (PDF) Abstract The paper develops a model to consistently estimate agglomeration and agglomeration economies in European NUTS3 regions. It is based on the empirical observation that the size of population across regions as well as of […]

  2015 10 wiiw bo wp 116 Branimir Jovanović, Marjan Petreski and Igor Velickovski Tariff-induced (de)industrialization in transition economies: A comparative analysis (PDF)   Abstract In this paper we investigate if tariffs affect manufacturing value added in 25 countries from Central and Southeast Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Middle East and North Africa […]

  2015 10 wiiw bo wp 115 Sandra M. Leitner Firm growth and financing constraints in the NMS-10 and the Western Balkan countries – a comparative analysis (PDF)   Abstract The paper focuses on Emerging Europe and sheds light on the effects of different types of financing constraints on firm growth – both in terms […]

  2015 09 wiiw bo wp 114 Predrag Četković The Role of Banks in Economic Development in the Former SFR Yugoslavia (PDF)   Abstract The economic model of the former SFR Yugoslavia was subject to frequent institutional changes which were oriented towards the real economy as well as the banking sector. The country experimented with […]

  2015 02 wiiw bo wp 113 Blerjana Bino, Ketrina Çabiri, Erjon Curraj, Alban Hashani and Ilire Mehmeti Knowledge-Based Regional Development in Albania and Kosovo – Reducing social and economic disparities through social and economic innovation (PDF)   Countries covered: Albania, Kosovo