Yugoslavia laid the legal foundations for capital investments by foreign firms in 1967. It was the first socialist country to permit foreign investments and apart from Roumania and Hungary is still the only one which has done so. Prerequisites have thereby been provided for very close relations...

Die Themen Bildung, Forschung und Innovation sind heute, an der Schwelle zur "Wissensgesellschaft" des 21. Jahrhunderts, von überragender Bedeutung für die wirtschaftliche Zukunft jeder Volkswirtschaft. Aufgrund ihrer Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und Zuständigkeiten ist es für die politischen...

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...