This study attempts to examine ethnocentrism of B&H consumers, animosity tendencies, and consumers' notions of products originating from two neighboring countries - Croatia and Slovenia.The aim is to expose the causal relation between the expression of an individual's animosity,her/his...

This paper is focused on the process of evaluating performance of employees. Special emphasis has been put on possible errors that may impair the objectivity of the outcome of this process. The purpose of implementing this process lies in identifying potential employees, providing information...

The Sharpe-Lintner Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) implies a simple linear equation for pricing risky financial assets, individually and in portfolios. CAPM finds that the relevant risk measure of individual financial assets held as a portion of a well-diversified portfolio is not a variance...

The problem frequently faced by companies from transition and developing countries in attraction of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is lack of an adequate institutional framework which would adequately promote the potential those companies have through its activities, and with that also...

The paper starts from the premise that local development policy could be seen as a tool for effective management and usage of comparative and competitive advantages in space and time. By applying the centralized administrative model in managing society and economy, Bosnia and Herzegovina is not...

The main objective of this paper is to determine the scope of the use of derivatives by companies in B&H for specific purposes of financial risk management. The aim is to provide a comparative analysis with companies from Slovenia and Croatia in order to determine if companies in B&H use the...

The paper deals with the issue of intra-industry trade on the example of the trade between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans. The aim of the research is to present the characteristics of Bosnia and Herzegovina trade with the region in the 2004-2011 period, in the context of...

Banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina are exposed to credit risk the most, since loans make up the largest part of the total banking assets. The need to improve the decision-making process in credit business in banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina is confirmed by a rapid trend of participation of...

In the early 1990s, when the break-up of the soviet bloc spread to the Balkans, dominant neoliberal economic wisdom recommended swift privatization of public assets, deregulation, and dismantling of the social safety net. Building upon the research of one of neoliberalism’s leading architects,...

The aging of the population causes unfavourable demographic trends that are significantly affecting the current state and the future of pension systems on a global basis. The increased number of pensioners and a significant decrease in the rate of demographic reproduction have negative effects...