) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind … in the adoption of structured management practices. Nevertheless, overall, Croatia is farther from a frontier economy … managed firms in all regions, including Eastern Croatia, show superior firm performance. What drives better management? Global …

process in Croatia since the onset of recession (2008-12). Four types of results are highlighted. First, there is a persistent … (and increasing) heterogeneity in the performance of Croatian firms along outcome measures. Second, Croatia lags behind … point to reduced firm dynamism compared with Croatia's peers in Europe and Central Asia. Fourth, the contribution of net …

Croatia began to implement case-based provider payment reforms in hospitals beginning in 2002, starting with broad … is still too early to quantify the impact of Croatia's introduction of formal diagnostic related groups, it appears that …

suggests that household over-indebtedness in Croatia is unlikely to become a drag on aggregate economic activity and that … by Croatia on account of household indebtedness …

Croatia employed macroprudential measures to manage credit growth and capital inflows during the boom years of the 2000 …

average firm in Croatia scores 0.532 on structured management practices, which is farther from the frontier (0.615 in the … countries, a large share of firms in Croatia are badly managed. Management is particularly worse in services and more so in non … linkages of firms matter. However, unlike the evidence in advanced countries, management capabilities in Croatia is negatively …

The labor market performance in Croatia failed to keep pace with the moderately good overall macroeconomic development … Force Survey (LFS) data from 2002-04, this paper studies the labor market performance in Croatia at the national and …

spending reduced inequality in Croatia; however, once the impacts of indirect taxes are considered, the system is unable to …