After more than eight years of implementing transition reforms, the economic environment in Serbia, while showing signs of progress, remains unsatisfactory. The economy of Serbia is facing too many difficulties, which are reinforced by the “spillovers” from the global financial crisis....

This paper has attempted to analyse certain influence aspects the global crisis has had on the Western Balkans countries, above all on Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. Our analysis focuses on events on stock exchanges, for which we have applied comparative...

A large amount of studies has attempted to trace the presence of herding during extreme periods at the cross-sectional level by associating herding with the reduction in the cross-sectional dispersion of returns around the market average. In this paper we address the issue of whether the...

In this text we will show a connection between the level of corruption and the level of the FDI entering an economy. We are focusing the institutional efficiency and institutions as regulating organisms. After presenting the theoretic approach, we will to approach our theoretic conclusions on...

This paper studies relative banking efficiency in three Balkan countries: Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. Firstly, we analyze different financial transition paths which account for present situation and have an impact on efficiency. We equally go through some macro- and micro- economic indicators...

The suspension of economic sanctions and the liberalization of Serbian economic system after the year 2000 led to free space for foreign direct investment. The delay, caused by economic sanctions, in opening the country towards the environment for more than ten years have a great impact to...

This paper presents a set of measures and instruments which National Bank of Serbia has taken to prevent or at least ease the effects of global financial crisis on national financial system and support confidence in Serbian banking sector during the last two years. It describes the main drivers...

In this paper, we attempt to measure the leverage effect generated by public indebtedness by showing that it is advisable for a Government to jointly use public funds and public debt when financing public expenditures because of the improvement in public fund profitability produced by such a...

The contemporary global economy appears to be structured around the relationships established between countries with strong foreign exchange balances and low domestic indebtedness, like China, and countries with high foreign exchange deficits and high domestic indebtedness, like the United...