The current contagion that has rapidly spread all over the world mobilised impressive financial and sanitary resources in most of the affected countries. However, in the majority of cases these measures seem insufficient or inefficient, as the number of cases has exploded, while the increase in...

The paper represents a simulation exercise of the possible evolution of Yugoslav economy if the federation would have gone a peaceful transition to a market economy and democracy, similar to the other countries belonging to the former socialist group; we use the synthetic control method to...

In this paper we propose an index for measuring the reforms adopted in various sectors. As compared to the existing methodologies, the proposed tool has the advantage of quantifying the overall progress of reforms in five different areas (labour market, business environment, public finance,...

We analyse in this paper the main achievements of Romania during the period of ten years since joining the European Union. The analysis is based on a proposed Index of Structural Changes constructed that express the overall progress in five areas: business environment, labour market, state...

As a recent candidate to EU integration, Serbia has to undertake important economic reforms to ensure that its economy convergences towards the Western principles of competitiveness and efficiency. The analysis of recent trends in the economy shows that Serbia is slightly converging to EU...