This paper explores the heterogeneity of growth in the Western Balkan and Emerging European economies. For that purpose …, growth determinants are estimated in the period 1997-2009 by dynamic panel data models. The chosen period provides a … determining economic growth, but foreign direct investments and economic integrations seem to have the most important role in …

) induce more or less 'growth promoting' policies. However, effects on long run growth have proved harder to identify. We … affect growth differently in countries with different constitutional designs. Empirically we find strong support for this … hypothesis - constitutions indeed seem to matter for how natural resource abundance affects long run growth. In fact, the form of …

macroeconomic framework in expaining the weak growth performance of Europe is explored. …