This policy brief provides results regarding productivity levels and dynamics in the Western Balkan countries in a comparative perspective, drawing on the newly established wiiw Western Balkan Productivity Database. The database provides time series of value added, gross output and intermediate...

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...

In the 1990s, the Western Balkan region suffered from severe conflicts, which ended after intervention by United Nations and NATO forces and with the promise of accession to the European Union. In the early and mid-2000s, the prospect of EU accession and the global boom facilitated rapid...