Commitment to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a segment of students’ positive or negative behavior in the academic community. We define the negative behavior as students’ commitment to plagiarism and copyright violation. The overall objective of this paper is to give a recommendation...

Ever since Schumpeter, macroeconomists have argued that financial development has a large and direct effect on the long run wealth of a nation. In this paper, we empirically investigate this relationship for a panel of 16 South-Eastern and Central European countries over the period 1995-2014 by...

Ever since Schumpeter, macroeconomists have argued that financial development has a large and direct effect on the long run wealth of a nation. In this paper, we empirically investigate this relationship for a panel of 16 South-Eastern and Central European countries over the period 1995-2014 by...

We assess the effectiveness of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) in predicting intra-household bargaining power. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment with 464 agricultural households, where spouses made decisions about money allocations. The experiment...

The aim of this paper is to emphasise the importance of the institutional support in the process of application and registration of Macedonian agro-food products for PDO/PGI protection. The research was supported with the results of pilot project that study eleven potential agro-food products...

We aim to give an overview of the different levels of commitment towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) among agri-food companies in the Republic of Macedonia so to emphasize its basic role in creating competitive market position. The low-level IPR committed companies were analyzed by...

The aim of this paper is: (a) to emphasize the importance of the industrial property rights for countries in transition economy, (b) to analyze the international trade and competitiveness of Republic of Macedonia and EU countries and (c) to present geographical indications as a powerful...

Tobacco production has a long tradition in R. Macedonia. It is an industrial crop with over 70% share in the total industrial crops area, and an average share of some 30%, in total agricultural export. As a labor intensive crop, it provides employment for the rural population and presents a...

We analyze the importance of the industrial property rights and the competitiveness of wine sub-sector in four wine-producing countries in order to present geographical indications as a powerful marketing strategy for competitiveness. In the Macedonian agricultural sector, there is a low level...

The main objectives of the report are to monitor and evaluate the current agricultural policy instruments in the Western Balkan (WB) countries and to compare them with the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The report covers three main aspects in relation to its aims and objectives: 1. It...