Finance in Central and Southeastern Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Is Monetary Policy Really Forward-Looking? The Case of the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary

   • Magdalena Szyszko

   Pages 1-16

3. A Study of the Possible Consequences in the Event of an Accelerated Issuance and Widespread Use of Private e-Money: A Case Study of Montenegro

   • Biljana Rondovic, Vujica Lazovic, Tamara Djurickovic, Dijana Kovacevic

   Pages 17-34

4. What Drives a Local Currency Away from Banking Markets? Some Southeast Europe Insights

   • Srđan Marinković, Ognjen Radović

   Pages 35-56

5. Exposure to Exchange Rate Risk and Competitiveness: An Application to South-Eastern Europe

   • Alexandra Horobet, Aleksandar Shivarov, Lucian Belascu

   Pages 57-87

6. Cointegration Analysis of Non-performing Loans and Macroeconomic Conditions

   • Kemal Kozarić, Emina Žunić

   Pages 89-102

7. Explaining CSR Performance with Contextual Factors: Focus on Development Banks

   • Ana Kundid Novokmet, Andrijana Rogošić

   Pages 103-123

8. Interdependence Between Indicators Used for Identifying Impending Bankruptcy and Selected Indicators

   • Anna Siekelova, Ivana Podhorska, Katarina Valaskova

   Pages 125-134

9. Credit Risk and Bank Profitability: Case of Croatia

   • Sandra Pepur, Marija Tripović

   Pages 135-144

10. New Role of Mutual Insurers on the Insurance Market

    • Marietta Janowicz-Lomott, Adam Śliwiński

    Pages 145-159

11. Delistings from the Athens Stock Exchange: Recent Evolutions

    • Antonios Papathanasiou, Chris Grose, Persefoni Polychronidou

    Pages 161-171

This book describes specific problems and proposes solutions for different areas of finance in Central and Southeastern European countries. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, from monetary economics and electronic money to capital markets, banking and insurance, it comprises theoretical and empirical contributions by authors from nine countries - Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia and Greece. Intended for academics as well as policy makers and practitioners it offers new perspectives on Central and Southeastern European finance research. 

• Financial Institutions
• Monetary Policy
• Banking
• Central Europe
• Southeastern Europe
• Electronic Money
• Insurance Market
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Croatia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Montenegro
• development finance
• insurance

• Faculty of Economics, University of Split , Split, Croatia

  Srećko Goić

• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece

  Anastasios Karasavvoglou

• Department of Accounting and Finance, Central Macedonia Institute of Technology, Serres, Greece

  Persefoni Polychronidou

Srećko Goić is a professor at the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Split, Croatia. His main research interests are human resources management, employee financial participation, local and regional development, and economics of transition, and he has published numerous books and papers in these fields. He has also served on the editorial boards of several journals throughout Central and Southeastern Europe. 

Anastasios Karasavvoglou is a professor of economics and president of the annual international conference "The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changed World". He has published numerous books and papers on immigration, regional development and the labor market.

Persefoni Polychronidou holds a PhD in mathematics and has a scientific interest in data analysis, discrete transforms and realization of algorithms for the fast processing of data. She is assistant editor of the “International Journal of Business a

nd Economic Sciences Applied Research” and has published several papers on empirical economic data.

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