Economic and Financial Challenges for Balkan and Eastern European Countries

1. Front Matter

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2. Political Risk Complementarity Between Business Economics and International Relations

   • Ioannis Psychogyios, Efstathios Fakiolas, Nikitas Spiros Koutsoukis

   Pages 1-11

3. The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: Empirical Analyses for Western Balkan Countries

   • Abdylmenaf Bexheti, Luljeta Sadiku, Murat Sadiku

   Pages 13-32

4. Inflation and Economic Growth in Turkey: Evidence from a Nonlinear ARDL Approach

   • Özcan Karahan, Olcay Çolak

   Pages 33-45

5. Distance as Determinant of FDI in Transition Countries. The Case of Serbia

   • Dimitrios Kyrkilis, Natasa Grujic

   Pages 47-71

6. The Financial Services Exports of China and the Role of RMB

   • Spyros Roukanas, Emmanouil Karakostas

   Pages 73-87

7. The Succession in SMEs

   • Lambros Tsourgiannis, Giannoula Florou, Michael Nikolaidis, Athanasios Mandilas

   Pages 89-99

8. Innovativeness of Serbian Enterprises as a Factor of Competitiveness Improvement at the International Market

   • Milica Jovanovic, Milica Djokic

   Pages 101-115

9. Electric Energy Sector in Turkey and Energy Trading Between Turkey and Balkan Countries

   • Turker Susmus, Ozgur Babacan

   Pages 117-131

10. Profitability Determinants of Insurance Companies in the Republic of Serbia

    • Ivana Marjanović, Žarko Popović

    Pages 133-159

11. Instruments for Financing Damage in Animal Production in Poland and the European Union

    • Marietta Janowicz-Lomott, Krzysztof Łyskawa

    Pages 161-175

12. Private Voluntary Health Insurance: Market in Poland and Determinants of Demand—Review of Literature

    • Adam Śliwiński, Iwona Borkowska

    Pages 177-192

13. Healthcare Goods and Services—An Economic Perspective

    • Dan Sava

    Pages 193-206

14. The Path for Introducing Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) in Albanian Health care

    • Niccolò Persiani, Alberto Romolini, Laura Yzeiraj, Edi Dragusha, Emiljan Karma

    Pages 207-222

15. On a Bertrand Dynamic Game with Differentiated Goods, Heterogeneous Expectations and Asymmetric Cost Functions

    • Georges Sarafopoulos, Kosmas Papadopoulos

    Pages 223-241

16. Forecasting Meal Requirements Using Time Series Methods in Organization

    • Mustafa Yurtsever, Vahap Tecim

    Pages 243-254

17. The Upcoming Role of the Enterprise Architect—From Overseeing Visualization and Documentation to Becoming the Enabler for Change and Innovation

    • Daniel Marth, Christian Ploder, Thomas Dilger

    Pages 255-272

18. A Hierarchical Analysis of Internet Adoption and Usage by the Seniors

    • Elias Gounopoulos, Ioannis Kazanidis, Stavros Valsamidis, Sotirios Kontogiannis

    Pages 273-289

19. What Happened in Turkey After Booking.com Limitation: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets via Text Mining

    • Ekin Akkol, Serkan Alici, Can Aydin, Cigdem Tarhan

    Pages 291-301

20. Sentiment Analysis of How Turkish Customers Affected by PayPal Closure

    • Serkan Alici, Ekin Akkol, Can Aydin, Cigdem Tarhan

    Pages 303-313

This proceedings book presents selected papers from the 10th international conference on the "Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World" (EBEEC), held in Warsaw, Poland, in May 2018. In addition to discussing the latest research, it includes papers adopting a wide variety of theoretical approaches and empirical methodologies and covering a number of key areas, such as international economics, economic growth, finance and banking, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, labor and energy markets, innovation, management and marketing. In addition, the authors discuss policy instruments and best practices for the region. This book appeals to scholars and students in fields of economics and finance as well as practitioners interested in the development of the region.

• European integration
• Economic growth
• Finance and banking
• Innovations in the region of Balkan and Eastern Europe
• Energy markets
• Labor markets
• Healthcare markets
• banking

• Department of Risk and Insurance, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland

  Marietta Janowicz-Lomott

• Collegium of Management and Insurance, Poznań University Economics and Business, Poznań, Poland

  Krzysztof Łyskawa

• International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece

  Persefoni Polychronidou

• International Hellenic University, Kavala, Greece

  Anastasios Karasavvoglou

Marietta Janowicz-Lomott is an Associate Professor at the Department of Risk and Insurance Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. He is the author of several dozen scientific publications in the fields of finance, insurance and risk management. 

Krzysztof Łyskawa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Insurance, Poznań University of Economics, Poland. He has worked in academia, the private sector and associations, and his research and professional activities focus on risk management, property insurance, pension schemes, and life insurance. He has also worked in various brokerage companies since 1998. 

Persefoni Polychronidou is an Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics in Accounting and Finance at the International Hellenic University. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR). Her research focuses on statistical and data analysis and she has published numerous papers on empirical economic data. 

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 Changing World". He has published numerous books and papers on immigration, regional development and the labor market.

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