Antea Barisic

• University of Zagreb

In recent decades, the development of novel technologies has intensified due to globalisation, prompting countries to enhance competitiveness through innovation. These technologies have significantly improved global welfare, particularly in sectors like healthcare, where they have facilitated tasks and boosted productivity, for example playing a cr...

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) and trade within global value chains (GVC) have been considered one of the most important vehicles of economic development and competitiveness, especially for countries in transition. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe are competing to attract not only high amounts of FDI inflows but they also put emphasis...

Technological changes in transport and communications have shown to be one of the most important determinants of geographic fragmentation of production process which led to shaping of global value chains (GVCs). Governance of these complex production systems is becoming increasingly challenging, especially due to the lack of information about the p...

During the 1990s Croatia went through the process of transition to market economy mostly following the Washington Consensus policy guidelines. Since the period before the last global financial crisis, Croatia has shown almost no convergence to developed European Union member states and has been among the least developed ones. This paper examines th...

Background: Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are unevenly distributed around the world and determined by different factors. The literature points out to economic and non-economic determinants of FDI flows, while the latter have shown to generate ambiguous effects across regions. Objectives: The primary goal of this paper is to examine the rela...

The Eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) since the early 2000s have included post-transitional economies at a lower level of development than the existing member states and thus, have significantly affected the East-West migration flows and labour markets on both sides. This has provided a distinctive opportunity to study the effects of...

Noted by several researchers, Law of One Price (LOOP) and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) do not stand for most of the products in the short and long run. It is important to investigate what stands behind it, besides some specific additional costs that could lead to different results. Our goal is to check whether there are any general determinants th...

This paper examines the validity of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory, using 12 different single-product baskets of Apple devices. Given the presented advantages of Apple indices as PPP measurement in comparison to the most prominent informal index- the Big Mac index (BMI), they are therefore pointed out to be more adequate modern measures o...