Bardhyl Dauti

University of Tetova · Department of Economics

Foreign Direct Investment has been considered as one of the main factors underlying the relative growth rates experienced by the Macedonian Economy. The raising trend of FDI inflow made possible the deep liberalization and transformation of an economy, thus increasing the degree of openness and integration of Macedonian economy into the world marke...

This paper accounts for the main determinants of Foreign Direct Investment stocks to 5-South East European Countries and the 10-New Member States of the European Union countries by using an augmented Gravity Model, for the purpose of calculating the potential levels of FDI stock in Macedonia. The study takes into account country specific institutio...

The goal of this research is to provide an empirical assessment of the complementarity or substituting relationship between Trade and FDI in a link to country characteristics, using bilateral level data between FDI and trade for the period 1994 – 2010. In the research, an augmented gravity model has been used to test the relationship between Tr...

The chapter outlines the fiscal policy in the EU, in the light of Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), by focusing the analysis on the need for fiscal rules in the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries. The chapter also reviews the European semester for economic and fiscal policy coordination. The last section of the chapter outlines the implications...

Our paper analyzes the way in which fiscal policy works across the phases of the economic cycle, more precisely it checks the pro-cyclical features of this policy. The sample we have chosen includes the EU countries, except for Cyprus and Malta, for the 1995-2014 period. To measure the pro-cyclicality and the way in which fiscal policy responds to...

The relevance of the topic is justified by the diversity of unique natural ecosystem objects in the territories of Kosovo and North Macedonia, where forestry activities are traditional. The aim of the study is to analyse the current state of ecosystem services provided by forests in Kosovo and North Macedonia in the context of their assessment and...

The economic objective of each economy is to establish economic growth which would be associated with less unemployment. On theoretical grounds the inverse relationship of growth and unemployment is captured by Okun's law. The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between economic growth and unemployment in Albania, thereby reveali...

Regional economic development is considered as an important feature for enriching the economic cohesion policy. Regional development policy for North Macedonia implies a state institutional effort for settling a national priority within the framework of EU’s policy for promoting economic and social cohesion, derived from the Lisbon Strategy, aimed...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment has been treated as crucial factors underlying the relative growth rates experienced by the Albanian Economy, especially during the late years, thus, boosting economic growth in the country and improving the degree of integration of the Albanian economy into the World markets. The paper aims to provide an empiric...

Regional economic development is considered as an important feature for enriching the economic cohesionpolicy. Regional development policy for North Macedonia implies a state institutional effort for settling a nationalpriority within the framework of EU’s policy for promoting economic and social cohesion, derived from the LisbonStrategy, aimed at...

The objective of this study is to offer an empirical valuation of the relationship between external debt and economic growth in the Western Balkan (WB) countries, focusing specifically on the countries like Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, combined with other WB countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. The empirical model p...

This research aims to provide an empirical assessment of the relationship between fiscal policy sustainability factors, like fiscal deficit and economic growth in the Western Balkan countries and East European Union Countries, using panel-level data for the yearly time span from 2000-2021. The empirical model provides the impact of fiscal deficit,...

The paper examines real and nominal convergence of North Macedonia toward European Union (EU) and European Monetary Union (EMU), with regard to real and external developments as well as fiscal and monetary developments in the country, in line with Copenhagen and Maastricht criteria. Hence, the North Macedonia's economic developments in prices, fisc...

The objective of this research is to provide an empirical assessment on the nature of FDI in selected transition economies, using bilateral country level data on FDI and export between 5 South East European countries (SEE-5), 10-New European Monetary Union Countries (10-EU-NMS) and 20 countries from the OECD, at e yearly time period from 1994 to 20...

This paper tests the institutional determinants of Foreign Direct Investment flows to 5 South East European Countries (SEEC-5) and the 10 New Member States of the European Union countries (EU-NMS-10) by using panel data set for a time span 1994-2018. The study employs an augmented Gravity Model with country specific institutional factors which dete...

The authors have studied insolvency situation from Romania in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, using 5 years of financial statements data for 70 Romanian companies from different economic sectors, which all entered insolvency in 2013. We have designed a model for predicting insolvency risk which can be used by any interested party, since...

This paper accounts for the main determinants of Foreign Direct Investment stocks to 5-SEEC and the 10-New Member States of the EU countries by using an augmented Gravity Model. The study takes into account country specific institutional factors that determine foreign investors’ decisions from 14 core European Union countries to invest into SEE-5 a...

This paper, using quarterly data for the period 1994-2013, examines empirically the long run relationship among exports, gross capital formation, foreign direct investments and economic growth relying on Error Correction mechanism (ECM) model for Macedonia. To capture the causality effect between the macroeconomic factors of exports, gross fixed ca...

Abstract The first part of the paper examines the objective of the study. Following, in the second part we continuo with analyses of the importance of FDI to transition economies of (SEEC) South East European Countries. The study examines the trend and characteristics of FDI based on geographical distribution of FDI in the SEECs and compare its amo...

The euro was introduced on January 1, 1999. As of now, 16 European Union Member States have adopted the euro in line with the requirements of the Treaty, the most recent ones being Cyprus and Malta on January 1, 2008 and Slovakia on January 1, 2009. This implies that 11 Member States are at present not full participants in Economic and Monetary Uni...