Roberta Bajrami

AAB college · Department of Economics

The influence of international trade freedom on economic growth is a significant factor. International trade promotes trade freedom (Unger, 2007), and most studies show the positive impacts of trade freedom on economic growth (Mercan et al., 2013). In this study, we search for the effects of international trade freedom on the Western Balkan countri...

The primary factors that were initially assumed to contribute to a decline in household income were job losses, which affect the decrease in consumption (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2020; Doerr & Gambacorta, 2020). Kosovo’s government has taken measures of social distancing, having a major impact on households suc...

This paper analyzes the relationship of macroeconomic factors to the level of non-performing loans (NPLs) using the econometric models GMM, the Fixed Effect model, and the Random Effect model. This study aims to identify macroeconomic factors at the level of non-performing loans in the Western Balkans, measure their impact on non-performing loans,...

Private consumption is considered one of the main drivers of economic growth in Western Balkan countries. The main aim of this study is to estimate the impact of private consumption on the economic growth of the Western Balkans, including the North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Housing wealth was even t...

Studies to date show that taxes have a very high impact on company liquidity (Law & Yuen, 2019; Drogalas, Lazos, Koutoupis, & Pazarskis, 2019). The International Monetary Fund (IMF, 2022) shows the need to release tax procedures and their monitoring in the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo law is such that it disables the timely liquidity of construction...

The Keynesian theory states that economic growth is positively affected by government spending, while Classical theory states that economic growth is negatively affected by government spending, as is stated by neoclassical public choice theorists (Nyasha & Odhiambo, 2019). Based on these theories, many authors have carried out research on the impac...

The informal economy is a very important phenomenon which is present not only in developing countries but also in developed ones, thus attracting the attention not only of researchers and economists, but also of policy-makers. Moreover, the impact of the informal economy on the unemployment rate is indisputable, however what remains debatable is th...

The human race has been at the edge of the COVID-19 pandemic since the start of 2020. While the disease is easily transmissible, a large proportion of the people affected are recovering. Most recovered patients do not suffer COVID19 death, even though they have been observing for a long time. In the sense of survival analysis, they can be viewed as...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of public debt in relation to economic growth. The current public debt and economic growth surveys show that the threshold where public debt yields positive results in GDP growth for transition countries is 30-50% of GDP and from this level or above, there are negative effects in economic grow...

The main purpose of this research is to describe and sift the overall level of motivation of the employees of hotel enterprises in the region of Ferizaj, in the Republic of Kosova regarding the factors affecting it as well as measuring the relationship between motivation and quality of service. The first objective of this study is to measure and de...

Many manufacturing make their products in few locations and ship them to many different locations. In this paper we use Evolver, Excel Solver and Microsoft Solver Foundation in order to optimize transportation cost or to find the cheaper way to make and ship products to the customers and meet customers’ demands. “Proplast” company that manufactures...

Abstrakti Ky punim fillon me rishikimin e literaturës për të kuptuar rëndësinë e burimeve njerëzore për një ndërmarrje. Qëllimi i këtij punimi është që të kuptojmë rëndësinë për menaxhimin efikas të burimeve njerëzore për një ndërmarrje të vogël ose të mesme (NVM), në mënyrë që ajo ndërmarrje të jetë konkurruese në treg. Identifikimi i nevojave të...