{"title":"Sovjetska industrijalizacijska debata","authors":"Dimitrije Birač","doi":"10.32910/ep.72.5.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.72.5.4","url":null,"abstract":"U radu se analizira sovjetska debata o industrijalizaciji, posebno sukob dvojice njenih protagonista – Preobraženskog i Buharina. Period sovjetske debate, 1922/23-1927/28, bio je najdinamičniji i najkreativniji period sovjetske ekonomske misli, ali i pun proturječja. Njegov kraj bio je presudni moment jačanja procesa iz kojih će se kasnije razviti staljinizam. Utoliko je značajnija borba političkih i ekonomskih ideja između teorijsko-ideoloških struja boljševičke partije, personificiranih u likovima dvojice glavnih partijskih ekonomista. Osnovna je teza rada da je pobjeda Buharinovih ekonomskih pogleda u konačnici vodila ukidanju nove ekonomske politike i nasilnoj kolektivizaciji, odnosno rupturi radničko-seljačkog saveza, iako to nije bila Buharinova namjera niti cilj njegove politike. Usporedno s time, poraz Preobraženskog označio je pobjedu teorije socijalizma u jednoj zemlji. U tom smislu, ove činjenice pružaju ponešto drugačije pojašnjenje historijske uloge Buharina i Preobraženskog od onih koje im se često pripisuju.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69443671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Individual Inventors Invisible?","authors":"V. Sugar, Alen Belullo, Emin Džanić","doi":"10.32910/ep.72.6.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.72.6.3","url":null,"abstract":"The research about the population of individual inventors/innovators in Croatia was carried out with the aim of finding answers to the following questions: 1. How many inventions/patents in Croatia are (not) commercialized; 2. What are the reasons of (un)successful commercialization of Croatian individual inventors' inventions/patents; 3. Is there any correlation between various forms of support for inventors / patent owners and successful commercialization; 4. Could education/training contribute to the successful commercialization of inventions/patents? The research was designed and carried out on individual inventors/innovators in Croatia via combination of online questionnaire and telephone interviews. The acquired data were analysed by descriptive statistics and nonparametric inferential statistics. Based on the results of the research, the literature and practical experience, a typology of individual inventors / innovators has been created. The research limitations relate to the lack of the institutional data and literature regarding the individual inventors. In addition to practical contribution of the findings regarding the public policies, there is also a theoretical contribution to existing literature.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69444440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stock Dividend Ex-Day Abnormal Return","authors":"Eyup Kadioglu, Ayhan Kirbas","doi":"10.32910/ep.72.5.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.72.5.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the impact of the ex-day of stock dividend on stock return and volume on Borsa Istanbul stock exchange. The data covers 1,220 stock dividends associated with 305 companies over the period 1997-2018. A positive abnormal return and volume is seen around the ex-day of stock dividend. The cumulative average excess return over market return starts to significantly rise ten days before ex-day and reaches its highest level on the ex-day before falling back in the days following. Our findings show that abnormal return around ex-day is strongly associated with stock dividend pay-out ratio, asset size and a company’s market value. The share of listed companies with higher stock dividend pay-out ratio or lower asset size or lower market capitalization, can generate respectively 5.97%, 6.08% and 5.88% abnormal return over market index return.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69443568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does financial literacy make the difference in non-life insurance demand among European countries?","authors":"M. Ćurak, S. Pepur, Dujam Kovač","doi":"10.32910/ep.71.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.71.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"While risk aversion and affordability of insurance are considered as the most important determinants of non-life insurance demand, understanding and knowledge of complex non-life insurance products are less researched. Studies on insurance demand conducted at the cross-section level, which include education, usually use it as a proxy for risk aversion and to a limited extent as a measure of financial literacy. Moreover, the general level of education does not accurately reflect the level of understanding of sophisticated insurance instruments. Consequently, the main aim of this research is to analyse the impact of financial literacy on the demand for non-life insurance by applying a more precise measure of financial literacy. The empirical analysis is based on the dataset of 38 European countries in the period from 2010 to 2016 and is done using the panel data analysis technique. Research findings confirm that financial literacy makes the difference in non-life insurance demand among European countries, while controlling for other economic, social/cultural, market structure and institutional determinants of non-life insurance demand. The paper contributes to the literature on non-life insurance demand, especially the one on the relationship between financial literacy and the demand for non-life insurance.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49318833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"External auditor’s analytical procedures and their impact on discovering material misstatements","authors":"Abdul Razzak Alshehadeh, Abdallah Atieh","doi":"10.32910/ep.71.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.71.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify the impact of the external auditor’s analytical procedures on the financial statements and reports for the detection of material misstatements of the Jordanian commercial banks. The impact of independent variables (profitability, liquidity, capital solvency and the employment of funds ratios) on the dependent variable (the detection of material misstatements) was measured. The dependent variable is represented by the earnings management, which is measured by the discretionary accruals. The quantitative standard method was used to analyse the financial statements and analytical procedures; moreover, the Jones Model was used to measure earnings management. Additionally, the multivariate linear regression model was used to test the hypothesis of the study, and to indicate the relationships between the variables. The study population consisted of five Jordanian commercial banks. The data was collected from 2011 to 2017. This study concluded that there is no statistically significant impact of the analytical procedures relating to the ratios of liquidity, profitability, solvency, and employment of funds that the external auditor could undertake to discover material misstatement of the financial statements of Jordanian commercial banks. Finally, the study recommended that auditors should be highly competent and deeply knowledgeable in using the analytical procedures to judge the fairness of financial data and be free of material misstatements.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47971210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Level and pace of the regional development of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the context of integration into the European union","authors":"Vanes Tulumović","doi":"10.32910/ep.71.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.71.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this paper is to assess the level and\u0000pace of regional development of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the one hand, and the\u0000Euro-Atlantic path of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a potential candidate for EU\u0000membership on the other. In the empirical part of the research, the spatial\u0000component encompassed the regionalization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The\u0000research also included an analysis of the process of the integration of Bosnia\u0000and Herzegovina into the European Union from the aspect of pre-accession\u0000assistance to candidate countries and potential candidates in the function of\u0000promoting regional development. The primary research of regional development\u0000and assessment of the level of development as well as the scope of structural\u0000policies in overcoming the key political, social and economic problems that\u0000hinder the development and improvement of the economic integration of Bosnia\u0000and Herzegovina towards the European Union are limited to the territory of\u0000Bosnia and Herzegovina. The basic scientific methods used in the work and for giving\u0000answers to research questions are historical and comparative methods. They\u0000consist of methods and indicators of statistical analysis (indices, growth\u0000rates, participation rates, coefficients, averages). Specific scientific\u0000methods used in the process of this work are: the method of analysis, the synthesis\u0000method, the induction method, the descriptor method, the deduction method, the\u0000classification method and the comparison method. The empirical results of the\u0000research confirm that Bosnia and Herzegovina is faced with the problem of\u0000regional development with a pronounced imbalance between the areas within the\u0000whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is a confirmation for the need\u0000for systemic policy as well as regional development policy at the level of\u0000Bosnia and Herzegovina that would be in line with the policies of the European\u0000Union.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48573994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nawaf Alghusin, A. A. Alsmadi, Esra'a Alkhatib, Atala M. Alqtish
{"title":"The impact of financial policy on economic growth in Jordan (2000-2017)","authors":"Nawaf Alghusin, A. A. Alsmadi, Esra'a Alkhatib, Atala M. Alqtish","doi":"10.32910/ep.71.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.71.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine the\u0000impact of financial policy on rate of economic growth in Jordan for the period\u0000of (2000-2017) taking into the considerations the fluctuations of taxation\u0000system. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach has been utilized in\u0000order to analyze the long term relationship between study variable which are;\u0000money supply (M2), domestic credit provided by banks (DCBS) and real Gross\u0000Domestic Product GDP. The results shows that, money (M2) and domestic\u0000credit provided by banks (DCBS) can effects on GDP in Jordan for the study\u0000period. The taxation system in Jordan has been fluctuated many times during\u00002017 and 2018, which made the data partly not available. This led the\u0000researchers to spend long time to find an accurate data in order to\u0000finalize this study. This study\u0000will add good practical evidence on the impact of changing the taxation system\u0000positively or negatively on the economic growth.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49094495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milan Deskar-Škrbić, Ana Grdović Gnip, Hrvoje Šimović
{"title":"Makroekonomski učinci diskrecijskih izmjena u sustavu poreza na dodanu vrijednost (PDV) u Hrvatskoj","authors":"Milan Deskar-Škrbić, Ana Grdović Gnip, Hrvoje Šimović","doi":"10.32910/ep.73.6.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.73.6.3","url":null,"abstract":"Kao najizdašniji porezni oblik u hrvatskom poreznom sustavu porez na dodanu vrijednost (PDV) je od uvođenja 1998. godine zabilježio niz diskrecijskih izmjena. Neke izmjene su bile motivirane potrebom za fiskalnom konsolidacijom, neke prilagodbom zakonodavstvu EU, a neke željom nositelja politike da ublaže učinke njegove regresivnosti ili da potaknu pojedinu gospodarsku aktivnost. S obzirom na važnu ulogu PDV-a u poreznom sustavu te sklonost nositelja politike da relativno često pristupaju izmjenama u sustavu PDV-a, u ovom radu se istražuje učinak diskrecijskih izmjena u sustavu PDV-a na kretanje BDP-a i osobne potrošnje, na temelju tzv. narativnog pristupa. U ovom radu originalni Romer i Romer (2010) narativni pristup prilagođava kako bi se u analizu uključili i učinci eksternih šokova koji u slučaju Hrvatske, kao malog otvorenog gospodarstva, značajno utječu na makroekonomska kretanja. Rezultati pokazuju kako je smanjenje domaće potražnje uslijed povećanja poreznog opterećenja PDV-om statistički značajno do osmog kvartala od šoka te doseže razinu od 4% u četvrtom kvartalu. Reakcija osobne potrošnje je statistički značajna samo u prvoj godini te povećanje poreza od 1% dovodi do smanjenja osobne potrošnje nešto više od 1%.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oil volatility pass through and real exchange misalignment in leading commodity exporting countries","authors":"N. Rubino","doi":"10.32910/EP.71.6.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/EP.71.6.2","url":null,"abstract":"Past research has shown how real Exchange rates follow a univariate nonlinear process that approximates their behavior in terms of transaction costs. However, little or nothing has been said about alternative sources of nonlinearity in commodity exporting countries. Our paper investigates the missing link between the Real Exchange Rate Commodity Prices equilibrium by employing an oil price volatility measure as an external source of short-term fluctuations. Our estimates show that the Real Exchange Rate Commodity price relationship appears to be nonlinear with respect to oil price variation, and that the goodness of fit of the nonlinear specifications appears to outperform that of the equivalent linear models. The equilibrium speed of adjustment appears to be different in the two branches of the relationship: in the majority of the threshold models, the negative volatility regime presents a faster speed of adjustment and in some cases a most significant one.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69443942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Univerzalni temeljni dohodak","authors":"Darko Tipurić, Željko Garača, Ana Krajnović","doi":"10.32910/EP.71.6.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32910/EP.71.6.4","url":null,"abstract":"Globalna ekonomska kriza uzrokovana pandemijom koronavirusa dodatno je potaknula interes za univerzalni temeljni dohodak (UTD). Zagovornici smatraju da UTD, osim što smanjuje razinu siromaštva i ekonomsku nejednakost, može biti koristan instrument za ublažavanje posljedica krize i istovremeno bitno uporište u izgradnji posve drugačije ekonomske i socijalne paradigme. UTD je onkraj ekonomskih politika i pitanje je moralne i društvene opredijeljenosti; on je istovremeno i program i ideal koji korjenito mijenja društvo osnažujući uzajamnu odgovornost i solidarnost, jačajući povjerenja u institucije. Primjena UTD-a postavlja pravednost kao uporište socijalne zbilje; povezuju se kategorije ekonomske i socijalne vrijednosti i narušavaju uvriježene pretpostavke o povezanosti rada, kapitala i blagostanja. U radu su prikazane osnovne značajke UTD-a i neke zapreke u njegovoj implementaciji. Raspravlja se o mogućoj ulozi koje temeljni dohodak može imati u promjenama u strukturi zaposlenosti i produktivnosti koje donosi Četvrta industrijska revolucija i navode se primjeri država koje su oblikovale pilot projekte prilagođenog UTD-a prema različitim modelima. Prikazane su kritike koncepta, između ostalih, da UTD narušava počela racionalnog ekonomskog ponašanja i intrinzični smisao koji rad donosi ljudima; problem zbog moralne aberacije odnosno neprikladnosti uloge države da potpuno preuzme odgovornost od pojedinca za pokriće nužnih troškova života; isto kao i problem golemih troškova koje države mogu imati u oblikovanju i provedbi UTD programa a što se u krajnjoj instanci reflektira u mogućem povećanju poreza ili inflatornim rizicima. Posebna pozornost u radu je posvećena pitanju ekonomske održivosti UTD.","PeriodicalId":53985,"journal":{"name":"Ekonomski Pregled","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69443994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}