Athanasios Koulakiotis,University of the Aegean (2008)
Zeljko Bogetic, The World Bank, Jwyang Jiawen Yang, The George, Christos Giannikos, Hector Lozada, ...
Cornelis A. Los, Kazakh-British Technical University (2008)
Adrian M. Steinberg, Wissenschaftlicher Forscher, Bansi Sawhney, Jwyang Jiawen Yang, The George, Zeljko Bogetic, ...
journal that addresses both applied and theoretical issues. The scope of the journal encompasses
Russian economic report No.16 (June 2008), The World Bank (2008)
Bogetic, Zeljko, Ulatov, Sergey, Emelyanova, Olga, Smits, Karlis
Russia’s short-term economic growth has accelerated above its long term trend, defying weak global conditions. In 2007, the economy grew by 8.1 percent on the heels of very high (and perhaps...
Cornelis A. Los, Kazakh-British Technical University (2008)
Adrian M. Steinberg, Wissenschaftlicher Forscher, Bansi Sawhney, Jwyang Jiawen Yang, The George, Zeljko Bogetic, ...
Zeljko Bogetic, Centrg Msa, Comuny Dqamnet, I Mu
Bogetid and Hassan analyze the distribution of income income inequality at both the national and sectoral and of the income tax burden by income and (rural-urban) le ecl, as the poor pay a smaller...
EFFECTS OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION: EXAMPLE FROM BULGARIA (1996)
HASSAN, FAREED M. A., BOGETIC, ZELJKO
This study utilizes the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey to analyze the distribution of income and income tax burden. Results indicate that the country is characterized by low income...
Forecasting investment needs in South Africa's electricity and telecommunications sectors
Bogetic, Zeljko, Fedderke, Johannes W.
The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth...
Reforming health care : a case for stay well health insurance
Bogetic, Zeljko, Heffley, Dennis
All countries - whether industrial, developing, or in transition to a market economy - are interested in health care reform. A central focus of reform everywhere is to make patients more responsive...
Determinants of value - added tax revenue : a cross section analysis
Bogetic, Zeljko, Hassan, Fareed
Value-added tax (VAT) has become a major tax instrument in over 50 countries and an important element in tax policy advice to developing countries. But few studies have empirically tested some basic...
Efficiency in Bulgaria's schools : a nonparametric study
Bogetic, Zeljko, Chattophadyay, Sajal
In Eastern European countries in large social sectors such as education, inefficiency and technical deficiencies are the legacy of the old command economy. The authors examine the technical...
Determinants of public expenditure on infrastructure : transportation and communication
Randolph, Susan, Bogetic, Zeljko, Hefley, Dennis
The authors empirically study factors that influence public investment in transportation and communication infrastructure. Using data for 1980-86 for 27 economies, they assess the influence of...
International benchmarking of Lesotho's infrastructure performance
The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology, and road...
International benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance
Bogetic, Zeljko, Fedderke, Johannes W.
The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication...
Distribution of income and the income tax burden in Bulgaria
Bogetic, Zeljko, Hassan, Fareed M. A.
Using the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey, the authors analyze the distribution of income and of the income tax burden by income and expenditure class and by rural-urban sector. They find: 1)...
Bogetic, Zeljko, Fedderke, Johannes W.
The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in...
Current and forthcoming issues in the South African electricity sector
Kessides, Ioannis N., Bogetic, Zeljko, Maurer, Luiz
One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in...
Achieving accelerated and shared growth in Ghana : a MAMS-based analysis of costs and opportunities
Bogetic, Zeljko, Bussolo, Maurizio, Medvedev, Denis
This paper relies on the recently developed Maquette for Millennium Development Goals Simulations (MAMS) model to assess the consistency of alternative scaling-up and policy packages for growth and...
The tax base in transition : the case of Bulgaria
Bogetic, Zeljko, Hillman, Arye L.
The transition from socialism characteristically reduces existing tax revenues at the same time that it increases the need for government spending. An increasing need for revenue combined with an...
Cote d'Ivoire : competitiveness, Cocoa, and the real exchange rate
Bogetic, Zeljko, Espina, Carlos, Noer, John
This paper explores competitiveness of Cote d'Ivoire's economy over a long period of 1960-2003 and its link with cocoa prices. The main conclusions are as follows. First, using four measures of real...
Cote d'Ivoire : from success to failure a story of growth, specialization, and the terms of trade
Bogetic, Zeljko, Noer, John, Espina, Carlos
Real GDP per capita and capital stock in Cote d'Ivoire grew strongly from 1960 to 1979, but have declined ever since, for twenty-five years. As a result, the country has traveled a full circle from...
Cote d'ivoire volatility, shocks and growth
Bogetic, Zeljko, Espina, Carlos, Noer, John
Key economic variables in Cote d'Ivoire vary widely from their long-run trends, moving in multi-year cyclical patterns. Cocoa prices move with cycles in growth rates, capital stock, real exchange...
The paper reviews the salient features of officially dollarized economies (with particular reference to Panama) and discusses costs and benefits of official dollarization. Also, the paper reviews...
Full Dollarization: Fad or Future? Challenge (March 2000).
As more nations in the Western Hemisphere consider adopting the U.S. dollar as their own major currency, this IMF economist separates fact from fiction concerning dollarization. How will the...
Seignirage Sharing and Dollarization, Central Banking (U.K.), Vol. X, No.4, 77-88.
Dollarization is becoming a viable option for a number of countries, but the loss of seigniorage is a major obstacle. The paper looks at the major seigniorage sharing arrangements available and...
The Calculus of Dollarization, Central Banking (U.K.), Vol.XI, No. 2, (November 2000), 45-58.
The paper compares the costs and benefits of dollarization for the dollarizing country and the 'anchor' country.
The article provides a fresh look at employee ownership as a method of privatization and discusses theoretical and incentives effects and recent experiences in Eastern and Central Europe.
Personal Income Tax Reform and Revenue Potential in Transition
The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of...
Zeljko Bogetic, Johannes Fedderke
The paper provides three principal results. First, we benchmark South African infrastructure performance in terms of access, pricing, and quality against key comparator groups of countries using the...
Meeting government revenue needs without inhibiting private sector development is a key challenge of tax policy during the transition from the socialist system. The paper explores issues in the...
The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria...
Recent contributions in economic geography reflect renewed interest in issues of location and spatial concentration of economic activities, yet there are still few empirical studies of developing...
The paper measures economic loss from the problem of inadequate collateral in Bulgaria and proposes solutions consisting of creation of security interests, perfection, and enforcement.
The paper demonstrates a potential theoretical problem in achieving general equilibrium in an economy composed of firms maximizing income per worker; a problem which suggests that disequilibria in a...
Reply to professor Vanek's comment on Bogetic's paper in the same issue of the Economic Analysis and Workers' Management.
Effects of Personal Income Tax on Income Distribution: Example from Bulgaria.
Hassan, Fareed M A, Bogetic, Zeljko
This study utilizes the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey to analyze the distribution of income and income tax burden. Results indicate that the country is characterized by low income...
Russian economic report No.16 (June 2008), The World Bank
Bogetic, Zeljko, Ulatov, Sergey, Emelyanova, Olga, Smits, Karlis
Russia’s short-term economic growth has accelerated above its long term trend, defying weak global conditions. In 2007, the economy grew by 8.1 percent on the heels of very high (and perhaps...
Current Trends in the Russian Financial System
Stephan Barisitz, Zeljko Bogetic, Zuzana Fungacova, Laura Solanko, Peter Havlik, Valery Invushin, ...
The papers in the present SUERF Study is a selection of the papers presented at a SUERF Workshop and Special OeNB East Jour Fixe held at Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna on 23 January 2009. In...