Economic and Financial Challenges for Balkan and Eastern European Countries

Political Risk Complementarity Between Business Economics and International Relations.- The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: Empirical Analyses for Western Balkan Countries.- Inflation and Economic Growth in Turkey.- Distance as Determinant of FDI in Transition Countries.- The Financial Services Exports of China and the Role of RMB.- The Succession in SME's.- Innovativeness of Serbian Enterprises as a Factor of Competitiveness Improvement at the International Market.- Electric Energy Sector in Turkey and Energy Trading Between Turkey and Balkan Countries.- Profitability Determinants of Insurance Companies in the Republic of Serbia.- Instruments for Financing Damage in Animal Production in Poland and the European Union.- Determinants of Demand for Private Voluntary Health Insurance.- Healthcare Goods and Services.- The Path for Introducing Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) in Albanian Healthcare.- On a Bertrand Dynamic Game with Differentiated Goods, Heterogeneous Expectationsand Asymmetric Cost Functions.- Forecasting Meal Requirements Using Time Series Methods in Organization.- The Upcoming Role of the Enterprise Architect.- A Hierarchical Analysis of Internet Adoption and Usage by the Seniors.- What Happened in Turkey after Booking.Com Limitation: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets via Text Mining.- Sentiment Analysis of How Turkish Customers Effect from Paypal Closure.- What Is the Priority of the Political Rhetoric of the Russian Presidents.

Marietta Janowicz-Lomott is an Associate Professor at the Department of Risk and Insurance Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. He is the author of several dozen scientific publications in the fields of finance, insurance and risk management.

Krzysztof Lyskawa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Insurance, Poznan University of Economics, Poland. He has worked in academia, the private sector and associations, and his research and professional activities focus on risk management, property insurance, pension schemes, and life insurance. He has also worked in various brokerage companies since 1998.

Persefoni Polychronidou is an Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics in Accounting and Finance at the International Hellenic University. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR). Her research focuses on statistical and data analysis and she has published numerous papers on empirical economic data.

Anastasios Karasavvoglou is a Professor of Economics and President of the Annual International Conference "The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World". He has published numerous books and papers on immigration, regional development and the labor market.