Economic and Financial Challenges for Eastern Europe

Financial Crisis and Brain Drain: An Investigation of the Emigration Intentions of Greek Scientists.- Complexity in a Bertrand Duopoly Game with Heterogeneous Players and Differentiated Goods.- A Performance Measurement System for Staff of the Logistics Section - A Case Study for an Oil & Gas Company.- Banks' Income Smoothing in the Basel Period - Evidence from European Union.- Evaluating Consumer Perception and Expectations and Assessing the Service Quality Gap in Greek Banking in a Period of Finical Crisis and Capital Controls.- The Role of Tertiary Education in Regional Development in Greece.- The Importance of Trade with the Balkan Countries for Turkey.- Barriers in the Calculation of Residual Income in Slovak Companies.- Social Choice and Multicriterion Decision-Making: Decision Modeling Career of Students in Secondary Education Using Multi-Criteria Analysis.- Greek Banks Abroad: A Historic Examination.- Corporate Financial Modelling Using Quantitative Methods.- Using Principal Component Analysis in Assessing Client's Creditworthiness.- The Way Out From Public Sector's Labyrinth of Inefficiency? Alternative Governance Performance and Prospects in Greece.- Competitiveness of the Greek Economy: Before and After the Crisis.- Development of an Insurance Market in "Pigs" Countries After the Crisis.- Usage Evaluation Through Data Analysis of the Greek Tax Information System.- Urban Development.- The Impact of Communication Quality, Partner Complementarity and Foreign Partner's Cultural Sensitivity on Inter-Partner Trust in Isas.- Digital Practices of Greek Small Entrepreneurship: Social Media and Self-Employment.- The Conversion of ank Deferred Tax Assets in 2016 to Bank Shares in 2017.- Quality Assurance in Education: An Inquiry Into Transformational School Leadership.- The Impact of the Destination Image of Greece on Tourists' Behavioral Intentions.- A Differential Equations Analysis of Stock Prices.- Cash Conversion Cycle and Firms Performance.

Nicos Sykianakis is a professor of accounting at the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Department of Accounting and Finance. He has also taught at the Athens University of Economics and Business and at the Hellenic Open University. His Ph.D thesis explored FDI projects in the Balkans. Currently his academic interests focus on auditing and financial statement analysis.



Persefoni Polychronidou is an assistant professor of applied econometrics in accounting and finance at the Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia's Department of Accounting and Finance. 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 labour market.