IBAC 2012
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2024-03-28T12:21:08ZIBAC 2012 Book of Proceedings
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IBAC 2012 Book of Proceedings
Çınar, Bekir
The 2nd International Balkan Conference (IBAC 2012): ‘The Balkans at a Crossroads: Evaluating Past, Reading Present, Imagining Future’ on 11-14 October 2012 in Tirana; organized by Istanbul University in collaboration with the University of Tirana and Epoka University.
2013-07-15T00:00:00ZSEATOURISM INALBANIA
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SEATOURISM INALBANIA
Adem Yulu; Istanbul University
The Albania, by it's geographical position,favorable climatic conditions and by the undiscovered natural beauty and rich historical back ground has a significant potential for tourism. The development of tourismin Albania was commenced in 1929, andstarted by the "Royal Motor Tourist Clup". The basic purpose of this organization was the "Visits for Business Purposes". Most of the participants were comingfrom the neighboring countries.However,due to the management of the Albania's communist government that had dominated the country for many years and the closure of the country's had affected adversely on the visitings to the country.However,since the early 1990's and due to changing management and the administration's approach to the outer World had began to open the country to the outside. Thus, each passing year,the interest on the Albania's tourism destinations continued to grow. Today, the tourism activities in the Albania is steadily developing and gaining varieties.The Albania hasa totallength of420km ofcoastlines, as on the Adriaticin the west and on the Ionian Seaat the southwest and to be lived long and hot summer seasons and with the depending on the existence of rich geographical sources, the tourism activities in the country is becoming a major phenomenon.Especially in the densely populatedand economically developed parts of the country, such as the Adriatic coasts area little more developed then the others, in terms of the tourism.The cities in various sizes, such as Durres, Vlora and Saranda are the major touristic destinations considering by the bays, caves,towns and the villages in the Albania.However,the level of the expected developments of the tourism activities has not reached yet, to the wished stages in this country.
2013-07-15T00:00:00ZTHE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION PROCESS ON THE PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS IN BALKAN COUNTRIES
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION PROCESS ON THE PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS IN BALKAN COUNTRIES
Sinem Yargic
According to the Copenhagen political criteria, any candidate who want to be amember of the European Union must achieve the stability of institutionsguaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for andprotection of minorities. The European Union accession process contributed to theprotection of human rights and minority rights in some of the Balkan countrieswhich had entered to the European Union especially in the latest round ofenlargement such as Bulgaria and Romania. These important/positive examples ofthe past enlargement process should also be taken into consideration by the othercandidate and potential candidate Balkan countries who want to accede to the EU.
2013-07-15T00:00:00ZCURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT SUSTAINABILITY IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES
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CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT SUSTAINABILITY IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES
Nilgun Cil Yavuz; Burcu Kiran
The current account balance represents the most important measurement of acountry's economic performance and it is important to keep the current account deficit within sustainable levels. Over the last decade, the importance of asustainable current account deficit has been major concern of policy makers and investors. In this paper, we investigate the sustainability of the current account deficit in transition countries over the period from 1995:01 through 2011:03, using intertemporal solvency model. According to this approach, the existence of aco integrating relationship between exports and imports + (including imports, netinterest payments and net transfer payments) gives that countries do not violate their intertemporal budget constraint. To achieve our objective, the cointegration test which recently developed in the presence of two potentially unknown structural breaks, is carried out. These breaks are taken into account in our analysis by considering that the long run relationship between related series might change andthe shifts can occur in the cointegrating vector. The obtained results suggest that there is evidence of cointegration for selected transition countries, implying sustainability.
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