Applied economics for development : empirical approaches to selected social and economic issues in transition economies

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Tourism Development - Economic Growth Nexus, an Empirical Application on Transition Countries -- 2 Analyzing the Shadow Economy of Selected Transition Economies by a Mimic Model -- 3 Neoliberal Transformation and Practices of Privatization in Transition Economies -- 4 The Impact of FDI on Economic Growth in Transition Countries: a Panel Quantile Regression Approach -- 5 The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Tax Revenues: Evidence from Selected Transition Economies -- 6 Evaluation of FDI Attractiveness of Selected Transition Economies: An Analytic Network Process Based BOCR Approach -- 7 Analysis of the Relationship between Socialand Economic Indicators of Selected Transition Countries by Canonical Correlation Analysis -- 8 Urbanization and ZÔÉ Emission in Transition Economies: A Neural Network Approach -- 9 An Empirical Approach to Consumption of Renewable Energy Sources in Transition Economies -- 10 The Investigation of Female Labor Force Indicators by Using Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling Analysis -- 11 The Economic Preferences Necessary for Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap: An Analysis on Selected Transition Economies -- 12 Measuring Quality of Life in Transition Economies: Mimic Model Approach -- Conclusion -- Index.