Due to the significant share of mortgage loans in the portfolio structure of a large number of commercial banks, monitoring the ability of the household sector to repay debts is very important for financial stability. Since the accumulation of non-performing loans in banks' balance sheets is...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors that determine the gender pension gap in Europe. In particular, we focus on understanding how and which risk factors create the pension gap among the two genders. To extract the risk factors that determine the gender pension in Europe, we...

COVID-19 pandemic continues to produce substantial effects in various spheres of life in the world. This process is expected to change the attitude and behavior of the society especially by forcing to adopt some technologies, digital means that have not been used before, to keep the social...

Franchising as a business model is present in the global economy in the current form from the 1950-ties and from the moment Ray Kroc started with McDonald's franchising system. Worldwide, this business model has proven itself an excellent way to grow and geographic expansion of the business....

In this paper, we test Granger causality in VAR environment of the State Budget's capital expenditures on the GDP. There is no doubt that capital expenditures for infrastructure projects, energetic, communications and similar have direct and indirect impact on the GDP growth, but non-essential...

The aim of the paper is to identify the main factors that affect tourism development of Ohrid (North Macedonia) from the three-pillar sustainability dimension (socio-cultural, environmental and economic). Based on 630 questionnaires collected from residents in January 2020, exploratory factor...

Women have a great influence in all spheres of the society that is continuously growing nowadays, with their significant professional achievements even in certain sectors that were reserved for men. The development of women entrepreneurship varies in different parts of the world depending on the...

From the early 2000s, with the rapid expansion and increasing complexity of supply chains, the logistics literature has frequently referred to "the seven rights of logistics (7Rs)" that linked business logistics to the key strategic objectives of cost competitiveness, quality, flexibility, and...

Extent of online purchases of goods and services is nowadays rapidly growing part of the modern economy. It is connected to rapid changes in the commerce as well as in the way of life of entire population. In this paper the influence of important factors on online purchases in South East...