Macedonia’s economy is under-performing. The unemployment rate is constantly one of the largest in Europe; and, almost one third of the population lives below the poverty line. Reforms have been put in place, but they have not done enough to solve the key problems. The present paper applies the...

This paper empirically examines the determinants and differences of the short-run lending rate stickiness among banks in Macedonia by using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression model (SUR). For that purpose, eight bank balance sheet items, two macroeconomic variables and an indicator for the level...