Efficiency issues become even more sensitive for post-communist European countries and for Albania as well, as their economies have created relatively new financial systems being currently of little experience, moreover when they become part of EU. Their survival requires them among others, to...

Efficiency issues become even more sensitive for post-communist European countries and for Albania as well, as their economies have created relatively new financial systems being currently of little experience, moreover when they become part of EU. Their survival requires them among others, to...

The general belief that some degree of market power in the banking sector was necessary to maintain its market stability, has led many countries into attending policies that implicitly or explicitly limit competition. Such policies have modified the banking market structure raising concerns...

This paper develops a comprehensive framework of the main hypothesis tested whether the private returns to investment in education in Albania are sufficient to provide economic incentives for a high participation rate in post-compulsory schooling. We use cross section data from the Living...

Competition policy in the banking sector is complicated by the necessity of maintaining financial stability. Greater competition may be good for (static) efficiency, but bad for financial stability. The issues regarding banking competition and its effects are of particular interest in transition...

Efficiency issues become even more sensitive for post-communist European countries and for Albania as well, as their economies have created relatively new financial systems being currently of little experience, moreover when they become part of EU. Their survival requires them among others, to...