Biljana Jovanovikj

Biljana Jovanovikj
Economist

email: jovanovikj@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-85

Biljana Jovanovikj is Economist at wiiw with extensive research experience in a wide array of topics, such as monetary policy, economic growth, macroeconomic forecasting, productivity and firm behaviour. Her most recent research is focused on tobacco taxation and determinants of smoking initiation. Previously, she has worked as a researcher and an adviser at the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia from 2007 to 2021. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the Staffordshire university, Stoke-on-Trent and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Economics – Skopje.

Austria, Vienna

List of Publications

External Publications wiiw Publications

External Publications

Articles in refereed journals
  • 'Ease of Doing Business and FDI in the Ex-Socialist Countries' (with Branimir Jovanović), International Economics and Economic Policy, Vol. 15, Issue 3, July 2018, pp. 587–627
  • 'Transmission Channels of the Global Economic Crisis: Micro Evidence for the Republic of Macedonia' (with Ljupka Georgievska), Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2015, pp. 5-20
Other working papers and discussion series
  • 'Impact of Cigarette Prices and Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Initiation among Adolescents: Evidence from North Macedonia' (with Kristijan Kozeski, Bojana Mijovic Hristovska and Tamara Mijovic Spasova), Tobacconomics Working Paper Series, Paper No. 23/10/2, October 2023
  • 'Inequality in Times of Corona – Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Macedonian Economy (in Macedonian)' (with Branimir Jovanović, Viktor Mitevski and Viktor Stojkoski), Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Policy Brief, 2021
  • 'Minimum wage reform and firms’ performance – evidence from North Macedonia' (with Nikola Naumovski), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 2, 2021
  • 'Income-specific inflation rates and the effects of monetary policy: the case of North Macedonia' (with Marko Josimovski), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 1, 2021
  • 'Export and firms’ performance in North Macedonia: self selection or learning by doing?', National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 1, 2020
  • 'Productivity analysis by using firm-level data: the case of Macedonia', National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 5, 2018
  • 'The elasticity of tobacco products in Macedonia', Analytica - Thinking Laboratory, Policy Report, 2018
  • 'Forecasting Macedonian Inflation: Evaluation of different models for short-term forecasting' (with Nikola Naumovski, Magdalena Petrovska and Gani Ramadani), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 6/2017, 2017
  • 'The Optimal Level of Foreign Reserves in Macedonia' (with Danica Unevska), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 5/2017, 2017
  • 'Overview of the Macedonian Policy Analysis Model (MAKPAM)' (with Sultanija Bojceva Terzijan, Tibor Hlédik and Rilind Kabashi), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper No. 4, 2016
  • 'Various Methods to Potential Output and Output Gap Estimation - the Case of Macedonia (in Macedonian)' (with Rilind Kabashi), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, Working Paper, March 2011

wiiw Publications

wiiw Policy Notes and Reports
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine, Ukrainian Version: Аналіз фіскального та медичного впливу підвищення акцизів на тютюнові вироби в Україні' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Nóra Kungl and Hana Ross), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Nóra Kungl and Hana Ross), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
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