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Nina Vujanović

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Economist

email: vujanovic@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-86

Nina Vujanović is an economist at wiiw, researching topics on international trade, foreign direct investment, and the Balkans. She previously worked as an advisor to the Vice Governor at the Central bank of Montenegro, as a consultant at UNCTAD (Division on Investment and Enterprise) and a research fellow at the WTO (Economic Research and Statistic Division). She published papers in the area of foreign direct investment, productivity, innovation as well as credit risk. She holds a PhD in International Economics from Staffordshire University and Msc in Economic Policy from University College London.

Austria, Vienna

External Publications

• 'The Impact of the Green and Digital Transition on Regional Cohesion in Europe' (with Ambre Maucorps, Roman Römisch and Thomas Schwab), Intereconomics, Volume 58, Number 2, 2023, pp. 102–110
• 'FDI spillover effects on innovation activities of knowledge using and knowledge creating firms: Evidence from an emerging economy' (with Iraj Hashi, Mehtap Hisarciklilar, Slavo Radošević and Nebojša Stojčić), Elsevier, Technovation, Volume 118, 2022, In progress (December 2022)
• 'Forecasting Global FDI: A Panel Data Approach' (with Richard Bolwijn and Bruno Casella), SSRN Transnational Corporations Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, 18 August 2021, pp. 856-874
• 'Technological Trends in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors. The Case of Montenegro', sciendo South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Volume 16, Issue 1, June 2021, pp. 120 - 133
• 'FDI spillovers and firm productivity during crisis: Empirical evidence from transition economies' (with Iraj Hashi and Nebojša Stojčić), Elsevier Economic Systems, Volume 45, Issue 2, June 2021
• 'Does market competition affect all banks equally? Empirical evidence on Montenegro' (with Nikola Fabris), sciendo Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2021, pp. 87 - 107
• 'The Impact of Financial Dollarization on Inflation Targeting: Empirical Evidence from Serbia' (with Nikola Fabris), sciendo Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2017, pp. 23 - 43

• 'Regional economic cooperation in the Western Balkans: Successes, failures, and new approaches' (with Richard Grieveson and Branimir Jovanović), Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2022, Chapter 8, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2022, pp. 458-470
• 'The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and its economic implications' (with Robert Stehrer), in: Ernest Gnan, Christoph Schneider and Claudia Stowasser (eds), Schwerpunkt Außenwirtschaft 2021/2022, Reglobalisation: Changing patterns, Österreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (WKO), 2022, pp 207-210

• 'FIW-Spotlight: Entwicklung des Handels mit den RCEP-Staaten', Research Centre International Economics (FIW), FIW-Blog, 6 February 2023

• 'Trends and drivers of global value chains and the role of MNEs in the recent wave of globalisation ' (with Luca Bettarelli, Calogero Brancatelli, Simona Comi, Louise Curran, Bernhard Dachs, Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Mahdi Ghodsi, Mara Grasseni, Francesca Guadagno, Ferry Koster, Michael Landesmann, Laura Resmini, Alissa Van Zijl, Anna Wolfmayr and Zuzana Zavarská), in: Francesca Guadagno, Michael Landesmann and Zuzana Zavarská (eds), TWIN SEEDS, Work Package 1, 2023
• 'Estimation of pontential growth of Montengro using the production function and the Kalman filters'' (with Maja Ivanović), Central Bank of Montenegro, Working Paper, No. 31, Podgorica, 2022
• 'The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement: Economic implications for the EU27 and Austria' (with Robert Stehrer), FIW, No. 54, January 2022
• 'Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Economy and Banking System of Montenegro' (with Maja Ivanović, Milica Kilibarda and Ana Vlahović), CBCG Central Bank of Montenegro, Working Paper, No. 29, 2021
• 'Applying HP Filter in Loans and Deposits in Montenegro' (with Maja Ivanović), CBCG Central Bank of Montenegro, Working Paper, No. 25, 2016
• 'Montenegro's Economy SWOT Analysis' (with Boris Kilibarda and Verica Miljić), CBCG Central Bank of Montenegro, Working Paper, No. 24, 2016

wiiw Publications

• 'MONTENEGRO: A new era ahead', Sailing Through Rough Waters, wiiw Forecast Report, No. Spring 2023, Vienna, April 2023, pp. 88-91
• 'MONTENEGRO: Paralysed judicial system hampers EU integration progress', Bracing for the Winter, wiiw Forecast Report, No. Autumn 2022, Vienna, October 2022, pp. 113-116
• 'MONTENEGRO: Mired in uncertainty', Overshadowed by War and Sanctions, wiiw Forecast Report, No. Spring 2022, Vienna, April 2022, pp. 91-94

• 'Montenegro: Tourism and the energy sector support growth', in: Vasily Astrov and Richard Grieveson (eds), Monthly Report No. 7-8/2023, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 7-8, Vienna, July-August 2023, p. 44
• 'Deriving the underlying FDI trend in CESEE', in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 5/2023 - FDI in Central, East and Southeast Europe, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 5, Vienna, May 2023, pp. 35-38
• 'Montenegro: Growing, despite instability', in: Vasily Astrov and Richard Grieveson (eds), Monthly Report No. 1/2023, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 1, Vienna, January 2023, p. 37
• 'Montenegro: Inflation will weigh on growth', in: Vasily Astrov and Richard Grieveson (eds), Monthly Report No. 7-8/2022, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 7-8, Vienna, July-August 2022, p. 43
• 'EU investment in China: past, present and ways ahead', in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 03/2022, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 3, Vienna, March 2022, pp. 14-21
• 'Montenegro: Ambitious economic reform increases both optimism and the fiscal risks', in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 1/2022, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 1, Vienna, January 2022, p. 51

• 'The Future of EU Cohesion - Effects of the Twin Transition on Disparities across European Regions' (with Ambre Maucorps, Roman Römisch and Thomas Schwab), Bertelsmann Stiftung (eds), wiiw Research Report, No. 467, Vienna, May 2023
• 'CEFTA: Trade and Growth Patterns Fifteen Years since Establishment', wiiw Research Report, No. 466, Vienna, April 2023

• 'Can Multinationals Withstand Growing Trade Barriers?' (with Mahdi Ghodsi and Michael Landesmann), wiiw Working Paper, No. 239, Vienna, January 2024
• 'Who Learns More from Afar? Spatial Empirical Evidence on Manufacturing and Services', wiiw Working Paper, No. 224, Vienna, February 2023
• 'What Drives Credit Risk? Empirical Evidence from Southeast Europe' (with Nikola Fabris), wiiw Working Paper, No. 214, Vienna, May 2022
• 'FDI Spillover Effects on Innovation Activities of Knowledge-using and Knowledge-creating Firms: Evidence from an Emerging Economy' (with Iraj Hashi, Mehtap Hisarciklilar, Slavo Radošević and Nebojša Stojčić), wiiw Working Paper, No. 213, Vienna, March 2022

• 'Towards Effective Industrial Policy in the Western Balkans' (with Branimir Jovanović), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 66, Vienna, February 2023

• 'Green and digital transformation will widen the gap between poor and rich regions in the EU' (with Ambre Maucorps and Roman Römisch), wiiw Opinion Piece, Vienna, June 2023

• 'Keeping friends closer: Why the EU should address new geoeconomic realities and get its neighbours back in the fold' (with Vasily Astrov, Richard Grieveson, Christian Hanelt, Branimir Jovanović, Artem Kochnev, Miriam Kosmehl, Isilda Mara, Markus Overdiek, Thieß Petersen, Olga Pindyuk, Oliver Reiter and Stefani Weiss), Joint Study , No. 2023-02, Vienna, February 2023