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Papers by Nina Ponikvar

Research paper thumbnail of Global Public Goods in Light of the New Paradigm of Sustainable Development under the Challenges Facing Today’s World

BRILL eBooks, Oct 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect Of Financial Constraints On Firm Exit: Discriminating Among Alternative Exit Modes

Research paper thumbnail of How to Measure Our Impact on Society: An Illustration of Social Impact Analysis

Dynamic relationships management journal, Nov 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Development of Global Public Goods Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Global Economy Journal, Aug 2, 2023

Global public goods (GPGs) have been moving to the focus of discussion in international organisat... more Global public goods (GPGs) have been moving to the focus of discussion in international organisations due to globalisation, deepening economic integration, and technological advancements. We provide an overview of the research field of GPGs by conducting a bibliometric analysis for the period from 1993 to 2021. The increasing number of publications and citations of articles dealing with GPGs in the Web of Science is particularly noteworthy in the last decade. Publications on GPGs related to climate change experienced the largest relative growth. Analysis of the co-occurrence networks on authors’ keywords revealed that the focus of GPG research shifted between the 1993–2008 and 2009–2021 subperiods. In the latter period, our results show that sustainable development and the use of GPGs are interconnected and that the need for global governance related to GPGs is increasingly recognised in the literature. Several interrelated challenges of today’s world, related to environmental, technological, health, (cyber)security, economic, and geopolitical transformations have created the need for a new approach to GPGs.

Research paper thumbnail of Triggers of Different Types of Firm Growth

Economic and Business Review

Authors define and explain firm growth as its transition from current position to short-term or l... more Authors define and explain firm growth as its transition from current position to short-term or long-term equilibrium motivated by profit maximisation. They allocate growing firms into six groups according to their growth type based on different dimensions of firm growth, i.e. growth of labour, growth of capital, growth of the volume of business, and growth of profit. Given that the typology of growing firms employed for the purpose of this paper is based on microeconomic theory, the triggers and their hypothesized relevance in explaining short-term and long-term growth patterns are also grounded in microeconomic theory. Accordingly, the authors study growth triggers in the form of the firm's technical and allocative (in)efficiency, its disequilibrium market position within a respective industry and the industry's market position relative to other industries. They thus assume that firm growth is either based on the utilization of firm's internal resources or is a result of favourable market conditions and hypothesize that the probability of a firm belonging to a particular type of growth is explained (i) with firm's internal efficiency, (ii) those market conditions that can be altered by the decisions adopted by management and (iii) those market conditions that are independent from the actions of management. The authors explore these triggers of three types of short-term growth, long-term growth, unsuccessful growth and downsizing, using data for 41,529 Slovenian firms in the 2007e2012 period. Results show that firm growth in Slovenia exhibits theoretically expected links between growth types and their triggers and also have relevant managerial implications.

Research paper thumbnail of Financial literacy of first-year university students

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defining inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences between courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, business students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better financial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Students' Confidence in Their Financial Management Abilities: The Role of Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Education

Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Mar 25, 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of gender, age, parent's education, scholarsh... more The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of gender, age, parent's education, scholarship and students' education on students' confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge. In the research, 259 students participated from two different faculties-the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Economics. This investigation has revealed that the likelihood of students' confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge is significantly smaller for students who do not specialize in economics or business studies, and for female students. The likelihood of confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge also statistically significantly increases with the father's educational level, but, interestingly, not with the mother's. The results also showed, although it is not statistically significant, that students on scholarships on average express a higher confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge. Therefore, the adequacy of the current educational policy (formal and non-formal education) should be considered.

Research paper thumbnail of Planned growth as a determinant of the markup: the case of Slovenian manufacturing

Economic and Business Review, 2009

Th e paper follows the idea of heterodox economists that a cost-plus price is above all a reprodu... more Th e paper follows the idea of heterodox economists that a cost-plus price is above all a reproductive price and growth price. Th e authors apply a fi rm-level model of markup determination which, in line with theory and empirical evidence, contains proposed fi rm-specifi c determinants of the markup, including the fi rm's planned growth. Th e positive fi rm-level relationship between growth and markup that is found in data for Slovenian manufacturing fi rms implies that retained profi ts gathered via the markup are an important source of growth fi nancing and that the investment decisions of Slovenian manufacturing fi rms aff ect their pricing policy and decisions on the markup size as proposed by Post-Keynesian theory. Th e authors thus conclude that at least a partial trade-off between a fi rm's growth and competitive outcome exists in Slovenian manufacturing.

Research paper thumbnail of Firm Specific Determinants of Markup ‐ the Case of Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2007

Investigations of firms’ pricing decisions and performances have been twofold. While within the i... more Investigations of firms’ pricing decisions and performances have been twofold. While within the industrial organisation framework stress is placed on industry‐specific factors and the market power of firms within industries, various organisational theories emphasise the role of ‘soft’ factors in the determination of firms’ performance. The main thesis of our paper is that the size of a firm's markup can mostly be explained by the firm's productivity, capital and labour costs, as well as the firm's market power and organisational structure characteristics, when the external environment and industry membership is controlled for. Our objective is thus to explain firm‐level markups by a set of firm‐specific factors. The empirical analysis of markup determinants is based on a sample of Slovenian manufacturing firms (NACE 15–37) in the 1994–2003 period, applying panel data regression GLS model and ANOVA analyses. We find that, besides market share and cost factors, organisatio...

Research paper thumbnail of Performance Measurement In Large Slovenian Companies: An Assessment Of Progress

International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS), 2010

The prevailing literature and empirical studies on management of organizational performance stres... more The prevailing literature and empirical studies on management of organizational performance stress the increasing importance of non-financial performance measures and propose companies to implement some kind of integrated performance measurement system. The purpose of our study is to investigate the characteristics of performance measurement and management in large Slovenian companies, focusing also on the progress made in the 5-year period. The analysis is based on two surveys conducted in the spring 2003 and summer of 2008. We investigate what do companies understand by “successful performance”, what are the most and the least important performance measures for companies, and what performance measurement systems do companies use. By answering these questions we discuss the impact of our results on the future development and growth of firms. The research results show that large Slovenian companies consider “successful performance” mostly in terms of implementing the strategy, follo...

Research paper thumbnail of What Drives Firm Growth? Comparing Factors of Intensive and Extensive Firm Growth

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013

ABSTRACT This paper compares the determinants of firm’s extensive and intensive growth based on p... more ABSTRACT This paper compares the determinants of firm’s extensive and intensive growth based on population data of manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia in the 1994-2003 period. The former is measured in terms of employment and the latter is defined in terms of total factor productivity. After controlling for possible endogeneity of explanatory variables and accounting for growth persistence a firm’s extensive growth is found to be stronger in younger and more productive firms, using more capital intensive technology and exporting larger share of their output. Intensive growth is also more pronounced in firms with more capital intensive but it is characterized with inverted U-shaped relationship with its size. However, significant differences among the factors of intensive and extensive firm growth are revealed, especially with respect to industry-specific factors. The industry-level markup size and intra-industry concentration of foreign firms affect significantly only the intensive firm growth, while firm’s age and its export orientation are found to be important factors only for the firm’s extensive growth. The results support the great importance of external factors for firm’s learning process and, consequently its TFP growth, in particular competitive pressure in the market and foreign firms’ presence rather than ability of learning through firm’s own exporting activity or from its eventual foreign owner.

Research paper thumbnail of Foreign Direct Investment and the Markup Size in Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The effect of industry maturity, turnover and competition on firm survival: evidence from Slovenian firms

Post-Communist Economies, 2014

2014 Des mesures de module d'Young par la méthode de flexion trois points pour des aérogels de si... more 2014 Des mesures de module d'Young par la méthode de flexion trois points pour des aérogels de silice sont présentées. Le comportement élastique est étudié en fonction de la densité apparente des matériaux. L'analyse de ces résultats expérimentaux est effectuée en utilisant l'analogie avec un système de percolation. Abstract. 2014 Measurements of the Young modulus of silica aerogels are performed using the three points flexural technique. The elastic behaviour is studied as a function of the apparent density of the materials. The analysis of the experimental results is made in terms of a percolating system.

Research paper thumbnail of A small EU country attempting to exit the economic crisis: rediscovering the post Keynesian perspective on incomes and prices policy

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2013

X-ray powder diffraction, magnetic susceptibility χ(T), and electrical resistivity ρ(T) measureme... more X-ray powder diffraction, magnetic susceptibility χ(T), and electrical resistivity ρ(T) measurements were made on single crystals of the filled skutterudite series Pr(Os1−xRux)4Sb12. One end of the series (x = 0) is a heavy fermion superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature Tc = 1.85 K, while the other end (x = 1) is a conventional superconductor with Tc ≈ 1 K. The lattice constant a decreases approximately linearly with increasing Ru concentration x. As Ru (Os) is substituted for Os (Ru), Tc decreases nearly linearly with substituent concentration and exhibits a minimum with a value of Tc = 0.75 K at x = 0.6, suggesting that the two types of superconductivity compete with one another. Crystalline electric field (CEF) effects in χ dc (T) and ρ(T) due to the splitting of the Pr 3+ nine-fold degenerate Hund's rule J = 4 multiplet are observed throughout the series, with the splitting between the ground state and the first excited state increasing monotonically as x increases. The fits to the χ dc (T) and ρ(T) data are consistent with a Γ3 doublet ground state for all values of x, although reasonable fits can be obtained for a Γ1 ground state for x values near the end member compounds (x = 0 or x = 1).

Research paper thumbnail of Characteristics of firms with different types of growth: The case of Slovenia

Economic Annals, 2016

The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on cons... more The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on consistent application of the microeconomic theory of the firm, and thereby addressing some limitations of existing studies that investigate growing and fast-growing firms. A rich database available for the entire population of business entities in Slovenia enables the authors to use the proposed typology and investigate key demographic and other characteristics of firms with different types of growth in the 2007-12 period. The authors conclude that the case of Slovenia and the analysis of firm characteristics confirm the adequacy of the proposed typology.

Research paper thumbnail of Prague Economic Papers, 2, 2006 135 National Accounts Data and Macroeconomic Analysis: A Comparative Study of the Czech

In this paper there are analysed the characteristics of various important macroeconomic variables... more In this paper there are analysed the characteristics of various important macroeconomic variables in the Slovenian economy and compared with the macroeconomic development

Research paper thumbnail of International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 4(2), 241–255 Financial Literacy of First-Year University Students: The Role of Education

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students man-age their finances an... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students man-age their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defin-ing inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences be-tween courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, busi-ness students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better finan-cial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Foreign Competition, Firm Heterogeneity and the Distinction Between TFP and Employment Firm Growth

This paper compares the role of foreign competition in firms’ extensive and intensive growth base... more This paper compares the role of foreign competition in firms’ extensive and intensive growth based on population data for manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia in the 1994–2003 period. Extensive firm growth is measured in terms of employment, while intensive firm growth is defined in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). Based on system GMM estimates, we find significant differences between the determinants of intensive and extensive firm growth and across different parts of the TFP distribution: (i) local firms with the exception of firms from the upper tail of the TFP distribution experience a competition effect of increased imports both in terms of their reduced employment and TFP growth; (ii) inward FDI measured by foreign firms’ share in industry employment has a significantly positive effect on TFP firm growth for firms from the 25-100 centile of the TFP distribution, while this factor decreases the employment growth of firms from the lower and medium quartiles of the...

Research paper thumbnail of Financial literacy of first-year university students: the role of education

International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 2015

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defining inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences between courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, business students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better financial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Economic Evaluation of Preventive Healthcare: A Cost Benefit Analysis of a Parenting Program

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021

The positive impact of parenting programs on the health and wellbeing of individuals and their im... more The positive impact of parenting programs on the health and wellbeing of individuals and their immediate community has been confirmed in many studies. Often, and especially during the Covid-19 pandemics, prevention health programs are stalled due to other policy priorities. Costbenefit analysis (CBA) can be used for the economic evaluation of public health programs to support evidence-based health policies and allows the comparison of the monetized effects of programs across different societal domains. However, CBA requires a variety of data that are typically difficult to obtain. Using the Incredible Years (IY) parenting program case, we illustrate how CBA can be practically applied. For parenting programs, the positive effects arise exclusively in non-monetary form as benefits arising from avoiding adverse effects in society. We show how to monetize them by estimating the avoided costs of healthcare, educational, and other societal costs due to the program's implementation. At...

Research paper thumbnail of Global Public Goods in Light of the New Paradigm of Sustainable Development under the Challenges Facing Today’s World

BRILL eBooks, Oct 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect Of Financial Constraints On Firm Exit: Discriminating Among Alternative Exit Modes

Research paper thumbnail of How to Measure Our Impact on Society: An Illustration of Social Impact Analysis

Dynamic relationships management journal, Nov 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Development of Global Public Goods Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Global Economy Journal, Aug 2, 2023

Global public goods (GPGs) have been moving to the focus of discussion in international organisat... more Global public goods (GPGs) have been moving to the focus of discussion in international organisations due to globalisation, deepening economic integration, and technological advancements. We provide an overview of the research field of GPGs by conducting a bibliometric analysis for the period from 1993 to 2021. The increasing number of publications and citations of articles dealing with GPGs in the Web of Science is particularly noteworthy in the last decade. Publications on GPGs related to climate change experienced the largest relative growth. Analysis of the co-occurrence networks on authors’ keywords revealed that the focus of GPG research shifted between the 1993–2008 and 2009–2021 subperiods. In the latter period, our results show that sustainable development and the use of GPGs are interconnected and that the need for global governance related to GPGs is increasingly recognised in the literature. Several interrelated challenges of today’s world, related to environmental, technological, health, (cyber)security, economic, and geopolitical transformations have created the need for a new approach to GPGs.

Research paper thumbnail of Triggers of Different Types of Firm Growth

Economic and Business Review

Authors define and explain firm growth as its transition from current position to short-term or l... more Authors define and explain firm growth as its transition from current position to short-term or long-term equilibrium motivated by profit maximisation. They allocate growing firms into six groups according to their growth type based on different dimensions of firm growth, i.e. growth of labour, growth of capital, growth of the volume of business, and growth of profit. Given that the typology of growing firms employed for the purpose of this paper is based on microeconomic theory, the triggers and their hypothesized relevance in explaining short-term and long-term growth patterns are also grounded in microeconomic theory. Accordingly, the authors study growth triggers in the form of the firm's technical and allocative (in)efficiency, its disequilibrium market position within a respective industry and the industry's market position relative to other industries. They thus assume that firm growth is either based on the utilization of firm's internal resources or is a result of favourable market conditions and hypothesize that the probability of a firm belonging to a particular type of growth is explained (i) with firm's internal efficiency, (ii) those market conditions that can be altered by the decisions adopted by management and (iii) those market conditions that are independent from the actions of management. The authors explore these triggers of three types of short-term growth, long-term growth, unsuccessful growth and downsizing, using data for 41,529 Slovenian firms in the 2007e2012 period. Results show that firm growth in Slovenia exhibits theoretically expected links between growth types and their triggers and also have relevant managerial implications.

Research paper thumbnail of Financial literacy of first-year university students

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defining inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences between courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, business students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better financial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Students' Confidence in Their Financial Management Abilities: The Role of Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Education

Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Mar 25, 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of gender, age, parent's education, scholarsh... more The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of gender, age, parent's education, scholarship and students' education on students' confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge. In the research, 259 students participated from two different faculties-the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Economics. This investigation has revealed that the likelihood of students' confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge is significantly smaller for students who do not specialize in economics or business studies, and for female students. The likelihood of confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge also statistically significantly increases with the father's educational level, but, interestingly, not with the mother's. The results also showed, although it is not statistically significant, that students on scholarships on average express a higher confidence in their financial management capability and knowledge. Therefore, the adequacy of the current educational policy (formal and non-formal education) should be considered.

Research paper thumbnail of Planned growth as a determinant of the markup: the case of Slovenian manufacturing

Economic and Business Review, 2009

Th e paper follows the idea of heterodox economists that a cost-plus price is above all a reprodu... more Th e paper follows the idea of heterodox economists that a cost-plus price is above all a reproductive price and growth price. Th e authors apply a fi rm-level model of markup determination which, in line with theory and empirical evidence, contains proposed fi rm-specifi c determinants of the markup, including the fi rm's planned growth. Th e positive fi rm-level relationship between growth and markup that is found in data for Slovenian manufacturing fi rms implies that retained profi ts gathered via the markup are an important source of growth fi nancing and that the investment decisions of Slovenian manufacturing fi rms aff ect their pricing policy and decisions on the markup size as proposed by Post-Keynesian theory. Th e authors thus conclude that at least a partial trade-off between a fi rm's growth and competitive outcome exists in Slovenian manufacturing.

Research paper thumbnail of Firm Specific Determinants of Markup ‐ the Case of Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2007

Investigations of firms’ pricing decisions and performances have been twofold. While within the i... more Investigations of firms’ pricing decisions and performances have been twofold. While within the industrial organisation framework stress is placed on industry‐specific factors and the market power of firms within industries, various organisational theories emphasise the role of ‘soft’ factors in the determination of firms’ performance. The main thesis of our paper is that the size of a firm's markup can mostly be explained by the firm's productivity, capital and labour costs, as well as the firm's market power and organisational structure characteristics, when the external environment and industry membership is controlled for. Our objective is thus to explain firm‐level markups by a set of firm‐specific factors. The empirical analysis of markup determinants is based on a sample of Slovenian manufacturing firms (NACE 15–37) in the 1994–2003 period, applying panel data regression GLS model and ANOVA analyses. We find that, besides market share and cost factors, organisatio...

Research paper thumbnail of Performance Measurement In Large Slovenian Companies: An Assessment Of Progress

International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS), 2010

The prevailing literature and empirical studies on management of organizational performance stres... more The prevailing literature and empirical studies on management of organizational performance stress the increasing importance of non-financial performance measures and propose companies to implement some kind of integrated performance measurement system. The purpose of our study is to investigate the characteristics of performance measurement and management in large Slovenian companies, focusing also on the progress made in the 5-year period. The analysis is based on two surveys conducted in the spring 2003 and summer of 2008. We investigate what do companies understand by “successful performance”, what are the most and the least important performance measures for companies, and what performance measurement systems do companies use. By answering these questions we discuss the impact of our results on the future development and growth of firms. The research results show that large Slovenian companies consider “successful performance” mostly in terms of implementing the strategy, follo...

Research paper thumbnail of What Drives Firm Growth? Comparing Factors of Intensive and Extensive Firm Growth

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013

ABSTRACT This paper compares the determinants of firm’s extensive and intensive growth based on p... more ABSTRACT This paper compares the determinants of firm’s extensive and intensive growth based on population data of manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia in the 1994-2003 period. The former is measured in terms of employment and the latter is defined in terms of total factor productivity. After controlling for possible endogeneity of explanatory variables and accounting for growth persistence a firm’s extensive growth is found to be stronger in younger and more productive firms, using more capital intensive technology and exporting larger share of their output. Intensive growth is also more pronounced in firms with more capital intensive but it is characterized with inverted U-shaped relationship with its size. However, significant differences among the factors of intensive and extensive firm growth are revealed, especially with respect to industry-specific factors. The industry-level markup size and intra-industry concentration of foreign firms affect significantly only the intensive firm growth, while firm’s age and its export orientation are found to be important factors only for the firm’s extensive growth. The results support the great importance of external factors for firm’s learning process and, consequently its TFP growth, in particular competitive pressure in the market and foreign firms’ presence rather than ability of learning through firm’s own exporting activity or from its eventual foreign owner.

Research paper thumbnail of Foreign Direct Investment and the Markup Size in Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The effect of industry maturity, turnover and competition on firm survival: evidence from Slovenian firms

Post-Communist Economies, 2014

2014 Des mesures de module d'Young par la méthode de flexion trois points pour des aérogels de si... more 2014 Des mesures de module d'Young par la méthode de flexion trois points pour des aérogels de silice sont présentées. Le comportement élastique est étudié en fonction de la densité apparente des matériaux. L'analyse de ces résultats expérimentaux est effectuée en utilisant l'analogie avec un système de percolation. Abstract. 2014 Measurements of the Young modulus of silica aerogels are performed using the three points flexural technique. The elastic behaviour is studied as a function of the apparent density of the materials. The analysis of the experimental results is made in terms of a percolating system.

Research paper thumbnail of A small EU country attempting to exit the economic crisis: rediscovering the post Keynesian perspective on incomes and prices policy

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2013

X-ray powder diffraction, magnetic susceptibility χ(T), and electrical resistivity ρ(T) measureme... more X-ray powder diffraction, magnetic susceptibility χ(T), and electrical resistivity ρ(T) measurements were made on single crystals of the filled skutterudite series Pr(Os1−xRux)4Sb12. One end of the series (x = 0) is a heavy fermion superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature Tc = 1.85 K, while the other end (x = 1) is a conventional superconductor with Tc ≈ 1 K. The lattice constant a decreases approximately linearly with increasing Ru concentration x. As Ru (Os) is substituted for Os (Ru), Tc decreases nearly linearly with substituent concentration and exhibits a minimum with a value of Tc = 0.75 K at x = 0.6, suggesting that the two types of superconductivity compete with one another. Crystalline electric field (CEF) effects in χ dc (T) and ρ(T) due to the splitting of the Pr 3+ nine-fold degenerate Hund's rule J = 4 multiplet are observed throughout the series, with the splitting between the ground state and the first excited state increasing monotonically as x increases. The fits to the χ dc (T) and ρ(T) data are consistent with a Γ3 doublet ground state for all values of x, although reasonable fits can be obtained for a Γ1 ground state for x values near the end member compounds (x = 0 or x = 1).

Research paper thumbnail of Characteristics of firms with different types of growth: The case of Slovenia

Economic Annals, 2016

The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on cons... more The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on consistent application of the microeconomic theory of the firm, and thereby addressing some limitations of existing studies that investigate growing and fast-growing firms. A rich database available for the entire population of business entities in Slovenia enables the authors to use the proposed typology and investigate key demographic and other characteristics of firms with different types of growth in the 2007-12 period. The authors conclude that the case of Slovenia and the analysis of firm characteristics confirm the adequacy of the proposed typology.

Research paper thumbnail of Prague Economic Papers, 2, 2006 135 National Accounts Data and Macroeconomic Analysis: A Comparative Study of the Czech

In this paper there are analysed the characteristics of various important macroeconomic variables... more In this paper there are analysed the characteristics of various important macroeconomic variables in the Slovenian economy and compared with the macroeconomic development

Research paper thumbnail of International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 4(2), 241–255 Financial Literacy of First-Year University Students: The Role of Education

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students man-age their finances an... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students man-age their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defin-ing inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences be-tween courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, busi-ness students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better finan-cial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Foreign Competition, Firm Heterogeneity and the Distinction Between TFP and Employment Firm Growth

This paper compares the role of foreign competition in firms’ extensive and intensive growth base... more This paper compares the role of foreign competition in firms’ extensive and intensive growth based on population data for manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia in the 1994–2003 period. Extensive firm growth is measured in terms of employment, while intensive firm growth is defined in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). Based on system GMM estimates, we find significant differences between the determinants of intensive and extensive firm growth and across different parts of the TFP distribution: (i) local firms with the exception of firms from the upper tail of the TFP distribution experience a competition effect of increased imports both in terms of their reduced employment and TFP growth; (ii) inward FDI measured by foreign firms’ share in industry employment has a significantly positive effect on TFP firm growth for firms from the 25-100 centile of the TFP distribution, while this factor decreases the employment growth of firms from the lower and medium quartiles of the...

Research paper thumbnail of Financial literacy of first-year university students: the role of education

International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 2015

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and... more This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defining inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences between courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, business students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better financial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Economic Evaluation of Preventive Healthcare: A Cost Benefit Analysis of a Parenting Program

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021

The positive impact of parenting programs on the health and wellbeing of individuals and their im... more The positive impact of parenting programs on the health and wellbeing of individuals and their immediate community has been confirmed in many studies. Often, and especially during the Covid-19 pandemics, prevention health programs are stalled due to other policy priorities. Costbenefit analysis (CBA) can be used for the economic evaluation of public health programs to support evidence-based health policies and allows the comparison of the monetized effects of programs across different societal domains. However, CBA requires a variety of data that are typically difficult to obtain. Using the Incredible Years (IY) parenting program case, we illustrate how CBA can be practically applied. For parenting programs, the positive effects arise exclusively in non-monetary form as benefits arising from avoiding adverse effects in society. We show how to monetize them by estimating the avoided costs of healthcare, educational, and other societal costs due to the program's implementation. At...