Projects / Programmes
Economic Policy and Economic Statistics
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.02.00 |
Social sciences |
Economics |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S180 |
Social sciences |
Economics, econometrics, economic theory, economic systems, economic policy |
| S188 |
Social sciences |
Economics of development |
| S184 |
Social sciences |
Economic planning |
| S196 |
Social sciences |
Social economics |
Researchers (14)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The topic of the research program deals with the two elementary bricks of economic research. One of them is economic statistics which should provide necessary data and modern methodological tools for scientifically based economic policy intervention in the modern market economy. The other one is intervention as such (in most cases government intervention), with its necessary principles, tools, goals and actors. For economic policy in particular country an approval of economic intervention and its implementation is also very important.
However, the main goal of this particular research program is to concentrate on the economic statistics and economic policy of Slovenia. Slovenian economy at the turn of the century is in very sensitive historic moment. It has somehow completed the process of economic and political transition to the market economy, and, at the same time, it is in the middle of the process of acceptance of the legal system of the European Union and, accordingly, in the middle of the process of the entering into the Union.
The main topics of the research program deal with empirical and statistical foundations of the economic policy of the country in this particular period of the Slovenian history. In principle, all parts of the economic policy are relevant. However, for the sake of professional specialization of the researchers, some parts of the economic policy (monetary and international economic relations in particular) will be left out to other research groups at the Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana University, as well as to the other research groups in Slovenia.
This particular research program is important for the implementation of the relevant economic policy in the country in this particular period of time. From the broader perspective, it is also important for other Central and Eastern European transitional countries and their economies. Some of these countries are also in the very special process of joining the European Union. The most important lesson for all of these countries is the knowledge that the prescriptions or recipes from the scholars from the developed countries with market economy are not the best medicine for the solving of the economic problems of the countries in the Central and Eastern Europe. Therefore, very serious research work in these particular countries is necessary for the implementation of the best solutions. The research groups of the scientists in Slovenia and other Central and Eastern European countries should focus all the time to the most topical issues of the economic policy in these countries. This particular research group has founded its research in this basic philosophy.
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