16th Dubrovnik economic conference symposium/ created by Paul Wachtel and Boris Vujčić

The Croatian National Bank's 16th Annual Dubrovnik Economic conference was held on 23–25 June 2010 and the 5th Annual Young Economist's Seminar was held on the preceding day. The conference has a well established tradition for the presentation of research on the changing world economy and once again we are pleased to present some of the papers in this symposium. Moreover, for the first time, our symposium includes one of the papers presented at the Young Economist's Seminar (YES), which provides an opportunity for young Croatian economists to present their research to an international audience. In this symposium we present three papers presented at the conference, all of which address issues that relate to the Croatian economy. All the papers were revised after the conference, refereed by anonymous reviewers and evaluated by the symposium editors.