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This paper attempts to shed light on the linkages between criminal behavior and unemployment, with special reference to Central and East European countries (CEE). The adequacy of this paper relies on the premise that an econometric modeling of the relation between these variables is very important for the explanation of economic and social growth. Our result is in line with the premise that crime goes up when unemployment rises. These findings suggest that, to combat crime, all strategies oriented to mitigate unemployment should be investigated. Furthermore, in order to successfully mitigate crime, governmental authorities in the CEE economies need to achieve macroeconomic stability.

The basic objective of the paper is the examination of mutual interdependence of the parameters on insurance market and the economic growth at the specific area of ex-Yugoslavia. Time horizon of the observation encompasses the period 2005-2019, and as the appropriate methodological framework, the econometrics of panel data was used. The accompanying co-integration tests and tests of long-term effects have shown that the insurance sector and economic growth are long-term related, as well as that the insurance sector exerts positive and statistically significant influence on the economic growth. Additionally, it was shown that non-life insurance realizes more significant effects on growth. To confirm robustness, causality test has shown that changes in insurance sector cause the changes in economic growth. Economic policy makers have an important task ahead of them, which consists in promoting insurance markets, improvement of regulation, and legislation framework that should contribute to the growth of economic activity in analyzed countries.

U kontekstu sve većih regionalnih razlika koje su prisutne, kako u razvijenim, tako i u zemljama u razvoju, osnovni cilj ovoga rada je ispitati utjecaj ukupne gospodarske aktivnosti na regionalne disparitete. U radu je korišten panel uzorak odabranih OECD zemalja, a vremensko određenje je 2000. – 2011. U okviru empirijske analize utvrđeno je da postoji dugoročna povezanost varijabli, kao i da se gospodarski rast i regionalne razlike kreću u istom smjeru, i da je taj utjecaj snažan i statistički značajan. Shodno tome, u cilju smanjenja regionalnih dispariteta neophodno je da slabije razvijene regije sudjeluju s većim postotkom u ukupnom ostvarenom društvenom proizvodu, u čemu će pomoći adekvatna koordinacija politika usmjerena prema regionalnom razvoju na svim razinama vlasti. ; In the context of growing regional disparities which exist both in developed and developing countries, the primary goal of this paper is to examine the influence of total economic activities on regional disparities. In the research panel sample of the selected OECD countries has been used with the data for the time period from 2000 to 2011. The empirical analysis reveals that there is a long-term relationship between the variables, that economic growth and regional disparities move in the same direction and that the impact of economic growth on regional disparities is statistically significant. Consequently, in order to reduce regional disparities, it is necessary to increase the share of less developed regions in the total output. In this matter, it should be helpful to adequately coordinate policies about regional development from all levels of governance.