Due to the consequences caused by the crisis of the COVID-19 virus pandemic (interrupted supply chains), energy crisis, geopolitical crisis (war conflicts between Russia and Ukraine) resulting in high inflation, the working paper analyzes, tests and quantifies the impact of gold price movements on daily rates of return from investment activit...

By Marko Milošević, Ognjen Bakmaz

 One of the main issues in competitive strategy is the company's relative position in the economic segment. Positioning determines whether a company's profitability will be above or below the average of the corresponding economic segment. A company that is capable of doing well positions can achieve high rates of return even if the structure o...

By Ružica Đervida, Radmila Bojanić, Slađana Babić

 Environmental crime is a global problem and a serious threat primarily to health security. Namely, the citizens’ awareness about the importance of the environment is at a rather low level. Therefore, the paper will deal with the issue of illegal dump sites in the area of the City of Doboj, their causes, consequences, as well as the meas...

By Suzana Malešić, Sandro Nalić, Alen Petković

 The paper analyzes the student assessment of the quality of higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an emphasis on the implementation of standards for quality improvement introduced in 2012. The aim of the research is to assess the effectiveness of these measures in improving the quality of higher education in the country. The main r...

By Mirjana Milovanović, Zorana Agić, Svetlana Dušanić Gačić

 The main goal of this paper is to examine the role of a diagram within the design studio as a significant methodology in contemporary architectural education. Our starting point is the fact that in mastering the skill of architectural design, the most important thing is to understand the process itself, and that the architectural diagram is o...

By Maja Milić Aleksić, Marina Radulj, Diana Stupar

 The design of space and its evaluation can be examined from the way space is perceived and from its memory production potential. Such psychological notions of spatiality, which primarily concern the perceived and experienced aspect, are most often drawn from the first children's spatial conceptualizations. Analyzing preverbal and precultural ...

By Diana Stupar, Maja Milić Aleksić, Marina Radulj

 The paper presents the concept of competitiveness of the city's economy. Its growing importance in the theory and policy of the competitiveness of certain urban areas is highlighted. The concept of city competitiveness means a kind of theoretical and methodological unification of the general and local dimensions of the multi-level category of...

By Srđan Milicević, Danijela Despotović, Slobodan Cvetanović, Lela Ristić

 Current public sector reforms, aimed at improving its efficiency and effectiveness, require financial information that reflects the effects of business activities no only on engaged financial but on total economic resources. There is always a dilemma which of accounting models can be applied in the public sector to best meet the requirements ...

By Dragan Vukasović, Ognjen Bakmaz, Biljana Bjelica

 The dominant model of the economy, in the world and in our country, is still a linear model, that is, a linear economy based on the assumptions that natural resources are available in abundance, easy to obtain and cheap to dispose of. In contrast to the aforementioned, the circular economy represents a regenerative economic system within whic...

By Zoran Anišić, Jelena Demko-Rihter, Marija Pantelić

 The authors investigate the external solvency of three Balkan countries, two of which are socalled late transition countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia), while Bulgaria is a country that has completed the transition and become a member of the European Union since 2007. Two indicators of external solvency are analysed: External debt/g...

By Danijela Despotović, Srđan Milicević, Vladimir Nedić, Slobodan Cvetanović