
14th International Conference
Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries
ΕΒΕΕC 2022
May 20-22, 2022
Florence, Italy
International Hellenic University, Department of Finance and Accounting
University of Florence, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Florence, Italy
Meyer Health Campus of Pediatric University Hospital Meyer, Florence, Italy
Conference Venue: Villa la Quiete , Via di Boldrone, 2, 50141 Firenze FI, Italy
Contact us at ebeec@ihu.gr
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We announce a Hybrid conference mode for EBEEC 2022, so that the conference’s participants can choose between two possibilities of physical presence at the conference or from a distance (online). More information will be announced in time.

Call for Papers
The economies of Balkans and Eastern Europe countries have almost completed a course of two decades with significant changes in their characteristics and their adaptation in the new economic environment. This course has fore grounded significant difficulties, has highlighted the problems that the countries of the region should face, and it has led to different states and patterns of growth and enhancement of the economies.
The aim of the conference is to discuss and evaluate the results of the economic policy that have been applied during the last two decades, to suspend the prospect challenges and to investigate the policies in the sector of economy which are considered necessary, so that the countries to be integrated getting as much benefit as possible.
A specific focus will be dedicated on the impact of the pandemic on the different economic sectors and intends to investigate the strategies and prospects for their recovery. Then the conference intends to investigate the redesign and relaunch of the healthcare system and organizations as driver for new investment and development.
This year the conference also includes a corporate governance track which invites contributions from all areas of corporate governance. The track is coordinated by the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance (HOCG) and welcomes papers that will address the recent trends corporate governance faces including ESG criteria and related reporting for firms. The track has a specific interest on the developing economies in the Mediterranean, Balkans and in Eastern Europe and studies investigating the state of the debate around corporate governance in less developed capital market states.
Papers to be accepted for the conference have to be related to the wider domain of economic science and health management with particular reference to research and experiences that could be interesting for the regions of Balkan and Eastern Europe.
Publication Opportunity
Selected papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in special issues of the:
- Springer: We announce one or two special sessions in specific topic(s). The presented papers will be published in one or two volumes by Springer in the series Contributions to Economics (automatically indexed in Scopus) and probably in the series “Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy”. - Call of papers – Also, if there is a large number of paper submissions, Proceedings published by Springer in the series Business and Economics (submitted for evaluation to be indexed in Scopus).
- Knowledge E (If there is a large number of paper submissions, we publish selected presented papers as proceedings which are automatically indexed in Google Scholar and selected titles are submitted for evaluation by international indexing and discovery services including Scopus and Web of Science as well as others. All our previous publications in KnowledgeE are indexed in Web of Science)
- Studies in Business and Economics
- Eastern Journal of European Studies
- Scientific Annals of Economics and Business
- European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies - Call of papers
- Intellectual Economics
- Mecosan
- Corporate Board: Role, Duties and Composition - Call of papers
- Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting
- International Journal of Economics & Business Administration
- Montenegrin Journal of Economics
- Journal of Business Paradigms
- Scientific Bulletin - Economic Sciences
- International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research
- e-book of conference proceedings
Important Dates
Abstract submission: January 31, 2022
Extended Abstract submission: February 13, 2022
Notification of decision: February 17, 2022
Full paper submission: May 22, 2022
Conference Dates: May 20-22, 2022
Conference Program
Topics
The conference topic list includes:
- Accounting, Auditing, Taxation
- Artificial Intelligence Opportunities for Development
- Bioeconomy
- Business Information Systems and Entrepreneurship
- Comparative Economics
- Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance
- Economic and Public Policy
- Economic Growth, Development and Sustainability
- Energy Economics
- European Crisis and the Balkans
- Finance and Investments
- Financial and Capital Markets
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Globalisation: Critical Views
- Health Economics, Education Economics
- Hospitality industry
- International and European Political Economy
- International Business
- International Economics
- International Relations
- Knowledge Economics, Management and Innovation
- Labour Markets and Immigration
- Management Accounting and Financial Management
- Management and Marketing
- Monetary Economics and Banking
- Multinational Enterprises and Foreign Direct Investments
- Poverty, Income Distribution and Social Inequalities
- Public Sector Economics and Public Finance
- Regional Integration with special reference to the EU
- Technological development in the 21st Century
- Tourism
- Tourism Economics
