Miroslav N. Jovanovic

Miroslav N. Jovanovic PhD

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Transport Division
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 917 2493
Email: miroslav.jovanovic@unece.org

and

European Institute of the University of Geneva
2 rue Jean-Daniel Colladon
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland

Updated on 22 March 2012

Welcome to my home page. Let me introduce myself right away. I am an economist. I work in the Transport Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland. I was born in 1957 in Novi Sad, Serbia. I completed my education in economics by shuttling between the Universities of Novi Sad, Belgrade, Amsterdam and Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario). Throughout the 1980s I worked on and off in the oil business, notably the Middle East. During this time, I also studied thanks to grants from the Dutch and Canadian governments. I have always kept alive my academic interest in international economic integration which I started reading in Amsterdam in 1980.

After passing a UN competitive exam, I joined the Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York in 1989. I worked there for three years with John H. Dunning (General Editor) on the UN Library on Transnational Corporations, on a set of readings covering all economic aspects of TNCs and foreign direct investment. The set, which consisted of 20 volumes and was published by Routledge of London in 1993 and 1994, was the biggest project ever-published by the Centre. In 1992, I moved to the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva where my job included trade and investment promotion and facilitation, statistics, as well as assistance in relations with the European Union. I now deal with transport related issues.

ACADEMIA

My principal academic and research interests are in:

International economic integration

Evolutionary economics and geography

European Union

Enlargement of the European Union

Location of firms/industries and spatial economics

Industrial, trade and competition policies

Transnational corporations and foreign direct investment

Lecturer at the European Institute of the University of Geneva from 2008.

I won the Daeyang Prize for Year 2010 for the best article ('Is globalisation taking us for a ride', September, pp. 501-549) published in the Journal of Economic Integration. in 2010.

In addition to working for the UN, I have given courses and public lectures at the following academic institutions:

Austria: Johannes Kepler University, Linz

Croatia: University of Zagreb

Cyprus: Intercollege, Nicosia; University of Nicosia

England: University of Cambridge

Greece: European Summer Academy, Spetsae (Panteion University, Athens)

Germany: University of Reutlingen

Italy: Academia Europea, Bolzano; University of Genoa; University of Insubria-Varese; University of Modena; University of Trento

Japan: Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School (IDEAS) of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), Chiba-Tokyo

Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina): University of Banja Luka

Serbia: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade; University of Belgrade; European Centre for Peace and Development of the UN University for Peace, Belgrade; Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade; Megatrend University, Belgrade; University of Novi Sad

Switzerland: University of Geneva; University of Basle, Europa Institut

US: Columbia University, NY; Kent State University, Cleveland, OH; Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

I am a visiting faculty at the annual European Summer Academy in Spetsae, Greece (The Hellenic University Association of European Studies and Panteion University, Athens) where I acted as the Director of Studies (1992-2006). In 1996 I was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for Peace and Development in Belgrade, a European Branch of the UN University for Peace and from 2007 a Visiting Professor of Economics at the same institution. Megatrend University in Belgrade appointed me as its Visiting Professor of Economics in 2008. I am also a referee to several journals and book publishers.

I have written and edited books, as well as contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy (2001). In addition, I have published articles, some of which are listed below.

Well, that is all for the moment. You are welcome to contact me in English, French, Italian or Serbian. Thanks for the visit and have a nice day.

BOOKS

The Economics of European Integration (2013). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).

International Handbook on the Economics of Integration: General Issues and Regional Groups (2011). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

International Handbook on the Economics of Integration: Competition, Spatial Location of Economic Activity and Financial Issues (2011). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

International Handbook on the Economics of Integration: Factor Mobility, Agriculture, Environment and Quantitative Studies (2011). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

Evolutionary Economic Geography (2009). Foreword by Ron Boschma, introductory note by Masahisa Fujita, London: Routledge; forthcoming in Chinese.

Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries: Conceptuals Issues (2007). Foreword by Richard E. Baldwin, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries: Agglomeration and Clusters (2007). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries: Transnational Corporations and Search for Evidence (2007). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, editor.

The Economics of International Integration (2006). Foreword by Richard G. Lipsey, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Location of Production: Local vs. Global Game (2006). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Spatial Location of Firms and Industries: Is Local Superior to Global? (2006). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

The Economics of European Integration (2005). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Translated and published in Serbian, Faculty of Economics: Belgrade (two editions).

Geography of Production and Economic Integration (2001). London: Routledge.

Standards and Regulations in International Trade (2000). Geneva: United Nations, editor.

International Economic Integration: Limits and Prospects (1998). Second revised edition; Foreword by Richard G. Lipsey, London: Routledge. Translated and published in Greek (2002); Athens: Papazissis.

International Economic Integration: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy - Theory and Measurement (1998), London: Routledge, editor.

International Economic Integration: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy - Monetary, Fiscal and Factor Mobility Issues (1998), London: Routledge, editor.

International Economic Integration: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy - General Issues (1998), London: Routledge, editor.

International Economic Integration: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy - Integration Schemes (1998), London: Routledge, editor.

European Economic Integration: Limits and Prospects (1997). Foreword by Alexis Jacquemin, London: Routledge.

International Economic Integration (1992). Foreword by Richard G. Lipsey, London: Routledge.

The Challenge of Free Economic Zones in Central and Eastern Europe (1991), co-editor with K.P. Sauvant and N. Zaitsev, New York: United Nations.

EEC and the Developing Countries (1990), co-author with M. Vukićević, Belgrade: Naučna knjiga.

Economics of the European Economic Community (1985), Belgrade: Savremena administracija. This manuscript won the European Commission’s printing grant.

ARTICLES

‘Is the eurozone rescue strategy tantamount to the rearrangement of the deckchairs on the Titanic?’ (2012), Journal of Economic Integration, March, 2012, pp. 33-79.

'Is globalisation taking us for a ride?' (2010), Journal of Economic Integration, September, pp. 501-549.

‘Does globalisation make sense?' (2008), Economia Internazionale, February, pp. 47-80.

‘Review article of R.G. Lipsey, K. Carlaw and C. Bekar's Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth’ (2007), Economia Internazionale, February, pp. 123-136.

‘Economic integration and spatial location of production’ in Adjusting to EU Enlargement (ed. C. Stephanou). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006. pp. 25-45.

‘Location of production: local vs. global game’ in International Trade Issues (ed. R. Weeks). New York: Nova Scientific Publishers, 2006, pp. 33-85.

‘Spatial location of firms and industries: is local superior to global?’ in Contemporary Issues in Urban and Regional Economics (ed. L. Yee). New York: Nova Scientific Publishers, 2005, pp. 1-53.

‘Turkey in the European Union: Euthanasia or the Rejuvenation of Europe?’ (2005), Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europei (AUSE), Scuola Estiva di Venezia, 14-16 July 2005; and in J. Sperling, V. Papacosma and A. Theophanous (eds)(2008). Turkey and Europe High Stakes Uncertain Prospects. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press. pp. 113-143.

‘Eastern enlargement of the EU: a topsy-turvy endgame or permanent disillusionment’ (2004), Journal of Economic Integration, December, pp 830-868.

‘Economic integration and spatial location of production’ (2004), University of Genoa, Department of Economics and Finance Working Paper No. 12/2004.

‘Local vs. global location of firms and industries’ (2003), Journal of Economic Integration, March, pp. 60-104.

‘Spatial location of firms and industries: an overview of theory’ (2003), Economia Internazionale, February, pp. 23-81.

‘Why eastern enlargement of the European Union won’t be fast’ (2001) in Europe: What Kind of Integration? (Europa: Verso Quale Integrazione?) (ed. G. Casale). Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 140-167.

‘Eastern enlargement of the European Union: sour grapes or sweet lemon?’ (2000), Economia Internazionale, November, pp. 507-536.

‘Economic integration and location of industries’ (2000), in Economic Interests and Cultural Determinants in European Integration (ed. B. Schefold). Bolzano: European Academy, pp. 169-204.

‘Where are the limits to the enlargement of the European Union?’ (1999), Journal of Economic Integration, September, pp. 467-496.

‘Enlargement of the European Union: economic dimension’ (1999), in Cyprus and the European Union (eds A. Theophanous, N. Peristianis and A. Ioannou). Nicosia: Intercollege Press, pp. 41-66.

‘Festina Lente: Prospettive e limiti dell'allargamento ad Est dell'Unione Europea’ (1998), La Comunita Internazionale, pp. 529-544.

‘Does eastern enlargement mean the end of the European Union?’ (1998), International Relations, April, pp. 23-39.

‘Probing leviathan: the eastern enlargement of the European Union’ (1997), European Review, October, pp. 353-370.

‘Economic integration among the developing countries and foreign direct investment’ (1995), Economia Internazionale, May, pp. 209-244.