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The Central Bank awarded Prices to Young Economists and the Best Stories in Journalism in the field of financial system

The Central Bank in the wake of its annual activities, this year has also continued in awarding the price of the Young Economists and the one on the Best Story in Journalism initiated for the first time. Regarding candidates, based on the criteria set out in the CBK’s competition for the “Prize of Young Economist” after evaluation on best research works in the field of economy and finance, after reviewing and assessing these paper works, always considering criteria set by the competition, and after final evaluation the academic professional commission has announced as winners of the award the following candidates: first place: Aurela Deshishku for her work paper on “Nonperforming Loans: An analysis of the Indicators of the deteriorating asset quality in South Eastern Europe “, second place: Halim Mahmuti for his work paper on ” Fiscal Moral from SME Perspective in Kosovo “and third place to: Arian Krasniqi for his paper on ” Creating Competitive Advantages of the Enterprise via application of the Differentiation Strategy (Case study: Banking Sector).
While on the competition announced this year by the CBK titled: CBK’s price for the Best Story in journalism from the field of economy and financial system which after evaluation of submitted papers from a joint committee of independent members of the mass media community and observer members from the CBK have carefully reviewed the applications and decided to award the CBK Price for the Best Story in journalism from field of economy – financial system: with the following topics and categories: best TV story with the topic: “Kosovo’s economic growth” to Mr. Faton Salihu, the theme is carried by RTK journalist, best story in printed media/ press, electronic media was awarded to: Lulzim Ahmeti from Telegraph Agency on the topic: “The millions who come to Kosovo from Afghanistan “; Mr. Albert Spahiu from newspaper Economia on the topic:” The banking sector profits from loans only” and to Mr. Rrahman Ramaj from Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) on the topic ” Fiscal package for citizens”.