Roswitha Maria Berta King

• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2025). Emigration and tobacco smoking among those staying behind. Journal of Migration and Health. 11. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2025.100305. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2022). Lending gains and funding risk in Baltic housing markets. Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance (EJEF). 10(3), p. 105–119. doi: 10.15604/ejef.2022.10.03.003. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper analyzes lending gains and funding risk in the Baltic housing markets. Transition economies are exposed to both cycles and structural shifts, relating housing market fundamentals to a more diversified set of processes than in mature economies. Still, as housing is a nontradable good, transition allows for high rates of appreciation. When house price growth exceeds the mortgage rate, there are lending gains from mortgage-financed housing. As higher leverage increases funding risk, a challenge emerges for transition economies, which are in a monetary union with mature economies. Asymmetric shocks to housing markets may threaten financial stability as the monetary policy does not respond to country-specific house price bubbles. In addition to a discussion on asymmetric shocks and the role of housing, the paper offers an illustration of the lending gain and the funding risk that housing markets in transition economies may entail. The paper simulates the return to housing equity across the Baltic states over the period 2010-2020. While a strong housing market has provided Estonian households with the highest price gains, both Latvian and Lithuanian households have taken advantage of the deepening monetary integration towards the end of the period. Still, the more volatile housing markets in the two southernmost Baltic states make leverage set its mark on the risk-return profile.

• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2019). To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans. International Migration Review. ISSN 0197-9183. doi: 10.1177/0197918319844176. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2019). Is the transition process neutral to the employment–output ratio? Or does ‘jobless growth’ come naturally? The case when allocative and technological effects interact. Post-Communist Economies. ISSN 1463-1377. doi: 10.1080/14631377.2019.1678102. Full text in Research Archive
• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Does emigration reduce corruption? Public Choice. ISSN 0048-5829. 171(3-4), p. 389–408. doi: 10.1007/s11127-017-0442-z. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants’ countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find that having relatives abroad reduces the likelihood of bribing public officials, renders bribe-taking behavior by public officials less acceptable, and reduces the likelihood of being asked for bribes by public officials. Receiving monetary remittances does not change the beneficial effects regarding bribe paying and attitudes toward corruption; however, remittances counteract the beneficial effect on bribe solicitations by public officials. Overall, our findings support the conjecture that migration contributes to the transfer of norms and practices from destination to source countries.

• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). Industrial structure and jobless growth in transition economies. Post-Communist Economies. ISSN 1463-1377. 28(4), p. 520–536. doi: 10.1080/14631377.2016.1237037. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2015). Kosovo – winning its independence but losing its people?: Recent evidence on emigration intentions and preparedness to migrate. International migration. ISSN 0020-7985. 53(5), p. 84–103. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00716.x. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond-Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2015). Endogenous supply side constraints to export-led growth and aggregate growth implications in transition economies. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. ISSN 0954-349X. 33, p. 96–109. doi: 10.1016/j.strueco.2015.04.002. Full text in Research Archive
• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria (2014). 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia. Economics of Education Review. ISSN 0272-7757. 38, p. 151–166. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.010. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond-Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2014). Export-led growth in transition economies: The role of industrial structure, productivity growth differentials, and cross-sectoral subsidies. Eastern European Economics. ISSN 0012-8775. 52(3), p. 33–54. doi: 10.2753/EEE0012-8775520302. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Borgersen, Trond-Arne (2014). Structural origins of debt-sustainability in mature and transition economies: Domar, Balassa-Samuelson and Maastricht. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. ISSN 0954-349X. 30, p. 101–119. doi: 10.1016/j.strueco.2014.03.002. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Borgersen, Trond-Arne (2013). Relating debt to inflation among transition economies: A blueprint from mature economies? Comparative Economic Studies. ISSN 0888-7233. 55, p. 606–635. doi: 10.1057/ces.2013.11. Full text in Research Archive
• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria (2013). Together or apart?: Attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-independence Kosovo. In Laderchi, Catarina Ruggeri & Savastano, Sara (Ed.), Poverty and exclusion in the Western Balkans: New directions in measurement and policy. Springer. ISSN 9781461449447. p. 203–219. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4945-4_12. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2013). Conversations with civil servants: East European public administration reform in search of socioeconomic development. In Carayannis, Elias G. & Korres, George M. (Ed.), European socio-economic integration: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learned. Springer. ISSN 9781461452539. p. 173–191. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5254-6_12. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2012). Family migration capital and migration intentions. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. ISSN 1058-0476. 33(1), p. 118–129. doi: 10.1007/s10834-011-9269-9. Full text in Research Archive
• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Does more schooling make you run for the border?: Evidence from post-independence Kosovo. Journal of Development Studies. ISSN 0022-0388. 48(8), p. 1108–1120. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2012.658377. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2012). From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia. IZA Journal of Migration. 1. doi: 10.1186/2193-9039-1-14. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2011). Reallocation and restructuring: a generalization of the Balassa-Samuelson effect. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. ISSN 0954-349X. 22(4), p. 287–298. doi: 10.1016/j.strueco.2011.07.001. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2011). When the market does not deliver: an inclusive growth experiment falls victim to wealth constraints. In Gonzalez, Jason M. (Eds.), Economics of wealth in the 21st Century. Nova Science Publishers. ISSN 9781611228052. p. 43–60. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2011). Perspectives on interdisciplinarity in Academia. In Muravska, Tatjana & Ozoliņa, Zaneta (Ed.), Interdisciplinarity in social sciences: Does it provide answers to current challenges in higher education and research?. University of Latvia Press. ISSN 9789984454337. p. 102–111. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Jørgen Drud; King, Roswitha Maria & Kvedaras, Virmantas (2011). The international reserves issue in the EMU. Open Economies Review. ISSN 0923-7992. 22(1), p. 143–161. doi: 10.1007/s11079-009-9116-x. Full text in Research Archive

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• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2024). Transition and Integration Effects in the Baltic Housing Markets: The Dipasquale-Wheaton Approach. Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management. ISSN 2255-9604. 12. doi: 10.2478/bjreecm-2024-0019. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2019). Does emigration reduce tobacco smoking among those staying behind? Household level evidence from the Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2019). Interdisciplinary Higher Education – Not just a Luxury. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2019). Economic History of Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2019). Economic History of Norway: Are there lessons to be learned? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2018). Is migration self-perpetuating? Evidence from first-, second-, and third generation migrants. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2018). BEXIT and Project Europe. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2018). European Economic Integration: Troubles in the Eurozone. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2018). Does emigration reduce corruption? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). The benefits of joining a monetary union for high inflation economies with weak governments. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Potential trade-offs between inflation and unemployment in the European context. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Asymmetric shocks and monetary union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2017). Does Emigration Reduce Corruption? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2017). Minority Education in the Post-Soviet Space: The case of Latvia's 2004 Minority Education Reform. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Costs and benefits of a monetary union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2017). Together or Apart: Attitudes toward multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-Independence Kosovo. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). The role of Factors of Production in international trade theory. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). The link between productivity growth and inflation in transition economies. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Identifying winners and losers from international trade. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Explaining the concept of Comparative Advantage: verbally, graphically, mathematically. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Demand and Supply Considerations in International Trade Theory. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2017). Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage in International Trade Theory. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Market for Goods and Services, Del 5. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2016). Attitudes toward joining the EU in Kosovo: Do migration, gender and ethnicity matter? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Market for Goods and Services, Del 4. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Financial Markets, Del 5. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Financial Markets, Del 2. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Financial Markets, Del 1. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Market for Goods and Services, Del 2. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Market for Goods and Services, Del 1. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Market for Goods and Services, Del 3. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2016). To Europe or not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Financial Markets, Del 4. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). European Economic Integration: Financial Markets, Del 3. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2016). Difficulties With Interdisciplinarity in Academia. Full text in Research Archive
• Ivlevs, Artjoms & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Does emigration reduce corruption in the countries of origin? Household-level evidence for Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Macroeconomic Policy in the New EU Member States: Game Theory Application to Economic Policy Design. Endogenous Economic Policy. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Macroeconomic Policy in the New EU member states: Booms and Recessions in the National Economy. Application of the Mundell-Fleming Model. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Endogenous Limits to Export-Led Growth. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Institution Formation in Post-Communist Societies: Spontaneous Evolution or Conscious Design? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria Berta (2015). Serving Whom? Re-Acquainting the Financial Sector with the Real Economy. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2014). Does Emigration Reduce Corruption in the Countries of Origin? Household Level Evidence from the Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2014). The role of migration and ethnicity in explaining public support for the EU in the Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2014). Does Emigration Reduce Corruption in the Countries of Origin? Household Level Evidence from the Western Balkans. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2014). European Economic Integration: Trade Integration. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2014). Macroeconomic Policy in the New EU Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2014). European Economic Integration: Monetary Integration. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2013). Liberating Kosovo: Coercive diplomacy and U.S. intervention, by David L. Phillips (Book review). Nationalities Papers. ISSN 0090-5992. 41(4), p. 686–688. doi: 10.1080/00905992.2013.802410. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2013). European Economic Integration (1). Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2013). European Economic Integration (2). Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2013). Macroeconomic Policy in the New EU Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Borgersen, Trond-Arne (2013). Export-Led Growth in Transition Economies. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2012). Gender, ethnicity and migration?: Explaining aspirations to join the EU in post-independence Kosovo. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Relating Debt to Inflation among Transition Economies - A Blueprint from Mature Economies? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Ivlevs, Artjoms (2012). Gender, ethnicity and migration? Explaining aspirations to join the EU in post-independence Kosovo. Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Relating Debt to Inflation among Transition Economies - A Blueprint from Mature Economies? Full text in Research Archive
• Borgersen, Trond Arne & King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Relating Debt to Inflation among Transition Economies - A Blueprint from Mature Economies? Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Muravska, Tatjana (2012). Peripheral regional universities – what role within the Baltic Regional Forum? Baltic Rim Economies. ISSN 1795-5076. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Political business cycles in the New EU Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Economic Booms and Recessions in Eastern Europe. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Policy games: Policy Analysis with game theory. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Theory of international trade: Demand and Supply considerations - in the context of eastward expansion of the European Union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Factors of Production - a key to understanding European Trade Integration. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). The Balassa-Samuelson Effect in the context of Eastward expansion of the European Union and Eurozone. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage in the New EU Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). The Barro-Gordon model in the context of European Economic integration and Eastward expansion. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Winners and losers from international trade: Competitiveness in the European Union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Money and interest rates; Exchange rates and the balance of payments. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Fiscal Policy in the Mundell-Fleming Model under flexible and fixed exchange rates with application to the European Union's New Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Monetary policy in the Mundell-Fleming model under flexible and fixed exchange rates with application to the European Union's New Member States. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Time Inconsistency in the Macroeconomic Policy Process. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Short-term and long-term Phillips Curve in the context of European Economic Integration. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). The inflation bias in democratically governed societies. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Asymmetric shocks and monetary union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2012). Costs and benefits of a monetary union. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Borgersen, Trond Arne (2012). Export-Led Growth in Transition Economies: The role of industrial structure, productivity growth differentials and cross-sectoral subsidies. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2011). Perspectives on interdisciplinarity in academia. Høgskolen i Østfold. ISSN 9788278253557. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria (2011). Conversations with civil servants: East European public administration reform in search of socio-economic development. Høgskolen i Østfold. ISSN 9788278253564. Full text in Research Archive
• King, Roswitha Maria & Borgersen, Trond Arne (2011). When Balassa-Samuelson comes to Maastricht: debt-sustainability, growth and transition. Høgskolen i Østfold. ISSN 9788278253434. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A dynamic stability approach is applied to show how the debt-servicing ability of transition/developing economies exceeds that of mature market economies. At the core of this debt-servicing advantage lies not only relatively higher growth but more importantly the productivity- and efficiency gains released by the re-allocation and restructuring activities originating in the developing economies’ unbalanced sectoral growth. First, the dynamic stability approach is extended to allow for two sectors of production, allowing both growth and sectoral composition to matter for stability and the debt-to-GDP ratio. Second, sector sizes are endogenized to depend on the productivity growth difference. The model shows how the equilibrium debt-to-GDP ratio depends on both an economy’s existing industrial structure as well as on its structural flexibility and how it varies along a country’s transition trajectory. All things considered, how much debt relative to GDP a country can (or should) sustain is highly context specific and depends on the prevailing economic structure, composition of growth, structural flexibility, and the prevailing incentives for restructuring. Hence this paper delivers a cautionary note toward the one-size-fits-all approach to debt sustainability

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