{"id":214,"date":"2013-05-16T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/luka\/?p=214"},"modified":"2013-05-22T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:20:39","slug":"slovenia-family-silver-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/2013\/05\/16\/slovenia-family-silver-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia: family silver for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My quotes in new Financial Times piece on Slovenia:<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning up the bank sector, and quickly, is crucial to kick-starting the economy, says Luka Ore\u0161kovi\u0107, head of research at Provectus Capital, a Zagreb-based corporate advisory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlovenia is an industrial country with strong exporting companies that were driving growth. These companies have to start borrowing again, and that needs a sound banking sector, so the state bank bad debt holdings have to be resolved,\u201d he told beyondbrics.<\/p>\n<p>But the timetable, given the task, appears very tight.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first transfer to state banks: the previous [examples] only resulted in a growing percentage of bad debt rather than a reversal of trends. It is of course ideal to privatise them, but amid the uncertainty, this might prove hard,\u201d Ore\u0161kovi\u0107 says.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/beyond-brics\/2013\/05\/13\/slovenia-family-silver-for-sale\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My quotes in new Financial Times piece on Slovenia: Cleaning up the bank sector, and quickly, is crucial to kick-starting the economy, says Luka Ore\u0161kovi\u0107, head of research at Provectus Capital, a Zagreb-based corporate advisory. \u201cSlovenia is an industrial country with strong exporting companies that were driving growth. These companies have to start borrowing again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60632,1807,81744,81751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citations","category-europe","category-privatization","category-slovenia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}