Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe: Recent submissions
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Diversification Perspectives of a Single Equity Market: Analysis on the Example of Selected CEE Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-17)The study addresses the benefits of a unified stock market in terms of diversification risk for the eight CEE stock markets. For this purpose, each stock market was treated as a separate portfolio based on the companies ... -
Economic Development and Growth in Central and Eastern Europe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-17)The study investigates the economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe in the last 25 years. The economy can be regarded as a substantial topic in any country, but it is even more interesting in developing countries. One ... -
The Development and Transformation of the Bank Card Market as an Imperative for Digitalization: the Case of Central and Eastern European Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-17)The purpose of this study is to determine the development trends of the major determinants of the bank card market in eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the period from 2010 to 2019. Continuing a study carried ... -
Institutional Quality and its Impact on FDI Inflow: Evidence from the EU Member States
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-17)The aim of the article is to assess institutional quality in 28 EU Member States and to examine the relationship between the quality of institutions and FDI inward stock as % of GDP. This study is structured as follows. ... -
Dynamic Linkages between Social Expenditures and Economic Growth: the Most Important Conclusions for Central European Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-17)The role of the state within the neoliberal system is discussed in the approaches developed for social expenditures. Accordingly, the question of whether the state should stand back or provide the support needed by individuals ... -
Inequality and Students’ PISA 2018 Performance: a Cross-Country Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between countries’ PISA study results from 2018 and a set of indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Dynamic Interactions between European and Indonesian Cocoa Markets during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2011 European Debt Crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)This study empirically explores the dynamic interactions between the European and Indonesian cocoa markets during the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and the 2011 European debt crisis (EDC) using a battery of time series ... -
Analyzing and Strategizing the Development of Entrepreneurial Activity Based on the Principles of Increasing Productivity (Illustrated by the Example of Developed Countries and Ukraine)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of productivity in developed countries, including EU countries and Ukraine. Hypotheses about the identity of the deindustrialization factor as the main cause for ... -
Dilemmas of Sheltered Employment in Poland and Greece and the Concept of Supported Employment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)People with severe disabilities, such as severe mental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders, do not participate in the open, competitive labor market to the same extent as people without disabilities or other forms ... -
Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Global Resource Mobility. What Can Be Expected from It?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on business, government, and society is getting more attention. The leading AI sectors have higher productivity but a lower share of GDP than those lagging in digitization and AI. ... -
Ways to Overcome Poverty and Income Inequality in the Context of New Global Challenges: the Most Important Conclusions for Ukraine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The article examines the risks of deepening poverty and income inequality that arise from global challenges of population aging, job losses due to shrinking sales markets, trade wars, long-term quarantine and compliance ... -
A Review of the Impact of the Digital Transformation on the Global and European Economy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The paper aims to present digital transformation as a process that has been taking place in the digital economy and the European Union’s economy in recent years and its impact on changes in the economic and social sphere. ... -
Accountability on Sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe: An Empirical Assessment of Sustainability-Related Assurance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The paper explores how companies from Central and Eastern Europe adopt assurance practices to provide accountability for sustainability. Drawing on modified coding rules from prior research, a conventional content analysis ... -
Mining, Poverty, and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern European Countries: What Do the Data Tell Us?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-21)The study investigates the effect of mining on both poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) using econometric estimation methods with panel data spanning from 2009 to 2019. Another ... -
Does Social Trust Influence Charitable Giving for NGOs?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The purpose of the paper is to find a link between the level of NGOs’ revenues and the trust in non‑governmental organisations (NGOs). We investigate if social trust, as measured by the Charities Aid Foundation, influences ... -
Consumer Behaviour in the Accommodation Services Market – a Comparison of Vienna, Bratislava and Prague in 2018
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The paper aims to compare three accommodation services markets using empirical data from more than 250 accommodation facilities in specific destinations (Vienna, Bratislava, Prague). The data are available on a daily basis, ... -
The Persistence of Suicides in G20 Countries between 1990 and 2017: an SPSM Approach to Three Generations of Unit Root Tests
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Suicides represent an encompassing measure of psychological wellbeing, emotional stability as well as life satisfaction, and they have been recently identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major global health ... -
The Restructuring of the European Pharmaceutical Industry between 2000 and 2018
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)To meet the requirements of global competition, the European Union (EU) places particular emphasis on the development of knowledge‑intensive, innovative industries. The pharmaceutical industry, as a high‑tech manufacturing ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Trade and Industrial Policies of Ukraine and China in the Context of the Obor Initiative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The world economy is evolving towards multipolar globalization, and China has become a new pole of economic development. Ukraine, like other countries, is looking for ways to cooperate with China in the field of trade and ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates between the BRICS and G7 Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)This paper examines the predictive ability of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates in the BRICS and G7 countries by relating each country’s monthly 3‑month Treasury bill rate to 10‑year ...