Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe: Recent submissions
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Potential and Possible Ways of Harmonizing the Personal Income Taxation Process
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Personal income tax (hereinafter referred to as PIT) has a short history, as it appeared in tax systems of EU countries as late as at the end of the 18th century. As a specific universal structure it performs two economic ... -
Implementing the Main Circular Economy Principles within the Concept of Sustainable Development in the Global and European economy, with Particular Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe – the Case of Poland and the Region of Lodz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The aim of the article is to present the effects of selected activities implemented at the global, European and regional levels within the idea of sustainable development. Of particular importance here is the presentation ... -
Determinants of Pakistan’s Exports: An Econometric Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The research investigated the determinants of Pakistan’s exports by using time series data from 1990–2016. Certain econometric tests were also applied to check cointegration among variables. A unit root test was used to ... -
A Comparative Cross‑Cultural Analysis of the Profile of A Modern Ukrainian Manager: the Imperatives of the Future in the Context of Internationalization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The preliminary results of the development of the initial theoretical, methodological and applied methodological provisions for the study of the profile of a modern Ukrainian manager are presented in the context of predicting ... -
The Environmental, Social and Governance Aspects of Social Responsibility Indices – A Comparative Analysis of European SRI Indices
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)An increasing number of investors want to invest their capital not only with profit but also responsibly, and they pay significant attention to the formula of socially responsible investing (SRI), which means that they ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Innovative Pharmaceutical Corporations. The Case of BIOGEN
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The aim of this paper is to discuss the common features and specificity of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of innovative transnational corporations (TNCs) acting in the pharmaceutical industry. The ... -
FDI Inspired Energy Consumption in Selected Emerging Markets: Does Financial Development Matter?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The study investigated the impact of the complementarity between foreign direct investment (FDI) and financial development on energy consumption in emerging markets. Although the relevance of the FDI‑led energy consumption ... -
Competitiveness as the Ability to Adjust: the EU–10 Exports Structure and Its Convergence to the German Pattern
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)Competitiveness of a nation is associated with a set of characteristics that enable structural adjustment to global technological trends, and as a consequence, a rise in the living standard of its citizens. For catching-up ... -
Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)Based on the assumption that the economic integration process contributes, via market reforms, to the dynamics of the space distribution in candidate countries, this study examines (i) whether agglomeration forces or ... -
Normative Versus Positive Approach to Fiscal Decentralisation and the Measures of Decentralisation. An Analysis based on the Example of Selected Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)This article deals with the problem of a discrepancy between the recommendations of the theory of public finance, in its various trends, and decentralisation processes in practice. The analysis is both theoretical and ... -
Towards the Goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy: Convergence or Divergence of the European Union Countries?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)The aim of this article is to investigate the similarities between the EU countries in terms of achieving the Europe 2020 Strategy goals. Due to the latest data availability, the analysis is based on the year 2014. The ... -
Competitiveness of the Baltic States in International High-Technology Goods Trade
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)The aim of the article is to assess the international competitiveness of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) in high-technology goods trade. To this end, Balassa’s method of analysing revealed comparative ... -
Are Poland and Ukraine Gravity Centres for Each Other? Study on the Labour Migration Patterns
Sokołowicz, Mariusz
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)
The paper consists of three parts. It starts with an introduction followed, by theoretical backgrounds of migration, outlining its main types and models. The next parts highlight the volume, directions and structure of ... -
EU-Korea FTA and Its Impact on V4 Economies. A Comparative Analysis of Trade Sophistication and Intra-Industry Trade
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-03-20)This paper investigates selected short- and mid-term effects in trade in goods between the Visegrad countries (V4: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic) and the Republic of Korea under the framework ... -
The Determinants and the Size of International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe After 2004
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)Migration is a very important socio‑economic issue in the contemporary world. One of the interesting and pertinent research problems worth considering concerns the scale and nature of migration from countries which entered ... -
Effects of Poland’s Pro‑Export Policy Implementation in the Context of the Plan for Responsible Development – a Preliminary Comparative Assessment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)The aim of this paper is to present the results of a preliminary assessment of Poland’s export expansion policy in relation to the export of commodities, which is a result of the Government’s Plan for Responsible Development, ... -
Personal Finances vs. the Overall Economic Conditions: What Drives the New EU Member States’ Stock Markets?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)This paper analyses the leading characteristics of the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) with respect to stock market returns for 11 New EU Member States. It proposes novel CCI weights by minimizing mean squared errors from ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility: the Challenges and Constraints
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)This article discusses the chances and vulnerabilities of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on two main levels: the small and medium sector at a local level; and big corporations at the macro and international levels. ... -
Monetary Policy Transmission and the Labour Market in the Non‑eurozone Visegrad Group Countries in 2000–2014. Evidence from a SVAR Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)This paper is aimed at filling the gap in existing economic research by delivering new evidence on the money‑labour nexus in the emerging markets of the non‑eurozone Visegrad group countries (i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary ... -
The Evolution of Financial Integration on Selected European Stock Markets: a Dynamic Principal Component Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-12-29)The goal of this paper is to recognize the dynamics of financial integration across the European stock markets over the last two decades. We investigate two groups of markets: (1) three developed European markets in the ...