Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe: Recent submissions
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The Problem of Social Protection in Albania
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-04-30)The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a ... -
An Assessment of the Implementation of Performance Budgeting in Poland with Reference to the Experiences of Other Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-04-30)Since the last global financial crisis, public expenditures have been experiencing increasing budget constraints. Therefore, public authorities search for solutions that would foster efficient and transparent expenditures ... -
Regional Products in the Central and Eastern European Countries that Acceded to the European Union in May 2004
Feltynowski, Marcin
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-04-30)
This article presents the activities of the Central European countries which are members of the EU since 2004 in their registration of regional products. The presented data shows how many products were registered within ... -
European Union Foreign Direct Investment Outflows to ASEAN Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-04-30)The paper analyses foreign direct investment outflows from the European Union to the ASEAN countries. The region of Southeast Asia is very important for the EU in terms of economic cooperation. Previous relations between ... -
On Misspecification of Spatial Weight Matrix for Small Area Estimation in Longitudinal Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The problem of prediction of subpopulation (domain) total is studied as in Rao (2003). Considerations are based on spatially correlated longitudinal data. The domain of interest can be defined after sample selection what ... -
Multicountry and Regional Macroeconometric Models
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)Multicountry models were developed in the previous century to serve the analyses and projections of the world economy and/or its regions (for instance Latin America). They distinguish the largest countries and the rest of ... -
Comparative Analysis of the Level of Knowledge-Based Part of Economies in European Union Countries with Kam Methodology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The purpose of this article is to identify disparities in the use of knowledge in socio-economic life in the EU countries. This research was conducted with use of the cluster analysis (tools belonging to multidimensional ... -
Land Management of the Areas of High Landscape Values: An Economic Model
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)This paper presents selected results of the research entitled Planning the Space of High Landscape Values, Using Digital Land Analysis, with Economic Appraisal, supervised by Dr. Paweł Ozimek, Cracow Technical University, ... -
Spatial Quantile Regression
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)In a number of applications, a crucial problem consists in describing and analyzing the influence of a vector Xi of covariates on some real-valued response variable Yi. In the present context, where the observations are ... -
European Regional Space Classification Regarding Smart Growth Level
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The paper presented classification results including European regional space positional statistics regarding advancement and smart growth level in NUTS 2 regions. Regional smart growth covers three pillars: innovation, ... -
Measuring Cost Efficiency Of Ukrainian Banks In 2008
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The paper presents the results of a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of cost-efficiency of Ukrainian banks. As of lack of data on the personnel costs, we had to set limits to the year of 2008 only. To modeling banking ... -
Smart Specialization of Workforce Structure in the European Union Countries – Dynamic Analysis Applying Shift-Share Analysis Method
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The performed research also allowed for the identification different kinds of workforce structure characterized by smart specialization (significant share of workforce in high-tech manufacturing sector or high-tech services ... -
Spatially Integrated Social Research and Official Statistics: Methodological Remarks and Empirical Results on Local Development
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)This paper aims to elucidate some aspects of confluence of thedevelopments in modern methods of spatial analysis and in the public statistics’data generating processes, along with empirical illustration of theseinterconnections ... -
Dynamics of Change in Spatial Dependencies in Blood Donation System in Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)Blood donation allows to obtain blood and its components from healthy people in a bid to help treatment of anonymous individuals, relying on timely and sufficient supplies of matching blood. Being a social initiative, it ... -
Spatial Analysis of the Labour Market by Using Econometric Tools. The Case of Lower Silesia Region (Dolnośląskie Voivodship)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)This paper presents the application of econometric techniques to examinethe labour market in Lower Silesia. First the analysis was performed on a dataset for variables connected with labour market recorded in poviats (NUTS ... -
The Analysis of the Life Expectancy and the Selected Causes of Deaths in Poland with the Use of Spatial Statistics Methods
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The goal of the presented research was to test the spatial autocorrelation of the life expectancy and the age-standardized mortality rates for selected causes of death in Poland according to gender in 2010. It was assumed ... -
Prolific Inventor Productivity and Mobility: A Western/Asian com-parison. Evidence from US Patent Data for 12 Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)This paper provides new insights into the role of individual inventors inthe innovation process. Individuals are central in this creative process becauseinnovation is not simply a product of firms and organizations; it ... -
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Unemployment Rate in Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The aim of this paper is to present results of spatio-temporal analysis of unemployment rate in Poland, with the usage of advanced spatial econometric methods. The analysis was done on data collected for ‘powiat’ level ... -
Transport Availability vs. Development of Poland’S Regions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)The article discusses the issue of transport availability, taking into account road and rail infrastructure, as compared with socio-economic development in specific regions of Poland. The issue is studied from the theoretical ... -
Selected Challenges From Spatial Statistics For Spatial Econometricians
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-03-08)Griffith and Paelinck (2011) present selected non-standard spatial statistics and spatial econometrics topics that address issues associated with spatial econometric methodology. This paper addresses the following challenges ...