Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe: Ostatnio dodane
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Are Central Banks in CEE Countries Concerned about the Burden of Public Debt?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-03-09)The aim of this study is to analyze the monetary policy rules in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, with public debt as an additional explanatory variable. We estimate linear rules by the GMM estimation and non-linear ... -
Does a Progressive PIT Stabilize the Economy? A Comparison of Progressive and Flat Taxes
Krajewski, Piotr
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-03-09)
The aim of the article is to examine the impact of progressive personal income tax rates and the effectiveness of this tax as an automatic economic stabilizer. The assessment of automatic stabilizers is based on the estimates ... -
Determinants of Productivity of Ukrainian Firms
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-03-09)This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) of Ukrainian firms in manufacturing and services, using micro-level data for the years 2005 and 2013. We first estimate regressions for the pooled ... -
Spatial Quantile Regression In Analysis Of Healthy Life Years In The European Union Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The paper investigates the impact of the selected factors on the healthy life years of men and women in the EU countries. The multiple quantile spatial autoregression models are used in order to account for substantial ... -
Determinants Of Healthy Ageing For Older People In European Countries – A Spatio-Temporal Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The article aims to investigate the relationship between the length of the further life in healthy for men and women aged 65 years and selected factors in European countries in the period 2005-2012. For this purpose, ... -
Using Space Syntax For Estimation Of Potential Disaster Indirect Economic Losses
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The study of applicable network measures shows that Normalised Angular Choice can be used as criteria for selecting alternatives for minimizing indirect costs caused by road network damages. At the same time, this methodology ... -
Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Performance In West And South Regions Of Ukraine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)This study examines variations in efficiency among hospitals located in western and southern Ukraine. We estimated efficiency using a nonparemetric modeling technique known as data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a very ... -
The Assessment Of Geographical Borders In Economic Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The length of common border between two geographical units is frequently used as a basic weight in spatial analysis. The newest methodological propositions such as tests for hierarchical relations (Markowska et. al. 2014; ... -
What Affects The Ability To Accumulate The Best Applicants By Russian Universities? The Application Of Quantile Regression Model
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)Our findings might be useful for the governmental authorities during the universities’ assessment as well as for the higher education institutions themselves - in order to define their strategic development and attract ... -
The Importance Of Human Capital For The Economic Development Of EU Regions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)According to the research results, the highest levels of human capital are typical of the most affluent regions in Western Europe, while its lowest levels are found in the poorest countries that became EU members only ... -
Analysis Of The EU Anti-dumping Policy In Terms Of The Revealed Comparative Advantages
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The aim of the paper is to determine the proportion of goods covered by anti-dumping proceedings in the value of import conducted by the European Union between 1995-2012. In the empirical research the eight-digit commodity ... -
The Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis For Transport Accessibility In Selected Regions Of The European Union
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)The main purpose of this article is to assess and analyze the occurrence of spatial autocorrelation in connection with the transport accessibility (measured by density of a motorway network). The general hypothesis is: ... -
A Statistical Toolbox For Mining And Modeling Spatial Data
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-02-08)Most data mining projects in spatial economics start with an evaluation of a set of attribute variables on a sample of spatial entities, looking for the existence and strength of spatial autocorrelation, based on the Moran’s ... -
The Finance Growth Link: Comparative Analysis of Two Eastern African Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)This paper examines the finance growth link of two low-income Sub-Saharan African economies – Ethiopia and Kenya – which have different financial systems but are located in the same region. Unlike previous studies, we ... -
Social Innovations in Companies and in Social Economy Enterprises
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)The paper also shows the links between issues of internal social innovations and positive employment relationships. The presented research findings prove that positive relationships among employees are significantly and ... -
The Canadian Unemployment Insurance Generosity: Reflections from a Comparative Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)The unemployment compensation system is at the centre of the current economic and political debate in many Western countries which, under the effects of the increase in public debt, must decide the level of their unemployment ... -
The Polish Regional Labour Market Welfare Indicator and Its Links to Other Well-being Measures
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)We propose and construct an indicator of labour market well-being in Poland for the year 2013. The indicator is positively related to the degree of civilizational welfare, social welfare, material welfare and psychological ... -
Economic Growth, Corporate Earnings and Equity Returns: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)This paper discusses the links between economic growth, corporate earnings and stock returns. Cross-country correlation studies do not confirm the intuitive assumption that higher returns on equities are more likely in the ... -
Evaluation of the Macroeconomic Stability of Central and Eastern European Countries with a View Toward their Membership in the European Union. Multidimensional Risk Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)The shapes of the macroeconomic stabilisation pentagon for CEEC economies in 2014 shows that none of the analysed countries is characterised by total filling of the pentagon. This means that the economic situation in these ... -
Do Government Policies Foster Environmental Performance of Enterprises from CEE Region?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-09-24)In recent years, EU countries, including these from the Central Eastern European (CEE) region has recognised, that eco-innovation should be treated as strategic priority of their economies. The aim of this paper is to ...