Levent Şahin, Dilek Kutluay Şahin (2020/6, Miscellanea,
Impact of Industrial Robot Use on Exports in European Countries – an Empirical Analysis
In this paper, the relationship between the volume of export and the number of industrial robots in the selected European countries is examined by using the simultaneous equation models. Panel data of Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are used. The study covers (...)
Marian Gorynia (2020/5, Book Reviews,
Ханна Г. Адамкевич: Международная конкурентоспособность стран
Agnieszka Domańska (2020/3, Articles,
The article aims to analyse on a comparative basis the effects of public investment spending on the economies of Poland and Portugal in the period 1996–2017. In the economic theory, there are divergent opinions as to the impact of expansionary fiscal policy on economic growth. The direct and indirect impact of the increasing government spending on the economy is one of the key questions in (...)
Andrzej Sławiński (2020/2, Articles,
30 Years of Economic Transition in Poland from Central Bank Perspective
The successful economic transition in Poland was reflected in the uninterrupted GDP growth after stabilization and liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s. What helped to put economy on an equilibrium growth path was joining the European GVCs which facilitated a rapid buildup of export potential. During the global financial crisis of the 2007–2009 Poland was not seized by a banking (...)
Sławomir Kalinowski (2019/1, Articles,
Employment Precarisation in the Contemporary Economy
The issue of employment insecurity in the perspective of economy uberisation was discussed in the paper. The paper is a contribution to discussion on growing employment insecurity and atypical, substandard forms of employment. It was underlined that growing importance of insecure employment forms, coupled with relatively lower competitiveness of individuals performing this kind of work (...)
Piotr Rubaj, Elżbieta Ważna (2018/4, Miscellanea,
Introducing Common Currency in Poland and competitiveness of the Economy
This study develops a multilevel model of academic performance for Polish economists and investigates several factors correlated with individual publishing outcome. The data used are based on articles in the domain of economics published between 1999 and 2012 in five leading Polish journals and in foreign journals listed in Scopus and in Web of Science. The study argues that scientific (...)
Circular Economy as an Alternative Environment Oriented Economic Concept for Ukraine
Globalization processes and European integration of Ukraine require the consideration of a complex system of international norms in the state policy development. The priority direction of international organizations’ activity in the sphere of economy is sustainable development, in order to ensure the implementation of the goals of which there is a need for the introduction of a circular (...)
Krzysztof Wach (2017/5, Book Reviews,
Roman Wosiek (2017/5, Conferences and seminars,
Magdalena Olczyk (2017/5, Articles,
The Concept of International competitiveness: A Bibliometric Approach
The aim of this paper is to present the results of meta-analysis carried out on the basis of bibliometric data of literature on international competitiveness published over the last 70 years and registered in the Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Econlit databases, using HistCite, Vosviewer and Pajek. The author tries to identify key publications, key authors and main research (...)
Łukasz Ambroziak (2017/5, Articles,
The aim of the paper was to assess the competitive position of ten new EU member states of Central Eastern Europe in the trade in high and medium-high technology goods in the period 1995–2011. The competitive position in the trade in such goods is considered as an indicator of the country’s innovativeness. The assessment of this position of individual countries of the group was based on (...)
Adam Karbowski (2017/1, Articles,
Knowledge sub-system encompassing innovation, research and education is one of the key institutional domains that constitute each national economy. Over the last fifteen years the knowledge sub-systems have undergone profound transformation to emerge as the main motors of industrial competitiveness, growth and development in a globalized world. This paper thoroughly reviews the large body (...)
Piotr Rubaj (2016/2, Miscellanea,
The aim of the paper is to present various models of social policy applied in different regions of the world and to assess the chances of the development of the ‘welfare state’ policy in the conditions of a rising international economic competition. The implementation of the ‘welfare state’ policy in the Western Hemisphere gives rise to a conflict between the common expectation of generous (...)
Monika Kondratiuk-Nierodzińska (2016/1, Articles,
Technological Knowledge Creation and competitiveness of Economies
The aim of the article is to analyse the dependence between the innovation activity, notably the ability to create new technological knowledge, and the competitiveness of economies. The author disusses fi rst the main factors that determine the competitiveness of economies, with special consideration of innovation capacity, and various measures applied in this respect. The empirical (...)
Marlena Dzikowska (2013/3, Articles,
The Value Chain Module Relocation and Company Competitveness
The article focuses on the relocation of the company’s value chain modules. Relocation is defined as a process of moving some or all of the tasks performed by an economic entity to a vendor operating in the same country or abroad, who is or is not related by ownership structures to the relocating company. In the paper this issue is analyzed from the perspective of company competitiveness (...)
Grażyna Kozuń-Cieślak (2013/3, Articles,
The Effectiveness of Public Investment in Human Capital
Human capital is one of the major factors responsible for economic development; investments made in the human capital add to the wealth of nations, accelerating civilization progress and increasing international competitiveness. The aim of the article is to assess the effectiveness of public investments in human capital in the EU member countries using the linear programming method called (...)
Michał Jurek (2013/2, Articles,
The article aims to analyze what macroeconomic circumstances support the maintenance of stable exchange rate of CEE countries currencies against the euro. In order to achieve this target, the author presents the evolution of the exchange rate regimes in CEE countries in the period of 1999-2011, as well as the results of logit analysis used in order to reveal what macroeconomic features (...)
Joanna Kotowicz-Jawor (2012/2, Book Reviews,
Anna Gardocka-Jałowiec (2012/1, Articles,
R&D Expenditures and the Innovativeness of the Polish Economy
With the adoption of the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, Poland faced an ambitious task of stimulating research and development activities, which are undoubtedly the base of any innovative and competitive economy. The assumptions of the Lisbon Strategy, which were to be carried out by 2010, appeared to be too ambitious for Poland, as well as most other EU states. Now, with the adoption of the new (...)
Jan Rymarczyk (2011/6, Book Reviews,
The potential accession to the euro zone is a very current issue for Poland. Its importance is increased by the consequences of the recent economic crisis that can be seen in the global economy and particularly in the economies of EU member states. The article presents some findings of studies carried out within the research project “Influence of the accession of Poland to the euro zone on (...)
Andrzej Czyżewski, Sebastian Stępień (2011/1, Articles,
Common Agricultural Policy of the EU After 2013 and the Interests of the Polish Agriculture
The paper presents some proposals as to the changes of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) in the context of the development needs of Poland’s agriculture. The ultimate decisions of the European Commission on the subject are to be taken in July 2011, just at the beginning of the Polish presidency in the EU. It is important that new regulations are conducive to the (...)
Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak (2010/3, Miscellanea,
The article describes the development experience of India since its nascency as a dem ocratic state in 1947. The early adopted economic system of the so-called “Indian socialism”, which included both elements of a free market and of central planning, failed to bring the expected results. The Indian economy experienced slow growth. and India’s share in the Asian and world economy was (...)
Piotr Dominiak (2008/6, Book Reviews,
Adam Lipowski (2008/3, Articles,
The author presents model of rivalry among firms that constitutes a new theoretical concept in microeconomics. Using this model one is able to describe causal relation between competition and the long term dynamics of competitiveness of output. This faculty is absent in the equilibrium-based models of competition. The author builds his model on two, different from traditional approaches (...)
Grzegorz W. Kołodko (2007/6, Articles,
Two-thirds of Success. Systemic Transformation in Poland and Lessons for the Future
Postsocialist transformation must be seen against the background of ongoing globalization. The progress toward institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on countrys development abilities. In Poland, over eighteen years of comprehensive systemic shift, GDP has increased more than in any other postsocialist country. While judging the transformation (...)