Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trigger, significantly increasing the level of...

Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trigger, significantly increasing the level of...

The article examines the issue of labour share convergence between Western Europe (EU15) and Central and Eastern Europe (EU11). The results of our research show that for the period of 2009–2018, the convergence of labour share between the EU11 and the EU15 at the aggregate level was almost...

This article analyzes the growth of the economy of the Baltic States and its sustainability before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify the reasons for the differences in the economic growth of the Baltic countries, a comparison of the main indicators of international competitiveness...

Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trigger, significantly increasing the level of...

The paper deals with the issues of investment of hybrid and public venture capital funds. The results show that hybrid and public venture capital funds in Latvia in most cases are the first investors. Only a smaller part of these investments are investments of the early stages of funding. The...

The primary goal of the article is to study the effect of the single tax introduction for the micro-enterprises in Latvia. The major aspects affected by the new regime introduction studied in the present article were net registration of micro-enterprises, the employment level in the country, the...

The current article examines the tendencies, amounts and sources of financing for the whole population of micro-enterprises (hereinafter referred to as MEs) in one country. The changes in the amounts and the structure of ME financing with regard to the three main sources – bank loans, leasing...

The current article examines the issue of financing the micro-enterprises of Latvia by venture capital funds. It considers the number of applications submitted by enterprises to venture capital funds, the number of investments and the amount of the financing granted to enterprises in general and...

The positive changes in the rates of innovation performance for the EU-27, according to the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS), show that the annual average growth rates of the leading countries - Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Germany - have significantly decreased during the post-crisis period...