The article analyses the impact of the social security system reformed in 1999 on the state of public finance in Poland. The influence of public transfers to pension funds on the creation of budget deficit and public debt was studied in the context of the Maastricht convergence criteria.

One of the basic features of the European Union is the existence of a distance between countries – literally, in geographical sense and implicitly – the development gap. The second, especially, is the subject of this deliberation. In the theoretical part of this paper the basic idea of...

Associated mainly with Mathematics, Philosophy and technical inventions, J. M. Hoene-Wroński proved to be - one of the first among Poles – author of the concept of a European federation. Due to a dispersion of these considerations amongst several publications, this concept has not been widely...

The paper addresses the issue of the economic basis of state aid law. Increasing role of the economic analysis in state aid cases is the result of the new Commission plan of modernization and limitation of state aid in Europe called Less and Better Targeted Aid.

International financial crisis of the recent years has discovered weaknesses in the international financial architecture, including in particular the inadequacy of prudential regulations, also in the European Union. The collapse of financial markets influenced negatively the indicators of...

Globalization and the establishment of transnational corporations lead to a situation, where the same concentration is reviewed in parallel by different national competition authorities. Such mergers are described as multi-jurisdictional mergers or transnational mergers. The article deals with...

The perennial conflict between the supporters of market solutions and interventionism is based on contrasting the market with regulation. The aim of this article is to analyze the opportunities and threats faced by alternative regulation mechanisms from the perspective of the crisis in the...

This article aims to analyze whether and to what extent financial integration affects the choices of exchange rate systems, made in advanced economies and emerging and developing economies. The study revealed that the process of harmonization of exchange rate systems in advanced economies and...

The article illustrates the process of the restitution of property within the boundaries of the former GDR. It presents the initial arrangements in this regard between the two German states, concluded in Joint Declaration and Unification Treaty, which provided an obligation to return assets...

An objective of a paper is to compare views of liberal economy and interventionism to a labour market and labour market policy. It is a ground for discussing a concept of labour market in a transition economy.