Four classification models of economic bankruptcy of farms based on panel data are presented in the article. The modelling techniques are linear discrimination function, pooled probit model, random effects probit model and artificial neural network. They give very similar quality of...

Financial ratios in farms integrated in FADN system were analyzed in the paper. The farms were situated in the Mazowsze and Podlasie regions. A particular attention was paid to liquidity and debt ratios. The liquidity ratios achieved the highest value in small, average-small and average-big...

The aim of this research is to verify the hypothesis of the weak form efficiency of capital market. The research is conducted for the WIG-Spożywczy index. In the paper, Wald-Wolfowitz’s test, Quenouille’s test of autocorrelation coefficients, the test of joint autocorrelation with Ljung-...

The last important price changes within the food delivery chain caused a growth of food prices and a higher inflation rate. In the face of those circumstances the activities for improvement of food delivery chain have become very important, since it affects directly all citizens. The analysis...

The paper presents an analysis of innovativeness in Polish food processing industry enterprises before and after the Polish integration into the European Union. Data published by the Central Statistical Office were used. The analysis proved that the integration into the European Union and the...

The purpose of this study is an attempt to show the distribution of financing investments and operation in agricultural farms between various sources of capital. The investigated sample of agricultural farms was divided into groups according to their economic size. The analysis showed that the...

The aim of this study was to construct a logit model for categorical dependent variables denoting enterprise financial distress. In this case, financial data of 36 companies were used. A membership in one of three classes: a risk of bankruptcy, an unspecified financial situation or a correct...

A method of interval estimation of the difference of two means in the case of simultaneous violations of assumptions of normal distribution of variables and homogeneity of their variance is presented in this paper. In literature, the proposed method is described as an adaptive confidence...

The investigation concerned 41 milk cooperatives in years 2002-2005. The results indicate that Polish accession to the European Union positively influenced the levels of sales profitability, assets value, own capital and employment. The degree of current liquidity slightly diminished but that of...

The influence of international trade on the growth of GDP has undergone some changes in time. The paper presents national trade between Poland and Russia with a special emphasis on the agro-food trade. The paper includes an estimation of the effects in Polish national income obtained through...