Growth in popularity of computer (video) games is a noticeable change in recent years. Electronic entertainment increasingly engages the wider society and reaches to new audiences by offering them satisfy of wide variety of needs and aspirations. As a mass media games not only provide...

Polish Abstract: Sieć internet coraz częściej służy nie tylko komunikacji między jej użytkownikami. Pojawienie się serwisów Web 2.0 stanowiących swoiste platformy do publikacji najrozmaitszych treści (m.in. zdjęć, filmów, nagrań muzycznych, linków do ciekawych stron) pozwoliło...

English Abstract: The first aim of this paper is to describe the main developments in the Ukrainian economy since its independence in 1991, focusing on the evolution of output, and the path of economic reforms — that is, to simply show what happened. The bottom line on that is well known:...

What determines how trade in a commodity is divided between privately negotiated transactions via "middle men" (dealer/brokers) in a telephone or "dealer market" versus transactions via "market makers" (specialists) at publicly observable bid/ask prices? To address this question, we extend...