English Abstract: The development of the Polish corporate bonds market resulted from changes on the supply side. When the Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Polish entrepreneurs realized that financing their companies' operations only with the use of credit, even if contracted from different...

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:...

English Abstract: In the publication, Barabara Nowakowska and Piotr Noceń discuss 'Poland's Private Equity Market: Current Conditions and Development Prospects', and Michał Surowski and Michał Popiołek describe 'Private Equity From a Bank's Perspective'.Polish Abstract: W niniejszym Zeszycie...

Polish Abstract: Podmioty zbiorowego inwestowania (towarzystwa funduszy inwestycyjnych, powszechne towarzystwa ubezpieczeniowe, powszechne towarzystwa emerytalne, domy maklerskie, firmy typu asset management) to przedsiębiorstwa, w których kapitał ludzki stanowi zasadniczy element sukcesu...

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...