Last global financial crisis has led to massive fiscal stimulation actions in most of developed countries which resulted in significant increase of their public debt. This can be also said about Eurozone or wider EU economies. This factors in near future will force many EU countries to adopt...

The article is devoted to measuring the effectiveness of institutional systems of European Union countries in terms of their relevance to the requirements of the global knowledge-based economy. The theoretical analysis is based on the framework of new institutional economics with special...

The purpose of the article was to evaluate the relationship between the level of institutional effectiveness in the context of global knowledge economy (KBE) and quality of life for the EU countries in the years 2004 and 2010. To measure the intitutional effectiveness authors proposed a...

The article concentrates on the problem of the efficiency of the institutional system of the European Union countries in relation to the potential of the knowledge-based economy (KBE) and its impact on quality of life. In order to define the efficiency of the institutional system, the authors...

Increasing globalization contributes to the growth of the interdependencies between capital markets. This phenomenon is becoming a significant exogenous factors influencing the effectiveness of national economic policies and it impacts on the risk management processes at the microeconomic level....

The article is devoted to multivariate analysis of the degree of social cohesion achieved by the individual countries of the European Union. The definition of social cohesion adopted in the analysis is based on a formula defined in the Europe 2020 plan. In the research the zero unitarization...

The global financial crisis of the years 2008-2010 led to a situation, where long-term mistakes and negligence in the area of fiscal policy, on the one hand may threaten the financial stability of chosen economies of the European Union, as it is exemplified by the threat of bankruptcy of Greece,...

The article is devoted to measuring the effectiveness of institutional systems of developed countries in terms of their relevance to the requirements of the global knowledge-based economy. The aim of the article is to evaluate the results obtained by Visegrád Group in relations to OECD...

The relations between metropolitan areas of southern Poland and domestic population migration flows in the period of 2008-2010 were discussed in this paper. Southern Polish regions demonstrate low intensity of intraregional population movements while interregional flows are quite significant,...

Internal population migration flows constitute an inherent element of the market economy. Under relatively stable political conditions, the nature of internal migration is reflected in economic reasons as a result of the regional socio-economic situation. The subject of this paper was to examine...