Review of theoretical literature suggests that a higher level of concentration of economic activity, and hence the degree of clustering of the regional economy, should have a positive impact on the export potential of regions. This hypothesis is verified in the case of Polish provinces. As a...

The forthcoming Eastern Enlargement of the EU will trigger static and dynamic effects. Due to the heterogeneous regional structure of the acceding states the effects are bound to be asymmetric. It applies especially to relatively large and regionally diversified economies as Poland. The...

In the paper we construct two novel indices of relative centrality – peripheriality in order to test whether location has an impact on medium and long-run growth rates of the European Union Member States. We utilize two popular econometric approaches – standard cross-sectional growth...

Economic and Monetary Union is an unprecedented event in the monetary history of Europe. The eurozone since its creation 13 years ago expanded to 17 Member States and functioned relatively smoothly up to the outset of the global financial crisis. Only the severity of the subsequent eurozone...

The goal of this article is to investigate structural adjustments in trade relations of the Visegrad countries resulting from their accession into the European Union and advanced stage of economic transition. Particular emphasis is placed on the similarity of adjustments in geographic trade...

The goal of this article is to investigate the role of product variety and changes in the product variety in the patter of exports of Poland a middle-sized open economy in the second phase of economic transition to a benchmark group of countries – EU15. The analysis covers the period 1999-2006...

We verify the impact of the so-called deep determinants on the level of economic real GDP per capita for an unbalanced panel of 207 economies within the period 1996-2004 using the Hausman-Taylor method of estimation. Institutional variables are detected to be endogenous. The results confirmed...

W oparciu o analize strumieni wymiany handlowej dobrami przemys³owymi w okresie 1995-2001 niniejsze opracowanie dazy do identyfikacji sektorów przemys³u przetwórczego grupy tzw. starych panstw cz³onkowskich charakteryzujacych sie potencjalnie najwyzszym stopniem wrazliwosci konkurencyjnej...

The forthcoming eastern enlargement of the European Union is generally perceived to constitute one of the most significant challenges to the process of European integration so far. The economic impact of the enlargement is likely to be considerable. The enlargement, as any other previous...

Na bazie niezbilansowanego panelu danych dla okresu 1996 – 2004 oraz 207 panstw i terytoriow dokonano oceny znaczenia glebokich determinant wzrostu w determinowaniu poziomu rozwoju gospodarczego. W odroznieniu od dotychczasowej analizy empirycznej przedmiotu wykorzystano panelowe modele...