This paper takes a look at the national and international reforms taken in OECD countries after the Transatlantic Banking Crisis. Key elements of the international economic order are analyzed and proposals for reforms both at the national and international level are presented. Economics has come...

The paper characterizes main trends in ICT implementation and diffusion in the CEE countries in terms of market volume, its dynamics, economic development and ICT trade integration within the EU market. This gives support to the hypothesis of gradual closing up of technology gap in ICT sector...

The impact of information and communications technology (ICT) on economic performance has been an interesting issue in economics. There are at least three key points that can be learnt from the previous literatures regarding ICT and country’s economic performance. First, more developed...

Rapid growth in energy consumption influences on the one hand energy prices and endangers energy supply security; on the other hand it distresses ecological balances. In this respect, the efficient use of energy resources plays a key role for challenging these problems in the long run. Thus,...

The rapid expansion of new digital services on the Internet and the growing use of mobile Internet services have put rising peak loads on the Internet networks, therefore congestion problems at certain times of the day have started to slow down digital traffic in OECD countries and many other...

In this paper the influence of ICT investments on the international activities of Russia is analyzed. Firstly, ICT investments are considered as a factor of the international competitiveness of the Russian economy (in comparison with some other countries). Dynamics of both export volumes and...

In the knowledge society, it is a fundamental interest to capture the technology-and market-relevant knowledge dynamics. This is why the analysis of patent statistics plays an important role. Thereby others regions, companies, sectors and countries as query elements in national and international...

This paper investigates an intergenerational conflict arising from renewable energy support (RES). Using a simple polito-economic overlapping generations (OLG) model, it can be shown that old individuals unambiguously lose from renewable energy support and therefore vote for its minimum level....

Based on the example of the automotive sector the paper investigates some quantity and quality aspects of FDI-driven upgrading and analyzes in a comparative perspective – with the help of industry level data – selected aspects of competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe. The first group...

This paper gives an introduction to regional clustering tendencies of Hungarian automotive and ICT sectors. Regional concentration patterns of these two sectors are shown using various measures (number of firms, number of employees, value added, and export). Regional location quotient is also...