The paper is aimed at stating if economic crisis observed during the period 2007-2009 will give rise to greater or reduced economic freedom. Seeking the answer to this question, Economic Freedom Index developed by Fraser Institute during the period 2007-2010 was subject to analysis. The research...

Entrepreneurship is one of the key factors of socio-economic development and one of the key factors for countering the results of economic crisis. During the economic crisis, the way for enabling entrepreneurship, which has a relatively low costs in comparison to effects that may be achieved,...

The aim of this paper is to present and evaluate public regulations proposed by the American, German and Polish government during the economic crisis. This paper also discuss efficiency of proposed regulations.

The paper examines the impact of 2008 economic crisis on the dynamic productivity growth and its components using a firm-level dataset of Spanish meat processing, dairy processing and oils and fats firms. The impulse response analysis by local projections shows that the impact of crisis on...

Polish agri-food exports to Russia during the global economic crisis are analysed. The recession in Europe in 2009 and the debt crisis in the Eurozone were the key factors that had a negative influence on the international trade. The GDP decline in the European Union amounted to 4.2% and in...

The purpose of this study was to present changes in the food industry in the countries of the European Union in the years of economic crisis, 2007-2011. On the basis of the data from the European Commission web pages and from the bulletin “Data & trends of the European Food and Drink...

This paper sets out to examine the determinants of regional development in Greece before and during the economic crisis. By proposing an econo-metric model with spatial effects for the years 2005-2008 and 2009-2011, which represent the sub-periods of growth and decline of the Greek economy...

The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of urban hierarchies and the nature of urban growth processes in Greece from 1951 to 2011 using data provided by the Greek Statistical Authority. The paper delivers three series of results: firstly, when using an administrative definition of the...

This paper provides a detailed account of the drivers behind the economic crisis in Greece, which has destroyed one quarter of the GDP of the economy and has led more than a quarter of labour force to unemployment in a period of five years. The paper claims that a mix of background factors at...

The ongoing deep recession has largely affected the great majority of economic activities in Greece in the primary, secondary and service sector. Not surprisingly, therefore, tourism is not an exception to this pattern although any generalization should be treated with caution due to the complex...