This study sought to examine the causal links between economic freedom and economic growth of new EU members in transition in the period 2000-2009. The empirical results suggest significant causality running from monetary and fiscal freedom, trade openness, regulation of credit, labour, and...

The main aim of this contribution is an analysis of the causal relationship between the total energy consumption in the Polish economy and GDP. In order to assure the correetness of computations a third variable - employment - was included in the dataset. Calculations performed on the basis of...

Information about the distribution of withdrawals is very essential for ATM networks. It sup- ports optimization of the replenishment process for ATMs. The conducted research showed that the daily distribution of withdrawals was similar among the examined ATMs owned by the Euronet company....

The structure of links between realized volatility and trading volume can be reflected by regime switching copulas. The estimation by means of copula based regime switching models delivered results concerning the interdependencies between realized return volatility and trading volume of selected...

The main goal of this contribution was to provide evidence on the dynamic interdependencies between economic growth and budget and trade deficits in ten new EU members in transition in the last decade. It is worth to note, that besides establishing directions of causal relationships this paper...

Value at Risk plays a crucial role in the risk management. However, this risk measure has some drawbacks. The alternative risk measure is Expected Shortfall, which is rarely used, but exhibits desirable properties. In the paper, the estimation of both risk measures has been conducted, for pairs...

The relationship between information flows and changes in asset prices is one of the main issues of financial economics. A fundamental assumption of the market efficiency hypothesis is that investors react to new information as it arrives. This reaction results in price changes that reflect...

This paper is devoted to an investigation of the innovation process in the Polish economy over the last few years. In doing so, the concept of backward and forward R&D multipliers is employed which, despite some current doubt and ambiguity, still seems to be a powerful tool for examining where...

The aim of this paper is investigation of DJIA, DAX, ATX and WIG20 interdependence based on weekly returns. In order to capture asymmetry of dependence structure Archimedean copulas were applied and symmetric structures are modelled with elliptical copulas. The strength of dependence between...