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LINKAGES BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FDI IN CEE COUNTRIES

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Vojtovič S., Klimaviciene A., Pilinkiene V.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2019
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vol. 67
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issue 3
264 – 279
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This paper examines linkages among foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in 11 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for the period of 1997 – 2014. Findings from panel data analysis suggest that the relative size of economic growth indicators affect FDI of CEE countries. This result holds for both contemporaneous and lagged relationships. FDI has an impact on economic growth, and this effect is strengthened by financial market development. The efforts of CEE countries increase the economic growth and beneficial spill over effects from FDI to local economies should be concentrated on the support of the development of local financial markets.
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EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TAX STRUCTURES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CEE COUNTRIES

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Grdiniċ M., Drezgiċ S., Blažiċ H.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2017
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vol. 65
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issue 5
426 – 447
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This paper investigates the relationship between tax structures and economic growth in selected CEE countries in the period from 1990 to 2010. The research basis on the data for 20 selected countries (EU-13 and selected former Soviet Union countries and Albania). We obtain empirical results by using the Pooled Mean Group estimator (PMG). The analysis focuses on the impact of structure of taxes on economic growth. All regressions contain the overall tax burden represented as a share of total tax revenues in GDP. The results show that all tax forms have a negative impact on economic growth. Personal income taxes proved to have the highest negative impact on economic growth, followed by corporate income taxes and property taxes, which had the least negative impact. Consumption taxes showed to be statistically insignificant. Furthermore, the results indicate a significantly different impact observed countries’ tax structures had on economic growth to that of previous research on the dataset of OECD developed industrial countries.
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THE INFLUENCE OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENTS ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE UKRAINE DURING THE PERIOD OF 1991-2008 (Wplyw bezposrednich inwestycji zagranicznych na wzrost gospodarczy na ukrainie w okresie lat 1991 - 2008)

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Vashchenko M.
Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne
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2010
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issue 2 (46)
138-148
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The article deals with the questions connected with direct foreign investments in the Ukraine during the period 1991 - 2008. The main objective of the paper is to determine the connection between the increase in the Ukrainian economy, its strength and direction (measured according to the level of GDP) and the amount of the direct foreign investments (measured according to the net value of direct for- eign investments in the Ukrainian economy). An analysis of the flow of direct foreign investments within the republics of the former Soviet Union and some countries of Central and Eastern Europe has been carried out.
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (Zasilki dla osób bezrobotnych w Europie Srodkowo-Wschodniej. Analiza konfiguracyjna)

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Polakowski M., Szelewa D.
Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje
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2008
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vol. 11
109-133
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This article investigates trends in an unemployment compensation in eight countries, which joined the EU in 2004 in the period 1989-2004. By focusing on eligibility criteria, generosity and duration of benefits on the one hand and obligations of unemployed on the other, the paper identifies different policy mixes. Based on the ideal-type fuzzy set approach, the article finds a great variety of unemployment compensation models. There is no consolidation of this policy across the region, therefore it is hard to cluster the countries. The most stable cases were the ones which already provided the compensation before the transition started. Changes in the ideal types of the unemployment compensation were rather incremental than revolutionary. The direction of these changes can be observed by identifying new dominating combinations of policies conversing the existing institutional solutions.
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Why to employ foreign academics in Poland? Perspective of heads of university research teams

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Łuczaj K., Mucha J.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2018
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vol. 44
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issue 3 (169)
185–204
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Academic international mobility is a long-lasting phenomenon and important aim of public policies in numerous countries. Scholarly debate usually concentrates on Western countries and some Eastern Asian scientific hubs like Singapore. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is understudied. In Poland, the largest CEE country, unlike in many Western countries, public policies concerning internationalization of the academic field are still under construction. Nevertheless, there is a strong pressure for internationalization. The Polish case to be discussed in this article can serve as an example of academic migration to less economically privileged regions that are usually countries of emigration of scholars rather than immigration. In this paper, by means of qualitative in-depth interviews, we concentrate on the need to invite academics from abroad and the perceptions of the actual presence of foreign scholars, employed full-time, as seen by their Polish supervisors. Geographical focus of this paper (CEE) and adopted perspective (interviews with heads of departments supported by interviews with academics) bridge the gap in the literature on academic mobility.
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Regional Development In Central And Eastern Europe

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Smetkowski M.
Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
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2010
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issue numer specjalny / special issue
77-105
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The aim of this article is to outline growth tendencies and growth factors in the subregions (NUTS 3) of Central and Eastern Europe in the period 1998–2006. A wide range of complementary research methods has been used in order to triangulate results, starting with classical beta and sigma convergence analysis, to kernel density estimation, transition matrices, spatial autocorrelation and multi-dimensional comparisons. Some rarely discussed aspects of the influence of capital regions on growth processes have been taken into account. An additional analysis of the data in relation to country averages produced results independent of the country context. As a result, we have been able to answer the following questions: do the analysed countries experience regional convergence or rather divergence/polarisation processes? What factors determine the dynamics of regional growth? What are the main dimensions of spatial disparities in Central and Eastern Europe?
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EMERGENCE OF MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE. THE CASE OF THE BIODIVERSITY IN THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION

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Kluvánková-Oravská T., Chobotová V.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2010
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vol. 58
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issue 4
407-422
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This paper addresses the problems of institutional changes in governance and the framing of biodiversity conservation policy at the level of the enlarged European Union. The theoretical basis of the paper is institutional rebuilding in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the emerging multilevel environmental governance of the EU. The data were collected from desk study research and interviews from five Central and Eastern European countries. The results show that the emergence of multilevel governance with multiple actors' participation is prone to create tensions, but evidence from the countries studied indicates that this is not necessarily a disadvantage.
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Eastward Enlargement of the European Union – a Success Story or an Unfi nished Project? The Polish Point of View

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Milczarek D.
Yearbook of Polish European Studies
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2014
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vol. 17
s.59-90
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This article presents a concise analysis, performed from Poland’s point of view, of the genesis, effects and future prospects of the enlargement of the European Union to the east. Initially, the enlargement concerned a group of 11 post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, which became members of the EU between 2004 and 2013, and has brought about positive results for both the new members and for the EU as a whole. In the broadly defi ned east of Europe, however, there is still a group of countries aspiring to EU membership and taking various measures towards this end. The European Union supports these efforts, but has no full and clearly defi ned policy in this regard. There is much to indicate that the possibilities of further EU enlargement to the east are presently exhausted. The candidate countries are greatly hindered in their striving for EU membership by their complicated internal and international situations, while most EU Member States are distinctly unwilling to accept new members at this time. This will not change even despite the positions of such countries as Poland, which considers the enlargement of the EU to the east vital to its interests, but which so far does not have suffi cient stature for its voice to take precedence.
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IMAGES OF REMOTE COUNTRIES IN THE LITERATURES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: ON THE THEORETICAL STARTING POINTS OF INTERCULTURAL COMPARATIVE STUDIES

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Pokrivčák A., Zelenka M.
World Literature Studies
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2019
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vol. 11
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issue 2
3 – 15
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In Central and Eastern Europe, the research into inter-literary relations traditionally drew on national concerns emerging naturally from the proximity of a great number of neighbouring nation states with their distinct cultures, or national minorities living within a majority culture. Yet the contacts or relationships with structurally and typologically different cultures have remained outside of critical attention. Studying them requires not only some knowledge of the extra literary context in which those cultures are situated, but a methodologically different approach as well, such as is used in postcolonial or decolonial theory, Orientalism, imagology, etc. The paper draws attention to the problems connected with comparisons using these approaches, especially imagology, as their main methodological tool. At the same time, it aims at finding out how such approaches contribute to the understanding of cultural, ethnic, biological or material “otherness” (especially through stereotyped imago typical structures), and whether it is possible to transfer, for example, the imagological concepts historically created in a certain context to a cultural area of a different civilization, and use them to analyse the nature of the literary.
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URBAN ACTIVISM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

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Bitušíková A.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2015
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vol. 63
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issue 4
326 - 338
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The study brings an overview of selected transdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of urban movements and activism placed within the framework of civil society and social movements, focused on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, and seen from a social anthropological perspective. It attempts to challenge older academic writings that described civil society in Central and Eastern Europe as underdeveloped and weak, and presents research that points out a specific nature of activism in the countries of the region. It builds primarily on the concepts of civil society, social movements, urban movements and urban activism as presented by scholars both from “Western” and “Central and Eastern” European countries and demonstrates that after more than two decades since the fall of communism it is still important to take different historic, political, economic, social and cultural contexts into account when comparing urban movements and activism within Europe.
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STRUCTURE AND CONVERGENCE OF AGRO-FOOD TRADE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION DURING PRE-ACCESSION

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Bojnec Š., Fertӧ I.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2010
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vol. 58
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issue 7
677-689
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The authors analyse agro-food trade structures of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) with the European Union (EU-15) market to identify the specialisation patterns during the pre-accession using different trade indices. The analyses assess whether these patterns in the CEECs agro-food trade structures indicate convergence of the agro-food trade specialisation. They find that CEECs agro-food export has converged towards greater structural similarity with the EU-15 market, but less in high and very high quality differentiated agro-food products. This implies some of the CEECs pre-accession integration difficulties with higher valued agro-food products on the EU-15 market during adjustments and structural changes of CEECs' agro-food export patterns towards more competitive EU-15 market.
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Family farm versus industrial farm?

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Ferto I., Fogarasi J.
Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
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2007
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vol. 17
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issue 3-4
38-52
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The literature on the agricultural transformation in Central and Eastern European countries usually neglect the investigation of organizational forms in agriculture. This paper is the first to analyze the choice of organization forms in transition agriculture employing transaction cost theory. The analysis is based on Hungarian FAUN data in 2003. In general, our results do not support the theoretical predictions on the choice of farm organization, but confirm the differences in capital level and farm area observed in different farm organizations. The divergence between tbeory and empirics shed light on the importance of further research in explaining farm organizations.
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NEW SOCIAL RISKS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: THE NEED FOR A NEW EMPOWERING POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE

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Cerami A.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 6
1089-1100
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This article examines the economic and social transformation occurring in post-communist societies, with a particular focus on the emergence of new social risks (NSRs) and the subsequent welfare state responses. It argues that Central and Eastern European countries are characterised by broader NSR types (a mix of old and new social risks) and groups than those present in the West. In order to deal more effectively with the requirements of the post-industrial, knowledge-based, and service economy, the reasons for a new political economy of skill formation and for a new empowering politics of the welfare state capable of strengthening the potential of individuals to adapt to more flexible labour markets are discussed. The new empowering politics of the welfare state proposed here would consist of four main pillars: 1) a guaranteed minimum income; 2) a basic income for children; 3) state investments for education and human capital formation; and 4) a guaranteed basic pension. The aim is to empower the individual through decommodification, childhood investment, human capital formation, and a rebalancing of life risks. The article concludes by reflecting on the political feasibility of this proposal.
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MONETARY CONDITIONS INDEX: NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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Nucu A. E., Anton S. G.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2018
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vol. 66
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issue 2
139 – 158
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The aim of the paper is to build a Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) for four Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by combining changes in the short-term interest rate and in the real effective exchange rate over the period August 2005 – December 2015. Contrary to previous papers, we employ a Vector Error Correction Model to assess the relative importance of real interest rate and real exchange rate for the monetary conditions in several CEE countries. The results of the analysis provide new empirical evidence on the MCI’s ability to capture the monetary policy developments. Furthermore, we employ Granger causality to infer the extent of external influences on the overall monetary conditions of analysed countries. The results highlight that monetary decisions in the Eurozone have a prominent influence on monetary conditions in CEE countries.
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Towards a Stakeholder Model of Government Communication: A Case Study of the Czech Republic

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SOUKENÍK Š.
Communication Today
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2018
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vol. 9
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issue 1
20-37
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The study focuses on organisation and perception of government communication by government agents and stakeholder representatives in the Czech Republic. At the same time, it presents an original methodological approach to researching government communication. The research evidence suggests that government communication process in the Czech Republic conceals tensions on internal, interdepartmental and external levels of governance. Performing in-depth semi structured interviews with former Czech government officials and top executives from the corporate and non-commercial sector, it was observed that phenomena such as democratic disenchantment and low confidence in executive bodies can be associated with the state-of-things and modus operandi of the government communication process. Finally, the aim of the study is to encourage government communication research in emerging or recently institutionalised democracies including post-communist countries in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, since it is necessary to understand the complexity of political and communication systems long associated with asymmetric power relations and democratic deficit.
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