Astra Auzina Emsina

Riga Technical University | RTU · Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management (FEEM)

The European Green Deal targets to limit emissions by applying sustainable and greener technologies in transport, including last-mile delivery services. The aim is to estimate the potential impact of application of greener last-mile delivery technologies in the companies on sectoral and regional development in Latvia, using the input-output approac...

In order to promptly model the cross-sectoral impact of the market crisis (macro-level impact in the narrow sense) that primarily has a direct impact on agriculture and food production, but due to the cross-sectoral linkages, the full impact also includes the impact on other sectors and the overall impact on the economy (macro level in the broadest...

The rapid changes in the transport and logistics sector in connection with various major global events have shown the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s economy. The study uses general scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction). The paper is based on principles of generalization, concretization and abstractio...

Green logistics or greener technologies in logistics compared to the current are widely discussed and promoted in the European Union (EU) level and national level energy, environmental, transport, economic recovery, economic transformation policies and initiatives. However, a limited amount of quantitative studies and report covers both impacts on...

Developed transport and storage sector has up-most importance for production capacities in regions, especially in rural areas, ensuring supplies and deliveries, including well-developed and maintained infrastructure, transport vehicles, IT systems and human capital. Till 2040 demand for highly-educated and qualified logistics specialists will incre...

Governments heavily focus on advancing capital-intense high-tech production and exports for economic growth. The findings on seven European Union (EU) countries associated as the Baltic Sea region countries argue that despite more than 15 years in the EU, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland maintain dissimilar pattern compared to Sweden, Finland, but Estonia...

General global trend in advanced economies indicates decreasing working hours and increasing labour productivity. The aim of the research is to examine the existing relationships between hours worked, labour productivity and international trade in the long-term. In the study, OECD and more in detail, some EU countries (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, P...

Sustainable and balanced recovery is a key factor to ensure the economic performance. Two-speed recovery pattern is already observed. Three-speed recovery represents the most likely pattern of recovery in majority in the EU countries in the post-COVID era due to the common dramatic decline in transport and tourism, relative minor impact on large pa...

COVID-19 policy and measures have caused both negative and positive challenges for the transport sector. The aim of the research is to model an impact of shocks that transport and logistics encounter during the COVID-19 era on the economy and regional development. A comparative-static approach that involves an input-output model with additional reg...

Effective government transport policy can be based only on realistic data, sophisticated and detailed transport sector analysis, and productive modelling. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the main elements used to develop a relatively small macro-economic input-output model with the emphasis on transport for one European Union (EU) country. T...

Transport and logistics heavily depend on economic activity and consumption decisions made by the market nationally and globally. Advanced economies face new global trends caused by more eco-friendly consumption behaviour decisions, distance shopping etc. The aim of the research is to model the economic impact of consumption decisions on transport...

Transportation and storage industry plays an important role in Latvian economy. Not only it generates significant share of the value added (9.2% in 2017), but it also ensures exports of transport services (12.7% of the total exports of goods and services in 2017). The aim of the paper is to evaluate the possibilities to model the impact of the tran...

The paper deals with the analysis of exports and competitiveness in Latvia in comparison with Estonia and Lithuania. The objective of the study is to elaborate the possible sectoral development scenarios based on the competitiveness analysis results. The main focus is on exports of goods and revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of exported products...

The article is devoted to the issues of modelling and forecasting corporate income tax revenues in Latvia. Analysis of legal aspects and data shows that it is necessary to distinguish between advance payments (usually monthly payments) and final tax payments made in March, April or May. Following the usual practice, both identities and econometric...

Competitiveness is the key factor in order to reach the economic transformation, smart growth, governance and legal framework for the state and society for sustainable development that are stated as the major goals in the current planning period in Latvia. High-technology industries are the main drivers of economic activity in developed economies....

High-technology industries that apply the most advanced and cutting edge technologies are frequently analysed as an opposite to low-technology industries. Following a similar approach, services are subdivided by knowledge-intensity into two major dichotomic groups: knowledge-intensive services and less knowledge-intensive services. The aim of the r...

Labour productivity and economic growth are the major factors to sustain and improve the performance and competitiveness of countries. The paper is devoted to the analysis of recent trends of labour productivity and economic growth in the European Union (EU) countries in post-crisis period in comparison with the trends in pre-crisis and crisis peri...

Labour productivity and economic growth are key factors to maintain and improve the competiveness of nations in the global market. The paper is devoted to the analysis of recent trends of labour productivity and economic growth in post-crisis period in comparison with the trends in pre-crisis and crisis periods. The paper analyzes the impact of cha...

The paper examines export, productivity and impact on the economy. The aim of the research is to analyse and estimate the exiting relations between exports of goods and services and labour productivity using the principles of inputoutput analysis and econometric methods. Special attention is devoted to Latvia’s economy; however, in order to perform...

Income changes have significant impact on overall consumption and saving process and, in result, on structure of consumption expenditure. The paper is devoted to evaluation of impact of income changes on consumption in Latvia. Household disposable income had increased by 129 % in 2008 in comparison to 2005. During this period, household expenditure...

Dependence on export markets of the manufacturing sector is a topical and significant issue, as on average more than 60% of manufacturing production is exported. The aim of the paper is to estimate the current export dependency of the manufacturing sector and detect the most export-oriented sub-branches. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis m...

Economic environment has a considerable effect on business activity in any country, and the recent fast macroeconomic development pace in the new EU member states claims detailed analysis concerning the influence on business activity indicators. The paper is devoted to the estimation of relationships between overall macroeco-nomic development and b...