Joanna Stefaniak

University of Gdańsk | UG · Faculty of Economics

Research background: In recent decades, services in international trade have been growing steadily in importance, and there has been strong growth in China?s trade in services as a result of the ?opening up? policy. China has become the European Union?s second biggest trading partner in services with the European Union (EU), being China?s largest t...

Research background: The developed economies are perceived as the main players in trade in services, however, some fast-growing emerging markets, including China, have also become prominent actors. The growth that the Chinese economy experienced over recent years brought it to the position of the EU’s second-biggest trading partner with the EU bein...

Research background: In last decades, the importance of services in international trade was growing steadily. Until quite recently, the developed economies were perceived as the main players in trade in services. However, last years witnessed a change as a result of which some fast-growing emerging markets, including China, have also become promine...

The position of information and communication technology (ICT) services is growing in the European Union (EU) trade, however to different extend in different EU countries. The article aims to identify trade positions of the EU Member States in intra-EU trade and extra-EU trade in ICT services and to assess changes that have taken place in the years...

Trade in services is becoming increasingly important in the international economy. That is so due to the economic and social development, as well as technological development. The European Union is involved in the processes of liberalizing trade in services on a global scale, as well as undertakes a number of activities regarding the liberalization...

Unia Europejska jest strukturą zintegrowaną, w której przenikają się dwa poziomy instytucjonalne: poziom unijny i poziom krajowy. Obecny system instytucjonalny UE jest wynikiem wielu zmian wprowadzanych do struktury ustalonej w traktatach założycielskich w rezultacie kolejnych reform. Podyktowane były one zmieniającymi się uwarunkowaniami wynikając...

Business services play an increasingly important role in the European economy. At the same time, they are suffering from different barriers regarding their provision within the EU internal market. Therefore the European Commission has taken steps to improve functioning of the internal market for business services. The aim of the paper is to discuss...

The free provision of services in the European Internal Market is still being prevented from coming into fruition by serious obstacles. The crucial step to the elimination of barriers and liberalization of market access for service providers was to be the implementation of the Services Directive in 2009. However, the provision of services across th...

Streszczenie: Unijny rynek usług jest częścią rynku wewnętrznego UE, która w najwięk-szym stopniu doświadcza obecności licznych barier. Po latach zastoju, od początku nowe-go wieku podjęto działania w kierunku realizacji idei swobody świadczenia usług, jednak mimo przyjęcia dyrektywy usługowej w 2006 r. wciąż na rynku usług występuje wiele barier....

The importance of services and the international trade in services is growing systematically. There are some reasons for that, especially the rapid development of IT technologies. This increase in the international trade in services is a global phenomenon, however there are some other specific issues, other than economic or technological, which mig...

Since 1989, over two decades, Poland has undergone a transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. In the socialist period, the service sector was not perceived as significant sector for the economy, but the transition to a market-based economy brought about changes in the approach to it. The first decade of transformation ca...

The economic crisis it is a rapid economic downturn. National economies are increasingly intertwined through trade and capital what results in fast transmission of the crisis between countries. The crisis results mainly in the deteriorating financial situation of enterprises and in the increase of unemployment, the deterioration in consumer confide...