Peter Jančovič

University of Economics in Bratislava · Department of International Economic Relations and Economic Diplomacy

The implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and related targets, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, can be monitored at various levels using global, regional or national SDG indicators. The present paper deals with progress of EU Member States towards sustainable development using data from the EU SDG indicator set that was dev...

Slovakia started to provide bilateral official development assistance (ODA) in 2003 and became a fully-fledged member of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD in 2013. This paper empirically examines the main determinants influencing the territorial selection and allocation of the Slovak Republic’s ODA during the period 2003 – 2019. To r...

New Keynesian form of the Phillips Curve assumes a shortterm trade-off between inflation and real economic activity, either in unit labour cost or output gap specification. Extending the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) with a backward-looking price setting, our aim is to examine the impact of the inflation expectations, lagged inflation, unit l...

The aim of this paper is to categorize Latin American and Caribbean countries into broader groups according to the similarities and dissimilarities between them in terms of the level (attractiveness) and determinants of FDI inflows, with regard to the two different periods. In terms of methodology, we employ agglomerative hierarchical clustering te...

The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) became a staple in the New Keynesian economics, assuming an existence of a short-term trade-off between inflation and real economic activity, either in a form of labor unit costs or output gap. Extending the cost-based NKPC with hybrid, backward-looking price setting to the Czech Republic, we aim to examine t...

In this paper, we examine the applicability of the tipping point framework in the field of asylum seekers. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we aim to provide a general assessment of the literature regarding tipping points in environmental and social sciences, with potential overlaps to asylum seekers. Secondly, since the literature regard...

Inter-regionalism has become an important EU foreign policy tool for establishing and consolidating its external relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim of this paper is to examine the development of EU’s trade relations with Latin America and the Caribbean before and after the entry into application of interregional trade agreement...

In this article, we employ cluster analysis to differentiate between various groups of least developed countries (LDCs) according to the commodity structure of their exports to one of the world's largest economies-the EU. The article is organized as follows. Firstly, we review the literature on international trade between the EU and LDCs, and the r...