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This paper is part of the international research project Shift to electric car production: national strategies in Central and Eastern Europe and its main objective is to map government strategies, policies and financial instruments in Slovakia that support the transition of the Slovak automotive industry to the production of battery electric vehicl...
Prvé vydanie publikácie, ktorá má charakter učebnice, pozostáva z ôsmich kapitol. Prvá kapitola je venovaná základnej terminológii z oblasti medzinárodných hospodárskych vzťahov, subjektom svetového hospodárstva, kategorizácii národných ekonomík podľa vybraných kritérií a niektorým ukazovateľom používaným pri analýze medzinárodných ekonomických vzť...
The goal of this paper is to examine the greenfield investments of leading Chinese battery manufacturers in Europe. The first part of the paper describes the position of Chinese battery manufacturers in the global battery industry. The second part of the paper reviews the most important greenfield investments of Chinese battery manufacturers in Eur...
Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate whether the impact of innovativeness and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on their financial risks differ depending on the countries where SMEs are located.
Research Design & Methods: The researchers created an online questionnaire and gained data from 1221 Czech...
The aim of the study was to examine the differences in the perception of the use of selected principles by CSR managers and owners of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in the V4 countries. The results of our research show that CSR strategies are most used by entrepreneurs and managers of MSMEs in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. They a...
The paper uses a variant of the Revealed Comparative Advantage index to examine comparative advantages of the European Union (EU) countries in 254 research areas and their development from 1998 to 2018, focusing mostly on the split into the old and new EU members and their convergence. The results confirm that there has been convergence inside the...
Business activity is logically influenced by a certain environment in which it takes place. We call this the business environment. It consists of conditions in a specific country, respectively. specific location. Today, we can also talk about the global business environment. The business environment consists of all entities in the vicinity of the c...
This paper aims to examine the trends of Chinese high-tech acquisitions in the EU countries, describe the policies that these acquisitions prompted on the level of member states and the EU, and analyze the effects of these policy responses. The results of the research review clearly show an increasing number of takeovers of European companies in th...
The paper applies a variant of the gravity model to test whether there is a positive link between the size of trade flows and the extent to which they follow the pattern of comparative advantage. Using UNCTAD's 2016 trade data for every country in the world, and 255 merchandise items, we show that countries trading more with each other tend to foll...
The paper develops a district-level gravity-type model of foreign direct investment (FDI) stock in Slovakia using Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimation based on the most recent investment data compiled by the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS). Population and wages as well as distance from Bratislava, access to freeway and presence of universit...
he paper uses Heckman model to examine the statistical importance of over 140 independent variables on the Olympic performance of all countries participating in the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to Rio 2016. We find that countries which export more products have a higher likelihood of winning an Olympic medal than their counterparts exporti...
The paper determines evolution of various macroeconomic indicators of the V4 with special focus on the field of business environment. The results highlight economic prognoses of the Visegrad region for the upcoming years, which are in harmony with general forecasts of international organizations (EU, OECD, UNCTAD, IMF or Eurostat). Objectives of th...
The paper outlines the theoretical and methodological basis for determination of national identity and analyzes its main economic, social and cultural criteria. The paper also provides an inquiry into the prerequisites of autopoiesis of social groups, effective management of public resources and shaping social institutions for achieving common goal...
For a long time China was viewed as a typical host country in international capital flows. Long-term rapid economic growth and trade surpluses produced quick accumulation of capital in China which has led to increasing capital flows abroad from public and private companies. When amid the global economic crisis of 2008-2009 domestic investment decli...
The goal of this article is to analyze the development of public support for the TTIP agreement in Europe and to identify the main factors causing the growing skepticism with the treaty. The first part of the article describes the state of TTIP negotiations since their beginning in 2013 until today, while the second part focuses on the analysis of...
In 2007, Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (HHR) demonstrated that export specialization patterns have important implications for economic growth. The authors developed an indicator of income level linked to the country’s exports they called EXPY and showed that higher values of the indicator lead to higher subsequent economic growth. The present paper te...
The goal of the paper is to analyze the impact of foreign direct investment inflows into the automotive industry of the Visegrad Group on labour productivity. Since the 1990s Central Europe has obtained a massive amount of FDI with a large share of automotive industry in it. Automotive FDI inflow is closely associated with the transfer of technolog...
Liberalizácia medzinárodného obchodu patrí medzi najdôležitejšie úlohy v súčasnom svetovom hospodárstve. Článok dáva krátky pohľad na teoretické a praktické aspekty liberalizácie medzinárodného obchodu so zreteľom na Všeobecnú dohodu o obchode so službami – GATS. Táto zmluva je jedným z výsledkov uruguajského kola rokovaní GATT, jej prijatie je vša...
Cieľom tohto článku je popísať súčasné postavenie Nórska vo svetovom hospodárstve. Nórsko patrí medzi štáty exportujúce strategické energetické suroviny – najmä ropu a zemný plyn. Ekonomika štátu je preto vo veľkej miere založená na ťažobnom sektore, ktorý produkuje veľkú časť exportných príjmov. Aj nórske vlády si však uvedomujú postupný pokles zá...
Cieľom tohto článku je porovnať investičnú atraktívnosť štátov v regióne strednej a východnej Európy z hľadiska stavu dopravnej a informačnej infraštruktúry. Je možné konštatovať všeobecné zaostávanie za priemyselne vyspelými štátmi, rozdiely sú však zjavné aj v rámci regiónu. Najvyspelejšou infraštruktúrou nepochybne disponujú nové členské štáty E...
The positive effect of the foreign direct investments (FDI) on the economic growth is a generally accepted fact in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of this article is to analyze this axiom on the set of eight new EU member states. The analysis is based on correlation analysis and regression analysis of the FDI inflow the GDP growth in the time p...
Rozhodovanie zahraničných investorov o výbere cieľového štátu je komplexným rozhodovaním, pričom stav politického prostredia je veľmi dôležitým faktorom pri výbere. Tento faktor možno rozdeliť na nasledujúce súčasti – politická stabilita, stav právneho prostredia, byrokratické procedúry, korupcia a zákony týkajúce sa priamych zahraničných investíci...
Fenomén priamych zahraničných investícií (ďalej len PZI) patrí medzi najdôležitejšie fenomény v súčasnom svetovom hospodárstve. Nadnárodné korporácie prostredníctvom nich vytvárajú svoje podnikové siete, do ktorých zapájajú všetky kontinenty. Vhodným usmernením PZI je možné získať chýbajúci kapitál, technológie alebo know-how. Obzvlášť dôležité sú...
Cieľom tohto článku je zmapovať najnovšie trendy v príleve PZI na Slovensko. Prvá časť článku sa venuje hodnoteniu celkového prílevu PZI na Slovensko v rokoch 2008 a 2009, pričom špeciálna pozornosť sa venuje vplyvu globálnej hospodárskej krízy. Druhá časť článku analyzuje trendy v štruktúre prílevu PZI, keď sa postupne venuje analýze pôvodu, odvet...
