High-speed rail is an important transportation infrastructure that can promote regional economic growth and adjust industrial layout. To explore the impact of high-speed rail construction on the industrial spatial layout of China’s Bay Area, the effects of high-speed rail construction on ind...

The goal of this paper was to carry out an empirical verification of the theoretical model of internal migration and evaluate the influence of selected determinants on internal migration in Poland. In order to achieve this goal, an analysis of internal migration in Poland and&...

On July 30, 2019 a draft Lobbying Act was approved by the government of the Czech Republic, which reflects growing tendencies to adopt at least minimum normative standards in this area. The aim of the article is to evaluate the lobbying regulatory system in the draft ...

To promote online shoppers’ long-term interest, consumers need to have the knowledge and ability to avoid problems with financial issues. Financial capability helps to put consumers on the path to a sustainable financial future. However, previous studies only focused on financial capability&...

International direct and portfolio investments have gone up considerably as of mid-1980s. The foreign direct investments with characteristic of long term horizon may affect the economic variables through know-how and technology transfer, physical capital expansion, and new job creation. However, ...

The focus placed on the efficiency of the healthcare system can vary across the countries. This paper aims to analyse and compare the technical efficiency of medical care for CVD patients across selected OECD countries using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method according to&#...

The collar option is one kind of exotic options which is useful when institutional investors wish to lock in the profit they already have on the underlying asset. Under the constant volatility assumption, the pricing problem of collar options can be solved in the classical...

In the growing of economic integration and international relations, the effect of trade openness on economic growth has become an important issue across countries. Following the economic integration, the world trading system has become progressive and competitive in recent years. Many countr...

The biggest challenges for today’s businesses and facilities in ministries (health, education, defence, police, etc.) are to constantly increase their effectiveness. The quality and efficiency of each business are above all quality employees. They should be as satisfied and motivated as poss...

The main aim of the article is to identify specific management practices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which determine processes of their growth and development, and then to determine the character and force of dependence between the identified practices and the growth&#...

Limited efforts have been made to date to examine the determinants of visitors’ behavioural intentions in the context of cultural festivals in Central Europe. The present study aims to fi ll this void in literature by proposing a conceptual model incorporating the festival setting&...

This paper aims to investigate the application of different types of communication forms and tools (personal, audio/video, online, offline) in the context of client capital management and development of the client lifetime value in the sector of small and medium enterprises. Research&#x...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the significance of the long memory and asymmetry effects for forecasting conditional volatility and market risk on the commodity market based on the example of gold and silver. The analysis involved testing a wide range of linear a...