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Legislative changes in Poland in 2011 introduced an obligation of the third party liability insurance of subjects performing healing activity. At the time of the introduction of the Act it was difficult to assess the cos...

Multidimensional connections between innovative activity of enterprises and business cycle phases result in the ambiguous nature of this relationship. The main aim of the article is to analyze the impact of business cycl...

Unemployment among young people is one of the most important challenges of the European labor market. It is also a strategic issue of the Polish labor market. The strategic importance of this problem causes an increased ...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of corruption on entrepreneurship. The relationship between corruption and entrepreneurship is undoubtedly observed, but its characterization in literature (mainly for...

In Polish hospitals there are clear standards for cost accounting which can be used to report information on costs and to correctly price health care services. Medical activities of hospitals are very diverse because of ...

Topicality of comparative study in Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is determined by the need to deepen analysis of economic activity challenges and opportunities related to cross-border investments. Research in FDI tren...

Financial performance of companies and their groups is of major interest to all stakeholders. As a result, they assess categories such as profitability, financial liquidity, financial independence, and risk. Separate ana...

In recent years a couple of methods aimed at time series symbolic representation have been introduced or developed. This activity is mainly justified by practical considerations such memory savings or fast data base sear...

The level of activity of old people is measured by the special index called Active Aging Index. The main purpose of the article is to present this index as a tool to evaluate policy toward old people. Author focused on t...

The article discusses the ‘working poor’ phenomenon among young people. This phenomenon is associated with the labor market on the one hand and poverty on the other. It is an interesting object of study, because curr...

People with disabilities belong to a social group at risk of poverty. In their daily lives, they face prejudice and obstacles in the labor market. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and assess the labor market situa...

For several years, the expansion of the shadow banking sector in the world can be observed. Shadow banking institutions offer products which partly replace banking transactions and partly complete a banks’ offer. In pr...

Credit risk management is a key element in bank management. For credit risk management, statistical models are used, the so‑called scoring and rating models. For enterprise risk assessment, rating models are used. Rati...

Diseases of affluence (diseases of the twenty‑first century, Western diseases) by definition should have higher prevalence and/or mortality rates in richer and more developed countries than in poorer, underdeveloped st...

Relations between the functioning and benefits of ecosystems to society was considered since the 70s. Conducted research and analysis in this area, as well as the development and refinement of methods for estimating the ...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the efficiency of teaching activities and qualification of ranking of efficiency of higher vocational education schools in the year 2012. The analysis comprises 25 higher vocational...

We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity and underpricing focusing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Although the topic has been under investigation in the past, we believe that the recent decade of low interest rat...

We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity and underpricing focusing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and confirm that many IPO phenomena in Poland are not stationary. Focusing on the behavioural reasons for underpr...

The basic goal of the article is analyse the current regulations about credit rating agency and their activity in European Union and United States and answer the question which one the issuer or investor paid credit rati...

The level of awareness and acceptance of the need to enhance volume and intensity of investment in education and in-house training is increasing. This phenomenon stems from the following facts: the aging of the European ...

The article presents the functional factors of geriatric hospitals and their influence on the fulfillment of the patients’ social needs. It has been assumed that there exist a number of spatial determinants that may ...

The aim of this study was to construct models of trading companies’ lifespan, in individual districts of Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship. The author verified whether the impact of the survival time of trading companies o...