Preface ......................................................... 5
CHAPTER I: INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Antonin RUSEK - CEFTA Countries and the European Union
(Financial Sector and Currency Regimes) ...................... 8
Janina WITKOWSKA - Policy Towards Foreign Direct Investors in
Poland. Comparative Aspects ................................. 22
Tomasz MICHALSKI - The Polish Way to the European Union ........ 31
Zofia WYSOKINSKA - Impact of Poland's Trade with the
European Union on the Polish Labour Market .................. 37
Katja ZAJC - Integration Potential Assessment and Revealed
Comparative Advantages According to Technological Product
Groups ...................................................... 61
Andrej KUMAR - Integration Potential and Grubel-Lloyd Index .... 75
CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPARISON OF COUNTRIES
BEING SUBJECTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Slawomir DOROSIEWICZ, Tomasz MICHALSKI - Measuring the
Similarity of Economic Processes ............................ 90
Agata SZCZUKOCKA - Presentation of Some Chosen Systems of
Assessing Creditworthiness .................................. 96
Stanislaw BARTCZAK, Wactawa STARZYNSKA - Harmonized Indices
of Consumer Prices in the European Union. Methodology
and Application ............................................ 1ll
Andrzej KOKOSZKIEWICZ - On Estimation of an Econometric
Model with Data Co-linearity or with Degeneration .......... 122
CHAPTER III: SECTORIAL DEVELOPMENT
Maria GRZELAK, Justyna LUBOWSKA - Taxonomy in the
Evaluation of Similarities in the Agriculture in Poland
and Selected European Member States ........................ 126
Janusz ZROBEK - Marketing as a Tool for Preparing Farmers
for the Accession to the European Union .................... 136
Edyta DWORAK - Restructuring Programmes of Polish Industry
During Systemic Transformation Period ...................... 149
Malgorzata CZERNIELEWSKA - Net Welfare Gain for Polish
Society Resulting from the Formation of a Free Trade
Area in Industrial Goods Between Poland and the European
Community - Estimates ...................................... 165
Wactawa STARZYNSKA - Public Procurement Markets in
Central European Countries ................................. 173
Iwona CZECHOWSKA - The Evolution of Treasury and Money Bills
Markets in Poland .......................................... 184
Grazyna JUSZCZAK-SZUMACHER, Bartosz SZELIGA - Tendencies
in the Polish Foreign Trade and its Comparison to the EU
Member Countries ........................................... 206
CHAPTER IV: LABOUR MARKET AND REGIONAL INEOUALITIES
Maja BILJAN-AUGUST, Vinko KANDZIJA, Ljiljana LOVRIC - The
Labour Market in the European Union and in the Republic
of Croatia ................................................. 218
Grazyna JUSZCZAK-SZUMACHER, Bogdan SUCHECKI - The Economic
Effects of Possible Changes in Polish Labour Law in the
Context of the EU Requirements. An Econometric Analysis .... 228
Anna MALARSKA - Duration of Unemployment in Poland. Panel
Analysis ................................................... 245
Wojciech MICHALSKI, Barbara NOWAKOWSKA - Regional
Inequalities in Poland in the Context of the External
Supporting of the Regional Development ..................... 262
Snezana PLAVSIC, Gordana BILBILOVSKA - Problem of Social,
Economic and Regional Inequalities in Balkan Countries
in the Process of the European Integration ................. 273
Antonin RUSEK - Russia - Is There a Light at the End of
the Tunnel? ................................................ 280
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