Financial instability is a recurring, macroeconomic phenomenon which has been manifesting itself in form of the Great Recession since 2007. The paper pursues the question of how financial instability affects the risk of a country. We discuss the relation of the risk of a particular country to...

Origins and implications of twin deficits occurrence in a large scale of countries seems to be a center of rigorous empirical as well as theoretical investigation for decades. The reality of persisting fiscal and current account deficits became obvious in many advanced as well as advancing,...

The article examines the representation and structure of logistic parks in the Czech Republic. Logistic parks in the article are complexes rented by park operators where more providers of logistics services perform their activities. A database of logistic parks has been created and analyzed by...

The article deals with the analysis of operational risk in commercial banking in Slovakia. The importance of operational risk has increased due to Basel II including capital requirements for operational risk in new concept of capital adequacy. The aim of this paper is to quantify the...

The main objective of this article is to suggest and create the composite leading indicators for a short term prediction of the business cycles in Poland and Slovakia. In the theoretical part we define the composite leading indicator and its importance for the monitoring of the economic cycles....

This paper describes the economic potential of remittances, especially in comparison with the Official Development Assistance (ODA) in selected South Asian countries. It appears that remittance transfers contribute to the increase of GDP per capita in South Asian countries and beat the ODA both...

Integration process, harmonisation of bank legislation and mutual economic interdependence among European countries contribute to similar evolution of several financial indicators in the European Union. Current financial and economic crisis has revealed that some indicators evolved similarly...

In today's fast-paced society, waiting is not something most people tolerate well. As people work for longer hours, individuals have less leisure and families have fewer hours together, the pressure on people's time is greater than ever. In this environment, customers are looking for efficient,...

European Union member countries are currently exposed to negative implications of the economic and debt crisis. Questions associated with disputable implications of fiscal incentives seem to be contrary to the crucial need of the effective fiscal consolidation that seems to be necessary to...

Company performance measurement using profit indicators seem to be overcome. Currently, the tendency to apply new synthetic metrics involving actual activities into future results of a company has occurred. One of more and more popular methods of performance measurement and management is the...