This paper assesses the effects of general and emotional intelligence and personality preferences on academic performance. The question is examined using surveys among students in economics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. In our examination we primarily used regression analysis. With our...

The economic and social roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are among the most puzzling mysteries of the current literature. The British Industrial Revolution initiate the era of a sustained economic growth all over the word and established institutions that have important effects even...

Our study focuses on the effect of personality type and personality preferences measured by the Myers–Briggs typology, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample from two slightly similar bachelor majors studied at...

In the international literature of information asymmetry research on the field of marketing has been published since the 1970s. Several authors revealed the signal function of the quantity and specificity of the information in the marketing communication activities mainly in case of experience...

The newest, quadripartite typology of Western European welfare states needs some modifications nowadays. The Nordic and the Southern model have remained intact but the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon types have significantly converged (regardless of the economic crisis) that can be explained...

The present economic downturn has tried the Nordic and Continental states with extended welfare systems less than the Anglo-Saxon ones. This originates mainly in the automatic stabilisers which have been working with full blast with the effect of smaller decline in private consumption in the...

Majority of the literature accept the fact that globalization affects the welfare state. According to te great mass of these authors, governments face a double jeopardy, demand for expenditures grew but at the same time the sources of the receipts diminished. The welfare states responded unlike...

Theories on the relationship of globalization and welfare state can be classified into three groups. Globalists hold that globalization threatens welfare state and the anticipated result is its retreat. Sceptics hold that globalization does not constrain the authonomy of national policy....

One of the most important success factors in the organic food industry is the positive image that a significant number of customers attach to organic products in many countries, which includes the perception of healthiness and also sensory characteristics such as smell, texture or taste. Several...

Alongside the numerous negative effects of the 2008 economic crisis, we can emphasize perhaps one positive aspect: one consequence of the crisis has been that attention has been paid to the low level of financial literacy among the population and the importance of financial education. Research...