In the paper, the impact of the operation of international corporations on the exports of domestic firms is investigated in the regional context. One of the often mentioned advantages accompanying the inflow of direct foreign investment to countries undergoing systemic transformation is the role...

This article investigates the role of direct foreign investments in the regional diffusion of intellectual capital in Poland. The empirical results obtained on the basis of the labour market analysis suggest that wages are higher in those regions of Poland which are characterized by greater...

Cieślik A. and Kaniewska M. (2004) Telecommunications infrastructure and regional economic development: the case of Poland, Regional Studies38, 713-725. We develop a theoretical model that establishes a link between telecommunications infrastructure and the regional level of income. This...

This article analyses the activities of Japanese investors in Central and Eastern Europe since the beginning of the region's transition. The use of firm level data on Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region allows us to focus on the industry, location and timing of affiliate...

Following the new strand in the new trade theory literature that focuses on firm heterogeneity initiated by the Melitz [2003] model, in this paper we investigate the determinants of export activity of firms in the Visegrad-4 countries. The study covers the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and...

In the paper we develop a monopolistically competitive general equilibrium model of horizontally-integrated multinational enterprise (MNE) with heterogeneous plants. We demonstrate that smaller productivity differences between domestic and foreign plants increase the level of multinational...

In this paper we estimate the trade effects of the euro adoption in countries that joined the European Union in 2004. We employ a generalized gravity model that controls for an extended set of trade theory and policy variables. Trade theory variables include both the country size and factor...