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Transformation of V4 countries was the first step of the change of the bipolar world diversity. Transformation from the central planned economy to the market economy was a very complex process. The main part of the transformation represents the change of the public ownership towards private property. It was realized by the privatization of state-owned companies. Due to the lack of domestic savings, the involvement and participation of foreign capital seemed to be necessary. Foreign capital was represented mainly b...

In this paper the authors focus on the problem of portfolio selection based on Mean Absolute Deviation risk measure. They try to design new model based of the idea of event tree. It means, that the investor make the decision in every state of investment separate and hold the portfolio from previous period, or change the portfolio. So the investor can optimize the decision on the financial market. The biggest advantage of this model is, that the solution can be never worst like the solution, we get with standard op...

EU countries applying for membership in the monetary union have to fulfill so-called convergence criteria known as well as the Maastricht criteria. One of the prerequisites for its completion is also achieving macroeconomic balance, which contributes to the performance of the economy and increase the growth of competitiveness. Slovakia recorded significant real GDP growth for the period of years 2005 - 2008, which contributed to the fulfillment of the convergence criteria and Slovakia's entry into the monetary uni...

Experiences from the development of the world economy in the first decade of the 21st century shows that the economies of many countries were hit by crisis processes that gradually occur with varying intensity in the form of mortgage, financial, economic, but also political, social, debt, as well as moral, systemic crisis and as well as the crisis of civilization. World global crisis was initially perceived as a crisis, which only applies to the USA. Gradually, as the crisis processes were deepening in other count...

When some European country willing to aspire to the membership in the Eurozone, at first it must cover the Maastricht convergence criteria, which are divided into fiscal (government deficit, public debt) and monetary (price stability, exchange rate stability, stability of long-term interest rates). The basic requirements for criteria were settled at the time of their formulation in the Protocol to the Treaty of European Union. There was the requirement to ensure a high degree of sustainable economic convergence. C...

In recent years, the labor market for young people include to most flagrant problem not only in Europe but worldwide as well. The strategy Europe 2020 has different options for solving the problem of low young people employment at the macro level. In our paper, we have strived to contribute to the expansion of a general view of the unemployment in general and employment of men and women aged 15 to 24 years old. We focused on the current unemployment problem, especially for young people in the European area. Based ...