Preface

Jakub Gazda, Rafał Kasperowicz

5

Chapter 1.

Forecasting Industrial Business Cycle: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches

Rafal Kasperowicz

7

Chapter 2.

Trade in Tourism Services. Commitments under GATS of New EU Members

Michał Kruszka

19

Chapter 3.

Features of Innovative Development of Educational Services Market in Ukraine

Ivan Gryshchenko

33

Chapter 4.

Interest Rate and Investment; an Attempt at Empirical Verification

Dominika Zenka

51

Chapter 5.

Objective Laws of Environics – Practical Realization of Tectological Processes in Social Systems

Mykola Bilopolsky

56

Chapter 6.

Role of Environics in the Mankind Development and Save

Mykola Bilopolsky

69

Chapter 7.

Exchange Rate as an Instrument of Stabilizing Market Conditions

Ryszard Stefański

84

Chapter 8.

Knowledge Management – Economic Growth Factor

Olga Kalinowska

96

Chapter 9.

Forecasting the Changes in the Construction-Assembly Activity on the Basis of GUS Business Tendency Test Surveys

Jacek Jankiewicz

108

Chapter10.

The Peculiarities of Exhibition Activities on the Educational Market in Ukraine

Nina Krakhmalyova

119

Chapter 11.

Characteristics of Bankruptcy Proceedings in Poland, Endogenous

and Exogenous Reasons for Bankruptcy.........................................................

Karolina Kłobucka

130

Chapter 12.

The Exchange Rate and Inflation in Poland after EU-accession

Marcin Brycz

140

Chapter 13.

The Effects of the Implementation of Phare 2000 “Introduction to Quality” Programme for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises

Edyta Ząbek

147

Chapter 14.

Corporate Social Responsibility – How to Gain Social Acceptance?

Jacek Trębecki, Waldemar Rydzak

156

Chapter 15.

Implementation of the Portfolio Theories for the Calculation of Efficiency of Diversification

Oleg Vitkovskyi

162

About the Authors.

168