Department of Theory of Economics

Name of the unit:  Department of Theory of Economics
Head:  Professor Andrzej Szopa
Website:  http://kte.uek.krakow.pl
Telephone:  +48 12 293 5345; 12 2935379
Email:

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Fax:  +48 12 2935048
Main research areas:

1. Ecology and Environmental Studies

2. Economics

3. European Studies

4. Finance and Banking

5. Industrial Relations & Labor Market

6. Health Policy and Services

Description:

Different problems of financial engineering, problems of sovereign default, public debt and deficit and fiscal aspects of European monetary integration, related to the economics of health, the functioning of health care systems and their development, health policy of the Member States of the EU and its coordination in terms of European integration, production and employment structure of the Polish economy in the context of the EU integration, ecological taxes, spending on ecological research and development, eco-
innovation and EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), structure, functioning and development of the Polish and global financial markets, the problems of sustainable development including environmental issues, innovation and governance, the problems of the development of Polish and global financial markets, in particular in terms of strategies executed by financial institutions and the regulatory policy, the basic mechanisms of functioning of monetary union in Europe and to show how is the role of macroeconomic policy in the process of stabilization of the EMU, theory of human capital, methods of its measurement and investments in that factor, the higher education in Poland, especially the relation between the educational offer and the labor market, problems transformation of the Polish economy, finance the public sector, local government budget, state budget revenues, municipalities source, structure, dynamics, tate budget expenditures, municipalities spending trends, structure, dynamics, taxes types, structure, the budget deficit, sources of financing, public debt, macroeconomic problems, inflation, unemployment, the financial consequences of unemployment in the country, region, municipality and economic growth, economic integration, integration groups such as the European Union, etc., programms of the European Union.

* for research staff of Cracow University of Economics