The global economy and worldwide open market of goods and services creates a favorable environment for expanding technological cooperation among countries. However, such development is also accompanied by an intense movement of the labor force. After opening the EU single market, a large number of foreign workers from the new member countries found the better paying jobs in the highly developed EU countries. The total volume of this financial compensation that was transferred into mother countries was more than USD 70 billion in 2017. A primary question for this situation is the role that these financial sources play in the economies of the mother countries. Have the transferred money contributed to economic growth or have they been materialized in the sphere of private household consumption? Our paper answers these questions in the case of the Visegrad (V4) countries. The scientific literature does not offer a unified position in this respect. The positive, neutral, and negative impacts on concerned economies are presented. In our view, the answers should be verified in the specific conditions of the beneficiary countries, taking into account all the statistically relevant factors. The primary source of our information is statistical data of international organizations, particularly of the United Nations (UN), the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Union, and the International Organization for Migration. As a tool for solution was applied the analysis of panel data.

The private School of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava educates experts for public administration in Slovakia through bachelor and master study programs. The high percentage of graduates employed in governing bodies and municipalities proves the high quality of theoretical and practical level of education. The scientific and pedagogical personnel and particulary the ingenious and comprehensive education quality control system has its share in achieving distinct results. The authors of this article present a well-established system of education quality. They analyze and evaluate the system of quality measuring and evaluating using internal tools and procedures. The article pays special attention to the external form of quality measurement and evaluation through independent international institution Trendence. Criteria and areas of evaluation are assessed throughout the university, Slovakia, and Europe, which is presented by more than 1,000 higher education institutions.

Ensuring sustainable growth of the Slovak Republic is not possible without effective state investment policy. The most important pillar of the analysis by investors is protection (guaranties, insurance) of investments. The research was based on analysis of main protection institutes of investments in Slovak Republic and member states of the European Union for example: multilateral and bilateral treaties on protection of investments, fair equitable treatment, full protection and security, non-discrimination standards, national fonds guarantying investments, government guaranties and international, european and national legislation on investments, protection of investments by arbitration courts. Chosen decision of courts were subjects of analysis, their interpretation and common consent of their application. Base on research, the author proposed de lege ferenda for more effective legislation in investments and sustainable economic growth.

Research purpose. During the last decades, e-commerce sales have been rocketing, and this tendency is expected to increase over the following years. Due to the digital nature of e-commerce, one actual item can be sold on various e-commerce platforms, which leads to the exponential growth of the number of propositions. At the same time, the title and description of this item might differ. All these facts make more complicated for customers the process of searching on online platforms and change business approaches to the development of competitive strategy by e-commerce companies. The research question is how we can apply a machine learning algorithm to detect, based on the product information such as title and description, whether the items are actually relevant to the same product. Methodology. We suggest an approach that is based on a flexible textual data pipeline and the usage of a machine-learning model ensemble. Each step of the data processing is adjustable in dependence on domain issues and data features because we can achieve better results in solving the item-matching task. Findings. The item-matching model is developed. The proposed model is based on the semantic closeness of text descriptions of items and the usage of the core of keywords to present the reference item. Practical implications. We suggest an approach to improving the item searching process on different e-commerce platforms by dividing the process into two steps. The first step is searching for the related items among the set of reference items according to user preferences. The reference item description is created based on our item-matching model. The second step is surfing proposals of similar items on chosen e-commerce platforms. This approach can benefit buyers and sellers in various aspects, such as a low-price guarantee, a flexible strategy of similar products shown, and appropriate category-choosing recommendations.

The purpose of the study is to develop and test in practice the method of analyzing the relationship between the formation of internally generated goodwill and investment attractiveness of an enterprise based on econometric modeling in order to improve the investment management process. Attracting additional investments, both for Slovakia and Ukraine, requires the identification of promising objects of investment. Assessment of enterprise’s potential cannot be accurately performed on the base of financial statements, which reflect only the state of assets. It is necessary to take into account the prospects for development of this business unit in the future, that largely depends on effective functioning of management system. The success of business processes depends on how rationally managers use the resources of the enterprise and form the structure of assets adequate to the demands of the market. The article considers the problem of estimating the value of enterprises in order to attract investments based on internally generated goodwill, and determines the peculiarities of the formation and types of goodwill of a commercial enterprise. As the main research method, canonical correlation modelling was used to analyze data of Ukrainian machine-building enterprises for the period 2017–2020. As a result, the factors responsible for the formation of internally generated goodwill were identified and classified according to their economic nature. Correlation dependencies between groups of initial and resulting coefficients were calculated and the areas of enterprise management that have the greatest impact on the formation of its market value were identified.