Manuela Tvaronavičienė
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 264048 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Manuela Tvaronavičienė |
| NOMBRES | Manuela |
| APELLIDO | Tvaronavičienė |
| FIRMA | TVARONAVIČIENĖ M |
| AFILIACIONES | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9667-3730 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
How investments into renewable sources affect economic development
Energy consumption trends reflect an increasing demand for energy. Waste sorting, energy stewardship, and investing in renewable energy sources can help mitigate the consequences of climate change. Sustainability is increasingly dependent on renewable energy sources, as they help ensure long-term economic growth and social stability without dependence on fossil fuels. Scientists, politicians, and investors are interested in the development of alt…
Communication with clients in the development of sustainability
Sustainable development has become a strategic objective for contemporary businesses. It aims to ensure long-term economic growth by creating innovative products and services, efficient resource management, environmental preservation, and promoting social welfare. The interplay between client communication and the development of sustainable innovation has emerged as a critical area of study, intersecting theories of sustainability, innovation man…
Impact of bank financial technology on the performance of banks in the European Union
This article examines how financial technology determines bank performance in different EU countries. The answer to that question would allow banks to choose their development policy. The paper focuses on the main and most popular bank services that are linked to financial technology. A SWOT analysis of FinTech is also presented to show the benefits and drawbacks of FinTech. FinTech-based services are very diverse and are provided by financial fi…
Transition towards a circular economy to build societal resilience to energy shocks
This study examines how circular economy (CE) practices contribute to energy resilience by mitigating the impacts of energy shocks and supporting sustainable development. Through a systematic literature review (SLR) of recent studies, we analyze the ways in which CE strategies—such as resource recovery, renewable energy integration, and closed-loop supply chains—enhance energy security and reduce vulnerability to energy disruptions. Our research …
Focus of performance audit recommendations on the approach of public value creation
Performance audits help to evaluate the performance of the audited public sector entities and, if the recommendations are implemented, contribute to their improvement. In light of the fact that the public sector is primarily concerned with the creation of value for society and for consumers of public services, it is essential that the impact of performance audits is determined with a specific focus on the creation of public value. Although the th…
The impact of the external environment on transferring from linear to circular economy with the mediating role of knowledge assimilation
Knowledge transfer, assimilation, transformation and exploitation significantly impact performing business activities, developing innovations and moving forward to new business models such as transferring to a circular economy. However, organizations’ decisions or willingness to transition to a circular economy are very often also influenced by the external environment. The study aims to determine the influence of the external environment on the …
Exploring Environmental Factors for the Sports Clusters Development
The development of a sports cluster is an important social task, the solution of which contributes not only to the balance of the local economy, but also to the involvement of the most progressive segments of the population in entrepreneurial activities, tending to a proper lifestyle and active leisure. The growth of entrepreneurial activity in this segment of the economy is determined by many factors, including the state policy for the developme…
Quality of life of the youth
Based on existing approaches to assessing the quality of life and similar concepts in human capital management, a quality of life index for young people is proposed. It takes into account the factors of four groups that determine the subjective satisfaction with the quality of life: Economic environment; Socio-political environment; Social environment; Natural environment. Partial factors and their corresponding quality of life indicators are ada…
The possibilities and consequences of investment decisions by stepwise optimization
The paper deals with the application of stochastic optimization principles for investment decision making. The authors present the investment management system based on an adequate portfolio model. For optimal portfolio construction and stock selection, the method of stochastically informative expertise and ranging is used. Investment portfolios in equity and currency markets are formed considering investor risk tolerance and risk preference leve…
Internal funding determinants of R&D expenditures for U.S. mature firms
Since research and development (R&D) investment identified as the main factor for economic development in contemporary endogenous models, many studies investigated the determinants of such investment. Though there is no disagreement that internal financing sources are vital for R&D expenditures (at least for matured firms), there are still ongoing discussions as to which of them takes priority: revenue or cash flows. This paper analyses the impac…
Analyzing the Status of Sustainable Development in the Manufacturing Sector Using Multi-Expert Multi-Criteria Fuzzy Decision-Making and Integrated Triple Bottom Lines
A sustainable manufacturing company depends on the developments in three aspects in order to minimize harmful impacts on the environment, improve the social relations, and simultaneously maximize the economic benefits. Despite the increasing types of investigations that researchers have carried out in environmental and economic aspects, the minimum attention has been paid to social relations. In response to this deficiency, this paper proposes a …
Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly …
Assessment of the factors influencing competitiveness fostering the country’s sustainability
Competitiveness is a complex economic category that is closely related to the country’s sustainability. Sustainability can be achieved through the creation of added value, the fostering of quality management and the applying principles of social responsibility, and each area of the activity trying to be competitive at the same time. It follows that both competitiveness and sustainability are dependent on a number of factors at both micro and macr…
Problems of measuring country's financial security
The aim is to define the key issues ensuring financial security of a country. The studies proposes a technique to calculate a country's quality management index for a financial as a weighted average of the country's overall compliance with key international standards, rules and principles in the sector. The study uses statistical information from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, the World Bank Database and the Organization for Economic …
Methodology of complex analysis for production costs at manufacturing enterprises
Production cost is one of the most important company's activity indicators characterizing company's expenditure related to production and sales. Under competitive market conditions it is important for managers to be aware of the actual production cost and of the possibilities to decrease it. It can be achieved by conducting complex analysis of the production cost. The aim of this article is to substantiate the significance of expenditures and pro…
Industry 4.0 Significance to competition and the EU competition policy
The coming fourth industrial revolution means many inevitable changes in firms' competition and the challenges they pose to industrial and competition policies. Therefore, to examine how it is going to affect competition and competition policy, this paper reviews the related literature of industrial policy, industrial organization and new trade theory. For this purpose, employing the semi-systematic review method, the report explores the theoreti…
Factors affecting development patterns
In this paper it is assumed that equity markets reflect the development of the overall economy of a country. Equity markets, among other factors, are considerably affected by factors such as inflation or deflation. Therefore, when inflationary or deflationary pressures appear, Central Banks try to manage those pressures in order to minimise their impact on the economy. In this paper, the case of Japan will be examined. Japan can be considered an …
Income distribution peculiarities in differently developed selected European countries versus Qatar
Development patterns of any country are determined by a wide array of factors. Those factors differ in developed and less developed countries. Developed countries, as a rule, rely on human resources, while less developed countries build their wellbeing on available natural resources. Anyway, income distribution across society of any country is an important constituent of entrepreneurship competitive potential. If the middle class prevails in a so…
Cultural and creative industries for sustainable postindustrial regional development
Under the conditions of globalisation and rapid urbanisation small economies are facing the problem of sustainable regional development, especially in the regions with low population density. Historically, in order to overcome economic disparities in disadvantaged regions, national governments have been taking various strategies for the existing low-tech and cheap-labourbased industry stimulation. However, within open economies and human resource…
Sustainable economic growth and innovative development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic, innovative and business potential of the regional centres and contribute to the sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational policies…
Energy Efficiency in the Long-Run in the Selected European Countries
In the presented paper assumption is being raised that ceteris paribus forecasted energy efficiency until the year 2050 reveals competitive potential, which could be reached if technological progress is ongoing and no radical changes in the energy consumption culture are observed. The research methodology is as follows. In order to clarify what trends of energy efficiency change are preconditioned by the structure of the economy, technological po…
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) and sustainable development
The cultural and creative industries link the traditional knowledge to the ultimate consumer in their capacity to serve both cultural and economic objectives. In this regard, the cultural and creative industries can be seen as consistent with the sustainable development paradigm. Cultural industries cluster is playing an increasingly important role in the development of Chinese cultural industries. This article looks at the Cluster Development St…
Overconfidence, risk aversion and individual financial decisions in experimental asset markets
Prior experiments revealed that investors’ overconfidence can result in excessive trade and negative wealth effects. However, in most of these studies, informational asymmetries were part of the experimental design, and therefore no clear conclusion on whether the obtained results were driven by overconfidence or informational asymmetries could be made. The article addresses this issue by analysing individual financial decisions based on the stud…
The impact of regime-switching behaviour of price volatility on efficiency of the US sovereign debt market
This article focuses on the asset price volatility at the stock exchange that result from the regime switching behaviour in the market. This study is devoted to the question about how the asset price volatility affects the US sovereign debt market. The efficient market hypothesis has been a base for the asset pricing. This hypothesis is discussed in this study. The review of the literature reveals nuances of behavioural finance theory, and allows…
Sustainable economic growth and development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic and business potential of the regional centers and contribute to the innovations and sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational poli…
Problems of measuring country's financial security
The aim is to define the key issues ensuring financial security of a country. The studies proposes a technique to calculate a country's quality management index for a financial as a weighted average of the country's overall compliance with key international standards, rules and principles in the sector. The study uses statistical information from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, the World Bank Database and the Organization for Economic …
Cultural and creative industries for sustainable postindustrial regional development
Under the conditions of globalisation and rapid urbanisation small economies are facing the problem of sustainable regional development, especially in the regions with low population density. Historically, in order to overcome economic disparities in disadvantaged regions, national governments have been taking various strategies for the existing low-tech and cheap-labourbased industry stimulation. However, within open economies and human resource…
Internal funding determinants of R&D expenditures for U.S. mature firms
Since research and development (R&D) investment identified as the main factor for economic development in contemporary endogenous models, many studies investigated the determinants of such investment. Though there is no disagreement that internal financing sources are vital for R&D expenditures (at least for matured firms), there are still ongoing discussions as to which of them takes priority: revenue or cash flows. This paper analyses the impac…
Sustainable economic growth and innovative development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic, innovative and business potential of the regional centres and contribute to the sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational policies…
Sustainable economic growth and development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic and business potential of the regional centers and contribute to the innovations and sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational poli…
Peculiarities of Income Distribution in Selected Countries
The research is dedicated to the analysis of income distribution in selected countries. Middle segment of households with disposable income between 10 000 USD and 30 000 USD is in the focus of the performed here analysis. The following assumption is being raised: the pattern of income distribution, and especially the size of middle class are the preconditions for sustainable entrepreneurship in every country. We compare the current income distrib…
Qualifications of managers vs. effectiveness of investment funds in Poland
Purpose -The main objective of this paper is to assess the impact of qualifications of the management staff on the effectiveness of open investment funds. Design / methodology / approach -In the research the models derived from capital asset pricing model (CAPM) group, namely Henriksson-Merton model and Treynor-Mazuy have been applied. Findings -Investment funds operating in the Polish market divided into four groups of funds have been subject to…
Energy security and sustainable competitiveness of industry development
The article deals with an urgent contemporary issue of sustainable development by tackling controversy and incompatibility of economic aims: to combine energy security, economic growth, steward environmental health and maintain long-term competitiveness. A discussion about perception of energy security, future trends of energy consumption, economic growth and mode of impact of energetically secure economic growth on environment and level of inter…
Aproaches towards cluster analysis
Th e purpose of this study is to review cluster research and the methodology used to achieve the target. Specifi cally, this research explores the methods that are used in research papers aiming at cluster study. Bibliometrical analysis is used depending on an original database, created by the authors, selected after close review. 33 research papers were taken into consideration, published from 1999 to 2014 in international scientifi c journals. …
Qualifications of managers vs. effectiveness of investment funds in Poland
Purpose -The main objective of this paper is to assess the impact of qualifications of the management staff on the effectiveness of open investment funds. Design / methodology / approach -In the research the models derived from capital asset pricing model (CAPM) group, namely Henriksson-Merton model and Treynor-Mazuy have been applied. Findings -Investment funds operating in the Polish market divided into four groups of funds have been subject to…
Issues of Latvian Energy Supply Security
Recognized criminal offences in the field of electrical power engineering services do harm to energy supply merchants, users of electric energy, and human lives and health, and leave a negative effect on economic development. According to Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13th July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC cancellation requirements, d…
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) and sustainable development
The cultural and creative industries link the traditional knowledge to the ultimate consumer in their capacity to serve both cultural and economic objectives. In this regard, the cultural and creative industries can be seen as consistent with the sustainable development paradigm. Cultural industries cluster is playing an increasingly important role in the development of Chinese cultural industries. This article looks at the Cluster Development St…
Overconfidence, risk aversion and individual financial decisions in experimental asset markets
Prior experiments revealed that investors’ overconfidence can result in excessive trade and negative wealth effects. However, in most of these studies, informational asymmetries were part of the experimental design, and therefore no clear conclusion on whether the obtained results were driven by overconfidence or informational asymmetries could be made. The article addresses this issue by analysing individual financial decisions based on the stud…
The impact of regime-switching behaviour of price volatility on efficiency of the US sovereign debt market
This article focuses on the asset price volatility at the stock exchange that result from the regime switching behaviour in the market. This study is devoted to the question about how the asset price volatility affects the US sovereign debt market. The efficient market hypothesis has been a base for the asset pricing. This hypothesis is discussed in this study. The review of the literature reveals nuances of behavioural finance theory, and allows…
Sustainable economic growth and development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic and business potential of the regional centers and contribute to the innovations and sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational poli…
Linkage between company scores and stock returns
Previous studies on company scores conducted at firm-level, generally concluded that there exists a positive relation between company scores and stock returns. Motivated by these studies, this study examines the relationship between company scores (Corporate Governance Score, Economic Score, Environmental Score, and Social Score) and stock returns, both at portfoliolevel analysis and firm-level cross-sectional regressions. In portfolio-level anal…
Peculiarities of Income Distribution in Selected Countries
The research is dedicated to the analysis of income distribution in selected countries. Middle segment of households with disposable income between 10 000 USD and 30 000 USD is in the focus of the performed here analysis. The following assumption is being raised: the pattern of income distribution, and especially the size of middle class are the preconditions for sustainable entrepreneurship in every country. We compare the current income distrib…
Sustainable economic growth and innovative development of educational systems
This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic, innovative and business potential of the regional centres and contribute to the sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational policies…
Energy Efficiency in the Long-Run in the Selected European Countries
In the presented paper assumption is being raised that ceteris paribus forecasted energy efficiency until the year 2050 reveals competitive potential, which could be reached if technological progress is ongoing and no radical changes in the energy consumption culture are observed. The research methodology is as follows. In order to clarify what trends of energy efficiency change are preconditioned by the structure of the economy, technological po…
Factors affecting development patterns
In this paper it is assumed that equity markets reflect the development of the overall economy of a country. Equity markets, among other factors, are considerably affected by factors such as inflation or deflation. Therefore, when inflationary or deflationary pressures appear, Central Banks try to manage those pressures in order to minimise their impact on the economy. In this paper, the case of Japan will be examined. Japan can be considered an …
Income distribution peculiarities in differently developed selected European countries versus Qatar
Development patterns of any country are determined by a wide array of factors. Those factors differ in developed and less developed countries. Developed countries, as a rule, rely on human resources, while less developed countries build their wellbeing on available natural resources. Anyway, income distribution across society of any country is an important constituent of entrepreneurship competitive potential. If the middle class prevails in a so…
Cultural and creative industries for sustainable postindustrial regional development
Under the conditions of globalisation and rapid urbanisation small economies are facing the problem of sustainable regional development, especially in the regions with low population density. Historically, in order to overcome economic disparities in disadvantaged regions, national governments have been taking various strategies for the existing low-tech and cheap-labourbased industry stimulation. However, within open economies and human resource…
Analyzing the Status of Sustainable Development in the Manufacturing Sector Using Multi-Expert Multi-Criteria Fuzzy Decision-Making and Integrated Triple Bottom Lines
A sustainable manufacturing company depends on the developments in three aspects in order to minimize harmful impacts on the environment, improve the social relations, and simultaneously maximize the economic benefits. Despite the increasing types of investigations that researchers have carried out in environmental and economic aspects, the minimum attention has been paid to social relations. In response to this deficiency, this paper proposes a …
Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly …
Assessment of the factors influencing competitiveness fostering the country’s sustainability
Competitiveness is a complex economic category that is closely related to the country’s sustainability. Sustainability can be achieved through the creation of added value, the fostering of quality management and the applying principles of social responsibility, and each area of the activity trying to be competitive at the same time. It follows that both competitiveness and sustainability are dependent on a number of factors at both micro and macr…
Problems of measuring country's financial security
The aim is to define the key issues ensuring financial security of a country. The studies proposes a technique to calculate a country's quality management index for a financial as a weighted average of the country's overall compliance with key international standards, rules and principles in the sector. The study uses statistical information from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, the World Bank Database and the Organization for Economic …
Methodology of complex analysis for production costs at manufacturing enterprises
Production cost is one of the most important company's activity indicators characterizing company's expenditure related to production and sales. Under competitive market conditions it is important for managers to be aware of the actual production cost and of the possibilities to decrease it. It can be achieved by conducting complex analysis of the production cost. The aim of this article is to substantiate the significance of expenditures and pro…
Industry 4.0 Significance to competition and the EU competition policy
The coming fourth industrial revolution means many inevitable changes in firms' competition and the challenges they pose to industrial and competition policies. Therefore, to examine how it is going to affect competition and competition policy, this paper reviews the related literature of industrial policy, industrial organization and new trade theory. For this purpose, employing the semi-systematic review method, the report explores the theoreti…
Internal funding determinants of R&D expenditures for U.S. mature firms
Since research and development (R&D) investment identified as the main factor for economic development in contemporary endogenous models, many studies investigated the determinants of such investment. Though there is no disagreement that internal financing sources are vital for R&D expenditures (at least for matured firms), there are still ongoing discussions as to which of them takes priority: revenue or cash flows. This paper analyses the impac…
Quality of life of the youth
Based on existing approaches to assessing the quality of life and similar concepts in human capital management, a quality of life index for young people is proposed. It takes into account the factors of four groups that determine the subjective satisfaction with the quality of life: Economic environment; Socio-political environment; Social environment; Natural environment. Partial factors and their corresponding quality of life indicators are ada…
The possibilities and consequences of investment decisions by stepwise optimization
The paper deals with the application of stochastic optimization principles for investment decision making. The authors present the investment management system based on an adequate portfolio model. For optimal portfolio construction and stock selection, the method of stochastically informative expertise and ranging is used. Investment portfolios in equity and currency markets are formed considering investor risk tolerance and risk preference leve…
The impact of the external environment on transferring from linear to circular economy with the mediating role of knowledge assimilation
Knowledge transfer, assimilation, transformation and exploitation significantly impact performing business activities, developing innovations and moving forward to new business models such as transferring to a circular economy. However, organizations’ decisions or willingness to transition to a circular economy are very often also influenced by the external environment. The study aims to determine the influence of the external environment on the …
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