Profile: Elena Fifeková, Ing., PhD., Researcher


Research Field

  • Economic development
  • Institutional quality, income and wealth inequality
  • Competitiveness

Forecasts, Prospects, Analyzes, Strategies

  • Examining the quality and dynamics of economic growth, bottlenecks in the process of globalization, economic competitiveness and convergence. Assessment of the institutional quality, causes and consequences of deepening inequality in the global and regional dimension.

Concise Profile

Elena Fifeková, research fellow in the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy. Graduated and PhD earned from the University of Economics in Bratislava.


Scientific Projects


Selected Publishing Activity

FIFEKOVÁ, E. - NEMCOVÁ, E. - NEŽINSKÝ, E. - STUDENÁ, I. Dilemmas of Economic Growth. The path from unlimited possibilities towards responsibility? 1. vyd. Praha : Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7676-042-4

BALÁŽ, V. - WILLIAMS, A. M. - FIFEKOVÁ, E. Migration decision making as complex choice: eliciting decision weights under conditions of imperfect and complex information through experimental methods. In Population, Space and Place. - London : John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 1544-8444, 2016, vol. 22, no.1.

FIFEKOVÁ, E. - NEŽINSKÝ, E. - NEMCOVÁ, E.. Global Competitiveness of Europe: A Robust Assessment. - Registrovaný: Scopus. In Danube: Law, Economics and Social Issues Review. - Berlin : De Gruyter. 2018, no. 4, ISSN 1804-6746, no. 4,

FIFEKOVÁ, E. - NEMCOVÁ, E.. Impact of FDI on economic growth: evidence from V4 countries. In Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences. - Budapest : University of Technology and Economics. ISSN 1587-3803, 2015, vol. 23, no. 1.

BALÁŽ, V. - FIFEKOVÁ, E. - NEMCOVÁ, E.. Ellsbergov paradox: rozhodovanie za podmienok rizika a neistoty. In Ekonomický časopis. - Bratislava : Ústav slovenskej a svetovej ekonomiky SAV : Prognostický ústav SAV, 2009. ISSN 0013-3035, 2009, roč. 57, č. 3.

FIFEKOVÁ, Elena - NEŽINSKÝ, Eduard - NEMCOVÁ, Edita. Disparities in EU Regions: First Take. In Economic and Social Policy. Ostrava : Vysoká škola PRIGO, 2021. ISSN 2571-1776.