Most Business English instructors at the university level face a problem when dealing with Czech college students: an "information" loaded report, which is a result of the knowledge based educational system where the old "referat" still seems to prevail but has been replaced by a trendier term,...

The text deals with claimants approaching to insolvency proceedings in decisions by courts. It focuses on the application of the Civil Proceedings Act to insolvency proceedings, especially problems of approaching insolvency proceedings. It also reflects the incorrect application of law in the...

The purpose of this article is to compare laws regulating corporate groups in Germany, the United Kingdom and France in order to find the optimal model of regulation of corporate groups and then to compare the findings with the proposed Commercial Corporation Act. Generally, the difference...

The study focuses on solutions to energy problems in East Germany and Czechoslovakia within the limits of their own and Comecon primary sources. It analyzes the dependence on the oil and gas import from the Soviet Union and the differences in energy policies of the governments in Berlin and...

After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the transformation to a market economic system, and mainly the formation of new income sources and the process of a significant differentiation in wages, has caused crucial changes to the income distribution. There have been systematic changes in the model...

Cattle-breeding is one of the most important economical sectors in Bolivia. Its total contribution to Bolivian GDP is 2%. In spite of that, so far, it has not been able to establish stable trade relations with foreign markets. The analysis of supply and demand of meat during the period 2000-2005...

The regression model with categorical dependent variable is a natural generalization of the model with binary dependent variable. It is based on the use of baseline logits. For its building and for the evaluation of its quality, analogous procedures to the case of binary dependent variable are...

The world raw material market has undergone a great change in the recent years. One of the essential reasons is the rapid economic growth of many former developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, etc. These countries were historically and typically producers and...

The article analyses reasons for state regulation, and deals with present regulatory projects aimed at ensuring increased stability of financial, or more precisely, insurance markets, especially with respect to securing an adequate level of consumer protection and lowering information asymmetry....

This article takes focus on the main basic elements of panel data analysis, fixed effects and random effects models, dynamic panel data models. The last part of this article is about possibilities of testing panel data unit roots with a notice about the usage of the application software and...