This article tries to summarize achievements of ten years anniversary of WTO (1995-2005) and the negotiations taking place at its summits from Seattle (1999) to Hongkong (2005). These achievements could be characterized at best as mediocre ones. WTO has been muddling through numerous disputes,...

As a consequence of the new regionalism a marked increase in the number of regional groupings can be observed which makes the preferential relations between states even more complicated and complex. One of such complex relationships, which did not come to being during the third wave of...

Future of the European Union and its future directions should be the most important subject of the European Studies, which combine studies of Economy, Political Science, International Relations and other disciplines to study the European Integration Process in its complexity. This applies...

Kontrakcia svetovej ekonomiky bude mať výrazne negatívny vplyv na všetky oblasti života spoločnosti. Sú hospodárske krízy predikovateľné? Ex post štúdie nasvedčujú, že skôr nie. Je možné odhadnúť riziko a pravdepodobnosť vzniku krízy, avšak nie čas ich skutočnej...

The main objective of the authors is to provide a self-contained survey aimed at regional distribution of German and Austrian foreign direct investments in the Czech Republic with emphasis on the processing industry, technology centers and centers of strategic services with a detailed view of...

Each year we are informed in the "World Competitiveness Yearbook" , which is published by the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, about the bad and/or deteriorating competitiveness of Centraleuropean transition countries, although their export performance, as well as...

The paper focuses on selective investment incentives, which are aimed primarily to attract foreign direct investment, in the context of the new EU Member States, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We discuss the issue within three closely related dimensions. We point to a...

The article deals with the phenomenon of globalization and in particular its influence on production chains of multinational firms. The on-going process of globalization has set off new trends and possibilities of production (e.g. outsourcing) which resulted in changes of firms´ behaviour. This...

Candidate countries for accession to the EU often view EU convergence criteria as difficult given that the period of faster growth that real convergence necessitates is usually associated with higher inflation. This paper argues that it is important to focus on the mechanism of real convergence...

The Czech Republic is a destination of huge direct foreign investments (FDI) in last ten years. FDI impact all basic macro-economic indicators - they affect economic expansion, price level progress, employment market also country outer economic standing. But real impression of FDI is far...