Empirical research on the differences between unit values in the EU's trade with the Czech Republic and the intra-EU average has shown a significant changes. The comparative level of manufacturing products imported from the Czech republic has increased, the comparative level of products exported...

Investment expenditure relates to an evident optimization problem: to create an optimal capital stock which is a function of expected profits. According to the Tobin´s Q - theory, investment depends on the ratio Q of the market value of business capital assets to their replacement value. A...

The importance of trade and transport ties between Czechoslovakia and Federal Republic of Germany (FGR) is the result not only of the geopolitical situation of both countries in Central Europe but also of their mutual economic contacts, and those with other countries as well. The consequences of...

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

The paper “Possibilities of regional disparities´ measurement – a new viewpoint” is devoted to the description and analysis of utilization of statistical-mathematic methods with whose help it is possible to expertly evaluate trends and development trends in the field of regional...

Small and medium size enterprises in the Moravia-Silesian Region and issues associated with their development can be examined from various points of view. These aspects have to be synthetically linked, since we can state that individual factors are mutually interconnected. Development of small...

Brownfields are old, unused sites and buildings located in urban areas and open countryside. This article deals with problems of brownfields that developed as a result of restructuring national industry, a decreased significance of primary and secondary industry, and the increase of tertiary...

The paper provides an exploratory analysis of regional dynamics among 264 NUTS2 EU-27 regions over the period 1992-2006. Seven different regional indicators are analyzed including wages, household expenditures, retail sales, investments, productivity, GDP, and GDP adjusted for international...