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Doing Business in the Czech Republic - an Assessment of Institutional Quality

Kadeřábková, Anna; Šmejkal, Václav - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 2, pp. 164-182

The paper presents results of World Bank survey in 2005 undertaken within the project Doing Business, with special regard to the Czech Republic position. Doing business conditions are assessed particularly according to the regulation burden and its impacts on entrepreneurship. The structure...

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Innovative Activities and Competitiveness in Manufacturing Industry Firms - the Results of the Primary Research

Nečadová, Marta; Breňová, Lubomíra - In: Ekonomika a managment 2009 (2009) 2

In this paper the results of the primary research into business sphere in manufacturing industry are discussed. For our … analysis we used questionnaire survey - the results of the primary research reflect firms´competitiveness and innovative … the particular field. To evaluate firms´attitude to innovative activities, we choose these factors: conditions for …

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An Analysis of Financial Performance Using the EVA Method

Dluhošová, Dana - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 54 (2004) 11-12, pp. 541-559

The paper considers company performance measures and the development of the Economic Value Added (EVA) indicator in volatile economies, particularly in the case of the Czech Republic. Methods used for pyramidal analysis, their assumptions, and their application possibilities are discussed. A...

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Competitiveness and state aid to enterprises

Zemplinerová, Alena; Paneš, Patrik - In: Politická ekonomie 2008 (2008) 2, pp. 182-195

This paper attempts to contribute to the analysis of links between state aid and competitiveness of manufacturing … manufacturing industries and we aimed to answer the question what industries get the subsidies. In the second step we identified … of manufacturing industries in both static as well as dynamic perspective based on correlations. Our analysis confirmed …

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Mission impossible: measuring the informal sector in a transition economy using macro methods

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - In: Politická ekonomie 2006 (2006) 2, pp. 190-203

An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...

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Shareholder Democracy in the Czech Republic (in Czech)

Havel, Jiøí - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 55 (2005) 9-10, pp. 441-459

Joint-stock companies are among the most fundamental components of a market economy. “Voucher privatization” in the Czech Republic saw an abrupt mushrooming of joint-stock companies where none had appeared for over a generation. This occurred in an environment lacking in guiding...

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Estimating the Evolution of Tax Evasion: A Markov Chain Analysis Applied to the Czech Republic (in Czech)

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 56 (2006) 3-4, pp. 127-151

The paper demonstrates how survey methods and retrospective questions can be put to effective use in the study of shadow-economy dynamics; specifically, the evolution of tax evasion in the Czech Republic. The authors measure the average individual's transition between the shadow and official...

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New Economy Index for the Czech Republic

Soukup, Jindřích; Hejduková, Dagmar - In: Ekonomika a managment 2008 (2008) 3

The first part of the paper formulates the definition of the knowledge and the new economies and two systems of quantitative characteristics for the new economy - the American and the European ones. The knowledge economy can be regarded as a general characteristic of the current and important...

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The Competitiveness of the Processing Industrial Firms - the Comparison of the Results of the Primary Research and the Goals of the National Reform Programme

Nečadová, Marta; Breňová, Lubomíra; Průcha, Štěpán - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2007 (2007) 2, pp. 55-70

This article deals with the results of primary research of Czech business sphere. The authors compare and evaluate the opinions of the managers of business sphere on their competitive position and analyze the influence of chosen factors on their competitiveness.

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Definition and topical problems of the information economy

Očko, Petr - In: Politická ekonomie 2005 (2005) 3, pp. 383-404

The core aim of this paper is to suggest comprehensive definition of the information economy and delineate the range of economic problems it deals with, paying particular attention to its connections to the economics of information. The text, in the extent provided, can not investigate...

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