The article focuses on the economic situation of households in the Czech Republic. It discusses the factors the material deprivation rate and related indicators. These factors include household equipment, other indicators of financial possibilities and inability to pay regular payments on time....

Questionnaire survey data are usually characterized by a great amount of ordinal variables. For multivariate analysis, it is suitable to reduce task dimensionality. The aim of this paper is a comparison of the results obtained by the analysis of data files with ordinal variables using selected...

The paper focuses on the analysis of the particular sectors of non-financial corporations based on mainly yearly national accounts. We explain some of the aggregates of the national accounts but the focus of the paper is placed on the application of standard tools of financial analysis on the...

The article analyses development of liquidity indicators of industrial companies during period 2007-2009 in consequence to accession of global economic crisis. With focus on crisis, it evaluates development of liquidity indicators of industry as a whole and also analyse particular industrial...

The article analyses development of number and structure of extinct economic entities within the years 2006-2010. The analysis modifies primary conclusions about the development of extinct entities according to the adjustments by extraordinary impacts. The structure of extinct entities is...

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization, regulation, interest rate policy and the balance...

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.

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...

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...

The article is based on the thesis that institutional quality influences the economic performance. From this point of view under certain circumstance the government policy is able to increase efficiency and performance of economies through creation, maintenance and cultivation of appropriate...