The article summarizes the main points discussed at the seminar on The Nobel Memorial Prize Laureates 2002, held by the Czech Economic Association (CEA) in March 2002. There were two main speakers at the seminar: The first was Michal Skoøepa (Czech National Bank and Charles University), who...

This paper provides an institutional analysis concerning the current problems of the health care systems based on obligatory health insurance. In the beginning there are correctly defined and further described some particular principles creating the essence of the continental health care...

Efficiency of hospitals belongs among frequently discussed topics of public policy. This paper deals with a nonparametric model for efficiency evaluation of hospitals - data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA evaluates efficiency of production units with the help of mathematical programming. DEA...

Results of a survey concerning the importance of quality management of the educational process among high officials of Czech universities and colleges are summarized in this article. Three of possible methods of quality management in the educational process are described here: Standardization...

We present a model of learning in which agents learn from errors. If an action turns out to be an error, the agent rejects not only that action but also neighboring actions. We find that, keepng memory of his errors, under mild assumptions an acceptable solution is asymptotically reached....