This article provides a summary of the refining industry development in the Czech Republic. It attempts to estimate tariffs charged by national transport company MERO and compare them with tariffs charged by other East European transit countries. National energy security in the matter of crude...

In most industrialized countries, renewable energy is supported by policy schemes burden of which is distributed among taxpayers and energy consumers. Renewable sources of energy face a major problem because of their intermittency and that has not been adequately reflected in the discussions of...

Príspevok sa zaoberá energetickou politikou EÚ, jej dokumentmi a energetickým mixom tohto spoločenstva. Globálny dopyt po energiách narastá veľmi rýchlo. Ceny ropy ostávajú neustále na vysokých úrovniach a s výnimkou Arktídy sa neočakávajú objavy nových nálezísk pre...

The authors' approach to the ethical and political aspects of inter-temporal interactions is the following: 1) Two representative agents Ra and Râ are analyzed and asymmetries in their wealth and voting powers are dealt with by a the text-book tool of a welfare function - its intra and...

The submitted paper is focused on the evaluation of the Common Agriculture Policy impact on economic results of Czech organic farmers. The aim of the paper is a complex evaluation of the influence of subsidy on production, costs, profit and technical efficiency of organic farms. The partial aim...

Napriek tomu, že v súčasnosti sa pozornosť vedeckej, ale aj širokej verejnosti obracia k finančnej kríze, problematika environmentálnych otázok a predovšetkým klimatických zmien je z dlhodobého hľadiska veľmi dôležitá. Autorka sa vo svojom príspevku zaoberá environmentálnymi...

The aim of this article is to characterise the process of consumer and mortgage loans legislative harmonization as a part of reduction of credit market integration barriers. The harmonization of consumer credit market law is a long-term process in European Union. For mortgage loan markets, the...

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...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) finance their business activities primary with clients’ deposits, equity or with external funding. The aim of our thesis is to determine whether macroeconomic development and the size of banking sector affect the range of external funding and consequently the...

This paper investigates the possible reasons why many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have gradually experienced a decrease in the share of female borrowers in their portfolios over the last few years. We confirm that the share of women may be decreasing due to the growing dependence of the...