The primary aim of the paper is an analysis of the relationships between growth, innovation and subsidies based on a large firm-level data set in the period 2004-2007. The novelty of the approach lies in linking data from financial statements with data from innovation surveys of the Czech...

The aim of the article is to describe theoretical concepts related to the effects of state subsidies on enterprises and to discuss the magnitude and effect of state aid on enterprises during the transformation of the Czech economy. Subsidies to enterprises during transformation were high, often...

The study focuses on patterns and trends in concentration in the Czech manufacturing during the period 1989 - 1997. In the 90s Czech manufacturing experienced rapid and deep change in the market structures. Most of manufacturing markets de-concentrated between 1989 - 1995. Rapid change occurred...

In the period of 1991-96 there were large volumes of foreign direct investment directed to various Czech manufacturing industries and services. Our empirical analysis has shown that enterprises of the manufacturing sector, into which the foreign capital was invested, were generally physical...

Nation-wide firm-level data are used for the time series and cross-section analysis of foreign direct investment in manufacturing on 2digit and 3digit industries. Dynamics of foreign investment enterprises (FIEs) are computed for the period 1993-1996. The performance of FIEs is compared with the...

The policy of investment incentives is applied in majority of countries all over the world. This popularity is in contradiction with rare academic analyses. This paper sheds some light on causal impact of such policy on investment of supported firms in Czech Republic. We use individual level...

In this paper, the trends and the geographic and sectoral structure of Czech outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) are analyzed. OFDI flows out of the Czech Republic accelerated in 2009 and 2010, and OFDI stock reached EUR 11 billion. The sectoral breakdown of OFDI broadened to include energy...

The primary aim of the paper is an analysis of the relationships between growth, innovation and subsidies based on a large firm-level data set in the period 2004-2007. The novelty of the approach lies in linking data from financial statements with data from innovation surveys of the Czech...