Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung von gesundheitspolitischen Maßnahmen für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und die Finanzplanung von Krankenkassen. Fokus der Arbeit sind die gesetzlichen Krankenkassen und dort im Speziellen der Risikostrukturausgleich.Die Arbeit berührt sowohl...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research report was to identify a set of strategic tools that can be transferred from the private health sector to the public health sector, to improve efficiency in the public health sector. To attain to this aim, this research report attempted to identify the...

This paper considers the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by physician clinics with ten or fewer physicians. The paper considers the theoretical economics literature on technology adoption for a new technology and has a place in the empirical tests of these models. The two major...

China is moving towards a market economy. The greater use of market forces has made China richer, accelerated modernisation and increased productive efficiency but has created new problems, including, in the health sector, problems of inequity and allocative inefficiency. From 1997, the Chinese...

The breakdown of the planned economy in the Czech Republic induced many changes for the Czech sugar industry. Successful restructuring should foster competitiveness of sugar production and processing. Another target of the sugar sector is its preparation for EU-accession by adjusting to EU...

The paper is focused on the modeling of a partial equilibrium on the beef market in the Czech Republic. The goal of the paper is a construction and a quantification of a partial equilibrium model of mentioned trade, used for simulation purpose and enabling delimitation of main determinants of...

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech...