Economy, society, environment and sometimes indicated institutional and political system – on these pillars is based the idea of sustainable development. The necessity for a global balance in these dimensions hinders the multidimensional approach of ideas. These difficulties increase when the...

The main purpose of this paper is to consider the development of total factor productivity in the development of gross value added in individual sectors of the economy of the Czech Republic in the period from 1996 - 2011. The National Account was the source of the data. The paper addresses the...

In the transition periods between new technologies, marked setbacks in productivity growth are possible. Whereas new private goods are not fully visible in national accounts, often only their negative substitution effects turn up. If this is a market phenomenon, it should be reflected in weaker...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of interest rate, inflation rate, and GDP on real economic growth in Jordan over the period 2000-2010. Unit root test (Augmented Dickey-Fuller test) has been exploited to check the integration order of the variables. Acointegration...

The starting point for the research has been the list of 147 banking crises within the period 1976–2011 prepared by the International Monetary Fund. The countries with crises have been analysed with respect to publicly available World Bank indicators in the periods of three years before the...

In den vergangenen Jahren hat der Welthandel im Durchschnitt schwächer zugelegt als vor der globalen Finanzkrise. Gleichzeitig haben auch die deutschen Exporte an Fahrt verloren. Die Autoren untersuchen, wie sich diese Entwicklungen auf den deutschen Weltmarktanteil ausgewirkt haben und welche...

Die oftmals anzutreffende Vorstellung, durch die Beseitigung von Steuervergünstigungen ließe sich mit niedrigen Steuersätzen ein merkliches Mehraufkommen bei der Erbschaftsteuer erzielen, beruht auf makrobasierten Schätzungen. Dabei wird das Erbschaftsvolumen mithilfe des...

Durch die anstehende Revision der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen rechnet sich auch Deutschland reicher: Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt wird merklich höher ausfallen, wie schon bei den früheren Revisionen, und auch das Anlagevermögen nimmt rechnerisch deutlich zu. Bedeutsam hierfür ist die...

The quantity equation is a well-established, theoretic, long-run concept that has been criticized for a variety of reasons, i.e., that no precise statements about causality or dynamics between money growth and inflation can be inferred from its components. These shortcomings can be tackled by...

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of...