Politická ekonomie, 1998 (vol. 46), issue 2

Articles

Makroekonomická analýza české ekonomiky 1997 - vybrané problémy

Macroeconomic analysis of the czech economy in 1997 - chosen problems

Mojmír Hájek a kol.

Politická ekonomie 1998, 46(2) | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.224

The macroeconomic analysis covers the economic development of the Czech Republic. The paper does not aspire to be an integrated analysis but it only points to chosen problems. Even if the focus is on 1997, it shows the development trends during the transformation. The article gradually focuses on the following areas: GDP, competitiveness, productivity, an external balance, a labour market, inflation, bank credits, and structure of investments.

Vývoj zahraničního obchodu a platební bilance České republiky, Maďarska a Polska

Foreign trade and balance of payments in the Czech republic, Hungary a Poland

Vladimír Tomšík

Politická ekonomie 1998, 46(2) | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.225

The objective of this paper is to analyse one of the greatest problems in the process of transformation of these three economies in 1990-1996 - the foreign trade development. Following political changes in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, economic changes had to be implemented that also implied changes in foreign trade. These crucial changes include abolition of foreign trade monopoly and its liberalisation, introduction of stepwise convertibility of national currencies (for transactions of balance of payments on the current account at first), changes in exchange rate policy, price liberalisation and territorial reorientation of foreign...

Přehled modelů rozhodování jednotlivce v ekonomii

Survey of individual decision making models

Michal Skořepa

Politická ekonomie 1998, 46(2) | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.226

The aim of text was a presentation of brief non-mathematical basic features of individual decision-making models in contemporary economics theories. The text described models are divided into two groups: the first one is "reflection models", the second one "comparison models".

Consultations

Politická ekonomie Davida Ricarda II

Political economy of David Ricardo II

Robert Holman

Politická ekonomie 1998, 46(2) | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.227

The text is continuation of article published in Politická ekonomie 1998, č.1. It is focusing on foreign trade, effective demand and employment, monetary theory.

Teoretické aspekty analýzy verejných statkov a niektoré implikácie pre hospodársku politiku

Theoretical aspects of public goods analysis and some implications for economic policy

Anetta Čaplánová, Marta Orviská

Politická ekonomie 1998, 46(2) | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.228

The introduction of paper describes aspects of public goods. The next parts are dedicated to a derivation of an optimal level in providing of pure public goods, free riders problem and universal merit goods. The conclusion focuses some specific aspect of mixed goods and implication for economic policy.