Politická ekonomie, 2006 (vol. 54), issue 5
Institucionální aspekty nové komparativní ekonomie: ČR a EU
Institutional aspects of new comparative economy: Czech republic and European union
Milan Žák, Petr Vymětal
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):583-609 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.574 
The study focuses on evaluation of institutional quality in European Union countries and its possible impact on economic performance and competitiveness. The text stems from the theoretical framework of new institutional economics, especially historical and comparative institutionalism, and it bases on the concept of good governance. The source of the evaluation is the scheme of the World Bank Governance Matters, supplemented with research of other institutions working with individual institutional characteristics. Authors evaluate following characteristics - voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality,...
Politická ekonómia slovenského kapitalizmu: inštitucionálna a evolučná perspektíva
Political economy of the slovak capitalism from perspective of the institutional and evolutionary economics
Vladimír Baláž
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):610-631 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.575
The introductory parts of the paper analyse development of a local variety of capitalism in Slovakia from the institutional and evolutionary perspective. In early transition period privatisation policies were aimed at development of a liberal version of capitalism, based on fluid capital markets. These policies were confronted with institutional legacies of previous regimes. Privatisation, however, had major impact on structure of capital ownership and management. Next chapters compare contemporary Slovak capitalism with varieties found in other OECD economies. Major elements of institutional framework (labour market, business and financial environments)...
Ekonomické souvislosti revitalizace brownfields
Economic context of brownfields revitalization
Petra Rydvalová, Miroslav Žižka
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):632-645 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.576
Brownfields are old, unused sites and buildings located in urban areas and open countryside. This article deals with problems of brownfields that developed as a result of restructuring national industry, a decreased significance of primary and secondary industry, and the increase of tertiary industry. The main part of the article provides a complex evaluation of the costs and benefits connected with brownfields regeneration in comparison with building on greenfields. The presented model evaluates both alternatives from the municipality, investor and public interest points of view. In a conclusion, there is given a recommended procedure for brownfields...
Diskriminace žen v ekonomické teorii vybrané problémy
The economics of sex discrimination
Dagmar Brožová
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):646-660 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.577
Paper outlines economic connections of labor market discrimination. It is intended on discrimination based upon gender, because this type of discrimination is on the point of our social background. In the introductory part are defined discrimination and delineated the various types of discrimination. Further there are presented data to suggest the possibility of discrimination. The major part of paper presents four important labor market models of discrimination: taste for discrimination model, monopsony model of discrimination (market power model), statistical discrimination model and the crowding model of discrimination (occupational segregation)....
Národní nebo individuální zájem: případ prvorepublikového Československa
National or individual interest: the case of the first- republic Czechoslovakia
Antonie Doležalová
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):661-678 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.578
The key question of the presented thesis is what precisely economic nationalism means. The author uses the situation in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars as a background of her examination of both its dimensions, economic and nationalistic. She points out several problems arising from the use of the term. She also answers the question to what extent economic nationalism is economic and to what extent it is national. Following her empiric study of the effects of nationalism on economic relations, the author redefines the existing conception and suggests that emphasis be put on the terms economic emancipation and above all national economism....
Teória transakčných nákladov a jej vplyv na stratégie nadnárodných spoločností
Transaction costs theory and its impact on strategies of multinational enterprises
Dagmar Lesáková
Politická ekonomie 2006, 54(5):679-690 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.579
The theory of internalization currently seems to be generally accepted as a possible explanation of multinational enterprise. The issue of the theory is that a multinational enterprise has developed a firm-specific advantage in its home market, usually in the form of intangible assets, giving the firm some superior production, product, marketing or management knowledge. If these assets are not exploited through market or contractual transactions, an "internal" market has to be created. Expansions outside the firm's domestic market will then take form of horizontal and vertical integration. The firm either establishes or buys manufacturing plants outside...