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Author-Name: Jitka Bartošová
Author-Name: Vladislav Bína
Title: Modelling of Income Distribution of Czech Households in The Years 1996-2005
Abstract: After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the transformation to a market economic system, and mainly the formation of new income sources and the process of a significant differentiation in wages, has caused crucial changes to the income distribution. There have been systematic changes in the model parameters as well as changes manifesting the increasing numbers of discrepancies between empirical and theoretical income distributions: these have caused a contamination of the model. This paper concentrates on the verification of the validity of the statistical model of income distribution used in the Czech Republic at present. In order to consider as precisely as possible the suitability of log-normal distribution as the proper model for income distribution used in the Czech Republic, the optimisation of parameters is necessary. The accuracy of the model construction is crucial and is given, to some extent, by the sensitivity and adaptability of procedures used for estimation of the model parameters. The paper shows methods usable for the achievement of this goal and presents results obtained by their application on data files from the years 1996-2005.
Keywords: probability model, Income distribution;, Iterative procedure;
Classification-JEL: G30
Pages: 3-18
Volume: 2009
Issue: 4
Year: 2009
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Marek Jemala
Title: Strategic Business Alliances: Qualitative Analysis of Specific Factors of Business Clusters
Abstract: Global corporations and companies with international portfolios increasingly concentrate their activities not only on the international expansion of their products or services and global diversifi cation of their capital portfolios, but also on an effective integration in the global value chain in all areas of their activities. This article focuses on the specific analysis of strategic business alliances, which are built on the principles of cluster organization in order to obtain higher synergic effects. This analysis is based on the intensive literature review and several case studies of an organization of different clusters with various specialisations in different areas. The main objective of the analysis is to determine clearly the characterisation and taxonomy of clusters, specific reasons for establishing/running a cluster, and the main advantages and risks of these structures in the global business environment.
Keywords: Strategic business alliances,, Clusters,, Global production chain,, Innovation process
Classification-JEL: F01,, G34, O31,, O32,
Pages: 19-33
Volume: 2009
Issue: 4
Year: 2009
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Zuzana Křečková Kroupová
Title: The Role of Women in International Business World and in the Czech Republic
Abstract: This article describes the presence of women in the top corporate positions in the developed countries of Europe, U.S.A. and the Czech republic. The article compares the women representation with the cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede. The author also describes the situation in the Czech republic, naming companies with the most favorable programs of equal opportunities.
Keywords: management, leadership, culture, organization, women managers
Classification-JEL: M12
Pages: 34-41
Volume: 2009
Issue: 4
Year: 2009
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Author-Name: Shirley Consuelo Banús Vidal
Title: Impact of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act in Bolivia: Analysis of the Current Status
Abstract: Bolivian exports to the United States (US) market in 2005, without counting natural gas, constituted 22 % of the total exports, making this country the main destination market especially for the manufactured goods that Bolivia offers. The increased importance of the US market for Bolivia lies in the fact that it (the US market) represents a different profi le of specialization, since the domestic Bolivian exports to the US market, in contrast to those that are made to the rest of the world, show a relatively high proportion of manufactured goods. Bolivia sends 55 % of these goods with high value incorporated, as opposed to raw materials, which is a typical export for Bolivia. The trade relations between Bolivia and the US have been fundamental especially at the level of preferential treatment. This means tariff exemptions that only apply to specific countries. This tariff preference of the US to developing countries adopted a subregional  approach, as in the case of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA). This act came into effect in December 1991 and was extended to August 2002, not only in the coverage of products, but it was linked with the fi ght against drugs through the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), whose effect has been extended several times and which is currently at risk of concluding  definitely.  In this context, this paper takes an eminently commercial approach; both the situation and the prospects of the ATPDEA are analysed from the point of view of its impact on Bolivian exports, major companies, regions and exported products, as well as the ATPDEA's effects on employment.
Keywords: ATPDEA,, Analysis of the current status,, Bolivia,, US
Classification-JEL: F14,, F15
Pages: 42-61
Volume: 2009
Issue: 4
Year: 2009
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Author-Name: Antonie Doležalová
Title: What to Do? Impact of the Nazi and the Soviet Control Models on the Post-War Restoration of the Future "Communist" Czechoslovakia
Abstract: The study deals with the question of how much the post-war development of Czechoslovakia was affected by the Nazi central control model and the theory of Marxism-Leninism. The study searches for an answer through analysis of two questions: Could a different economic concept have been applied at all? Was the theory of Marxism-Leninism internally consistent and was it strong enough to solve the post-war restoration tasks? The author reaches her conclusion that Czechoslovakia´s transfer to socialism was not based on the Marxist theory as a peculiar economic theory offering a new control concept, but, contrary to that, she believes that the key circumstance of the transfer was the economy with central and mandatory control applied during the Nazi occupation. As a result of that type of economy, a highly concentrated capital was transferred to the government´s hands as a nationalized industry at the end of the war.
Keywords: planning, Czechoslovakia 1938-1948, central control, Marxism-Leninism
Classification-JEL: B14, B2, N14, N44, O21
Pages: 62-83
Volume: 2009
Issue: 4
Year: 2009
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