Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Eva Tošovská
Title: Foreign Trade in Environmental Goods in the Czech Republic (1993 - 2002)
Abstract: This paper analyses the trade flows and tariff rates of environmental goods in the Czech Republic in the period 1993 - 2002. The analysis is based on environmental goods' categories according to "OECD list of environmental goods". The export and import of environmental goods is investigated also from the foreign trade territorial structure point of view. The five indicators have been used to describe the achieved level of trade liberalization in environmental goods in the Czech Republic.
Keywords: environmental goods, imports of environmental goods, exports of environmental goods, environmental goods customs tariffs
Classification-JEL: F13, L60
Pages: 291-309
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Jiří Večerník
Title: Social Policies and Structures Under Transition: Cohesion and Tensions
Abstract: The article tries to demonstrate important links between social structure and social policies. The post-communist state interferes more than other governments into social structure and supports strong actors. This hinders expansion of the main actor of a successful transition - the middle class. Its stagnation or adverse development causes that the social structure (disintegrated, polarized and unstable) implicitly becomes the main social problem itself which generates other "minor" problems. The middle-class perspective frames many tensions and there can be exhibited four of them: between pensioners and economically active; between working and non-working poor; between the middle class and other groups and between the entrepreneurial and white-collar middle class. Social cohesion cannot be reached by redistribution only. Redistribution must remain within restricted limits in order not to hinder social change by distorting individual motivation and personal effort. The delineation of such limits should also involve consideration of the social structure.
Keywords: transition, Czech Republic, social policy, social structure
Classification-JEL: H5, I3, P26
Pages: 310-322
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Markéta Šumpíková
Author-Name: Jana Krbová
Author-Name: Jan Pavel
Author-Name: Juraj Nemec
Title: Selected Problems of Public Expenditure Programmes on Regional Level in the Czech Republic
Abstract: Efficiency, economy and effectiveness: outcomes and impacts of public expenditures are main issue especially from mid eighties, when massive changes in the public sector started, influencing both allocative and X-efficiency of public expenditures. Public expenditure programmes are implemented on many levels, from international to municipal, and in many different forms. In our paper, we decided to perform the analysis on the level of self-governing regions in the Czech Republic. We focus on the following dimensions of expenditure analysis: the scope and scale of allocative and regulatory public expenditure programmes in the region (from EU level programmes to regional); existing approaches used to analyse effectiveness of selected public expenditure programmes; impacts of public expenditure programmes on selected recipients (including capacity of recipients to apply for public resources - capacity to prepare projects to compete for public funds).
Keywords: Czech Republic, public expenditure programme, self-governing regions, effectiveness
Classification-JEL: H50, H72, R58
Pages: 323-338
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Yu Hsing
Title: Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies on Output in the Czech Republic: An Application of Romer's IS-MP-IA Model
Abstract: Extending Romer's IS-MP-IA model to include foreign trade and exchange rates and applying the GARCH method, the study came to the conclusion that real gross domestic product is negatively associated with the inflation rate, exchange rate depreciation, and the foreign interest rate and positively affected by government deficit spending and world output. Therefore, inflation targeting is an appropriate monetary policy, and the depreciation of the koruna would be harmful to the Czech economy even though it would help the export sector.
Keywords: inflation targeting, GARCH, IS-MP-IA model, exchange rates, deficit spending
Classification-JEL: E5, E6, F4
Pages: 339-345
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Mark J. Holmes
Title: Current Account Deficits in the Transition Economies
Abstract: This study tests for the stationarity and sustainability of current account deficits for ten transition economies. For this purpose, a new test is employed that allows one to test for unit roots in heterogeneous panel datasets. While the benefits from creating a panel to overcome low test power are well known, this test also offers key advantages over existing alternative panel data unit root tests: it is able to identify which members within the panel are responsible for rejecting the null hypothesis of joint non-stationarity. In addition, the SURADF test does not presume disturbances that are independently and identically distributed. Using data covering 1993 - 2001, this study finds strong evidence in favour of current account mean-reversion for six countries. Of the six countries in the sample that joined the European Union in May 2004, non-stationarity was confirmed in the case of Lithuania only.
Keywords: transition economies, panel data, current account, unit root
Classification-JEL: F3, F4, O0
Pages: 347-358
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Jiří Řezník
Title: Development of Czech Economic Theory from the Aspect of Discussions in the Politická Ekonomie Journal (1953 - 1989)
Abstract: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of establishment of the Politická ekonomie economic periodical six articles were published in 2003 reviewing the history, rise and fall of this journal in 1953 - 1989. This review presents to foreign readers a brief outline of economic thinking in this country in the period concerned that was reflected in articles published by Czech and Slovak economists in Politická ekonomie.
Keywords: history of economic thought, history of journal
Classification-JEL: A11, B20
Pages: 359-375
Volume: 2004
Issue: 4
Year: 2004
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