Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2015 (vol. 23), issue 1

Competitiveness of the Czech Republic - Sustainability and the Social Aspect of Competitiveness

Eliška Kačírková

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):3-26 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.462  

The objective of the study is to analyse the Czech position in the field of global competitiveness. In the past, the only data used for evaluating the position of a country were "hard data": data that were measurable. Nowadays, many research institutions as well as scientists have come with a new idea. Not only hard data are important for a country's position in the competitiveness rank, but also soft data have to be taken into account. The General Competitiveness Index (GCI), used for measuring competitiveness, has been replaced with the Sustainability-adjusted Competitiveness Index (SCI). Two sustainability pillars are added to the general competitiveness:...

How Are Technologies Patented in Developed and Developing Countries of EU?

Marek Jemala, Ľubomír Jemala

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):27-44 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.463  

In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but increasingly important there have become the micro and macro environment of the institution/company. Since, many times, technology innovation requires cooperation within the business microenvironment and supportive legal, political, economic, social or environmental factors. As analogies in Japan, USA, India, or China, also the European Community has to respond adequately to this trend through supportive legislation, management, infrastructure and cooperation. The key research question of this analysis is, how big is the difference in technological...

The Impact of Institutional Environment on Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment in European Transition Economies and Latin American Countries

Michal Mádr, Luděk Kouba

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):45-60 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.464  

The main objective of the paper is to identify and quantify the influence of institutional environment on inflows of foreign direct investment in European post-socialist countries and countries of Latin America. The reference period is the period 1996-2012 due to data availability. The World Bank Governance Matters concept is used as the basic indicator of institutional environment. Panel data regression analysis is used for the identification and quantification purposes. According to the results, the influence of institutional environment on FDI is not entirely unequivocal in the European transition economies, but it is statistically significant in...

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Richard Cantillon

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):61-68 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.465  

R. Cantillon was an irish merchant and banker whose birth, youth, financila activities and even death are secret. We know that he operated in France. Nowadays there has preserved the only his book, but this is often considered to be the first trully systematic economic treatise. Cantillon contributed to many economic topics and in many of them he was the first author.

Expert work on accounting with new scientific procedures

Monika Randáková

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):69-71 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.466