Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2015 (vol. 23), issue 2

Trends in the CZK Development and AR(I)MA Forecasting

Ota Melcher

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):3-21 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.467  

The European integration process has had severe impacts on the development of exchange rates of member states' currencies. For small and open economies which trade large part of both their production input and output in foreign currencies the real exchange rates are of a special importance. This paper looks at the drivers behind the evolution of the real exchange rate of CZK within the European integration process. Beside the decomposition of the general long term trend, several factors of exchange rate fluctuations are depicted. Furthermore the recent halt in long term trend in real CZK appreciation towards EUR is discussed. Finally the study shows...

Selected Approaches to Measurement of National Competitiveness and the Results of Visegrad Group in Years 2007-2014

Marta Nečadová

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):22-39 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.468  

The first objective of this paper is to briefly describe and compare the methodology of the two best known international rankings of competitiveness (World Competitiveness Yearbook and The Global Competitiveness Report). The method of construction of these scoreboards (proportion of hard and soft data, form of their aggregation, choice of respondents, etc.) does not make it possible to find a satisfactory answer to the question whether national competitiveness is objectively measurable. The second goal of this paper is to analyse the V4 results in these rankings. According to the GCR all the V4 are most successful in indicators called Efficiency enhancers....

Attitudes of Czechs towards Working Life

Václav Stříteský, Marek Stříteský

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):40-53 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.469  

The paper deals with consumer attitudes and perceptions of working life on the Czech labour market and analyses possibilities of the Czech labour market segmentation. The research is based on an analysis of data MML-TGI provided by Median agency. This data source is highly accepted in targeted marketing. In the first part the research focuses on the satisfaction of Czech people with their jobs and salary and identification of prevailing attitudes to work and employer loyalty. The next section identifies segments of the Czech labour market according to the perceived importance of selected aspects of working life. These segments are further characterized....

Lexical pitfalls of business German

Věra Höppnerová

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):54-66 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.470  

This study is focused on interference-related errors in economics students' written papers. These errors are caused mostly by the differently structured non-linguistic reality, which results in asymmetries of language signs. Mistakes occur particularly in polysemous words, words with different semantic ability to combine, fixed phrases, and prepositional phrases. Concerning foreign words, interference-related errors arise from their asymmetric occurrence in the mother and the target languages, and also from their different meanings in both languages. Although learning German may be facilitated by the knowledge of English, Czech students often make...

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - H. H. Gossen

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):68-76 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.471  

H. H. Gossen was a Prussian court clerk, autodidact. He for the first time detected the marginal utility principles (three Gossen principles). At the time of his life he was unacknowledged, although he is the most important predecessor of neoclasic economic thought and marginalistict revolution.