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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

Evaluation of the Efficiency of Public Support for Cluster Organizations in the Czech Republic

Miroslav Žižka, Vladimíra Hovorková Valentová, Natalie Pelloneová, Eva Štichhauerová
The research presented in the paper aims to find out whether the public support (subsidies) received by cluster organizations for their development and activities is efficient. That means whether the state receives a return on investment in the form of increased revenues to public budgets. The research was conducted on a sample of seven cluster...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

The Right of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to Positive Discrimination in Free Market Competition

Branko Korže
The author justifies the right of business entities to free economic initiative on the basis of the human right (hereinafter ‘HR’ or ‘HRs’) to liberty, and the right to positive discrimination of small and medium-sized enterprises (hereinafter ‘SMEs’) on the HR to equality, which is in the legal sense implemented by the HR to equal protection. Such...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

Entrepreneurial Intention in the Visegrad Countries

Andrea S. Gubik, Szilveszter Farkas
In order to boost students’ entrepreneurial activities, it is essential to identify the factors that form entrepreneurial intentions and to investigate how the development of these factors can be influenced. This paper attempts to explore the main drivers of entrepreneurial intentions and to examine national differences in students’...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

Pitfalls of DSGE Model Approach in Monetary Union

Zlatica Konôpková
This paper investigates the impact of country size on the DSEG model estimation of the monetary union. Following DSGE model for fiscal policy simulations (FiMod) the union is considered to have a two-country structure, the investigated country has weight in union equal to its population share and the second country represents the rest of members...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

Loan to Value Ratio and Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Vlastimil Reichel, Daniel Němec, Jakub Chalmovianský
Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) with the housing sector, this paper evaluates the impact of housing collateral on the business cycle in the Czech economy. We devote special attention to the setting of the loan to value (LTV) ratio, which we believe plays an important role as a regulator of the monetary transmission...
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