Volume 11 (2020): Issue 3 (September 2020)
Cutting Red Tape – Legal and Institutional Tools to Promote SMEs
The pursuit of global competitiveness requires a complex system of measures that enable the promotion of business. Yet this goal is strongly hindered by interdisciplinary (legal, economic, managerial, IT) red tape programs in both national and supranational frameworks. The aim of the paper is to enhance the understanding of red tape by identifying...
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Volume 11 (2020): Issue 3 (September 2020)
The Comparative Analysis of Women’s Status in Labor Relations in Modern Slovakia and the Czech Republic
In this article, the authors deal with the issue of the women’s status in labor relations both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The authors examined the regulation of the position of women in labor law regulations and compared their results, trying to answer the main question – In which state is it better to work for women after the break-up of...
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Volume 11 (2020): Issue 3 (September 2020)
Effectivity of Progressive Taxation from the Micro- and Macroeconomic Perspective
Many empiric analyses on the topic of the progression exist and despite their often contradictory results governments still include their conclusions in to their tax policies. Many questions arise in relation to the issue: What is the theoretical justification of progressive taxation? What are the effects of the progression from the microeconomic...
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Volume 11 (2020): Issue 3 (September 2020)
Asian Foreign Direct Investments in the Visegrad Countries: What Are Their Motivations for Coming Indirectly?
Asian foreign direct investments are significant in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Statistics compiled by the OECD’s new balance of payments manual (BPM6) show that the FDI stock of Asian investors is significantly higher than the data on direct investors suggest, meaning that companies go through...
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Volume 11 (2020): Issue 3 (September 2020)
Volatility Modelling and VaR: The Case of Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple
Since Bitcoin introduction in 2008, the cryptocurrency market has grown into hundreds-of-billion-dollar market. The cryptocurrency market is well known as very volatile, mainly for the fact that the cryptocurrencies have not the price to fall back upon and that anybody can join the trading (no license or approval is required). Since empirical...
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