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Volume 6 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

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Volume 6 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

Slovenian Complementary Health Insurance Reform – Dichotomy between the Internal Market and the Social Dimension

Bruno Nikolić
Complementary health insurance is divided between the internal market (market principles) and social dimension, wherein the state has an extremely difficult task, as it must create the conditions necessary for the fair and efficient functioning of the health care financing system. Slovenia has failed to successfully accomplish this task, which...
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Volume 6 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

The Relationship between Property Rights and Economic Growth: an Analysis of OECD and EU Countries

Ceyhun Haydaroğlu
In recent years, institutions and institutional structure have become some of the most popular concepts analyzed by economics theory. New growth theories have especially focused on the effects of institutions and institutional structure on a macro level. Property rights are one of the most important elements of this institutional structure. The...
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Volume 6 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

Do Auctions Improve Public Procurement? Evidence from the Czech Republic

Michal Kvasnička, Rostislav Staněk, Ondřej Krčál
This paper explores the effect of various contract-awarding procedures in public procurement on the price of the contract. We provide a theoretical model that compares prices in different procedures and tests whether there is a significant price difference between the procedures using data from Czech public procurement. The model predicts that...
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Volume 6 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

Contractual Penalty and the Right to Payment for Delays Caused by Force Majeure in Czech Civil Law under the New Civil Code

Martin Janku
In the context of the conclusion of contracts between entrepreneurs under the Czech Civil Code, it is a relatively common arrangement that the parties disclaim any and all liability for damage arising from non-compliance with contractual obligations, if they can prove that this failure was due to an obstacle independent of their will. This...
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