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Volume 9 (2018): Issue 4 (December 2018)

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Volume 9 (2018): Issue 4 (December 2018)

Homo Economicus in the Shortage Economy

Hana Lipovská, Lucie Coufalová, Libor Žídek
Rational agents react to incentives in the market economy as well as in the centrally planned economy. Economic laws are persistent regardless of the economic system. The legislative system changes the outcome of the game between economic agents and managers. The aim of this paper is to show how rational agents reacted to legislative incentives in...
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Volume 9 (2018): Issue 4 (December 2018)

Potentials of Administrative Procedures as a Participatory Tool within Governance Models in Central and Eastern Europe

Polonca Kovac
Good public governance requires participative networking to tackle the worst societal problems. Redefined administrative procedure as an instrument that should ensure efficient public policies is one of the key approaches in this respect. The objective of this article is to show, based on qualitative research methods, that in modern public...
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Volume 9 (2018): Issue 4 (December 2018)

Global Competitiveness of Europe: A Robust Assessment

Elena Fifeková, Eduard Nežinský, Edita Nemcová
National (global) competitiveness became the central issue during the global crisis. Using the values of the three main subdimensions of the Global Competitiveness Index, we propose alternative DEA-based competitiveness indicators. In our approach, the index is nested in the more general measure of the competitiveness-given-performance indicator...
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Volume 9 (2018): Issue 4 (December 2018)

Preliminary Ruling of the ECJ and the Akcenta Case

Katarína Kalesná
The article analyses the significance of the ECJ preliminary ruling on competition law. Starting with the general characteristic of the preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice, its legal regulation in TFEU and its effects, it focuses on the concrete judgement of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 7 February 2013 in Case C-68/12 at the request of the...
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