The goal of the present study is to examine the sustainability of banks' efficiency in the EU27 member states in the period from 2005 to 2008 after the last enlargement of the EU and to test for eventual association with economic performance. We were interested in the differences of the banks'...

The paper assesses characteristics of labour taxation, employment and unemployment rate in the OECD and in the EU Member States and analyses relationship between tax wedge and labour market outcomes, i.e., employment and unemployment rate. The empirical analysis shows that the non-EU OECD...

This paper tackles the question of fiscal sustainability in current times of fiscal and economic crisis. We analyse how much space do fiscal policies have in EU member states for battling the crisis under the assumption that they want to remain fiscally sustainable. We use a derivative from...

Th is paper aims to analyze the residual income of the Slovenian and Croatian hotel industry for the period covering 2005–2008. Th e residual income not only looks at return on invested funds, but also implicitly compares it with the risk adjusted opportunity cost of such an investment. Th is...

The purpose of the paper is to assess the equity value of Slovenian publicly traded companies, before and after financial-economic crises, on the basis of discounted free cash flows to equity and to compare it with market equity values of companies. The fundamental equity value of the selected...

In this study we were interested in the residual income of selected Slovene companies. This parameter of company’s efficiency not only looks at return on invested funds, but also implicitly compares it with risk adjusted opportunity cost of such investment. It is therefore argued that this...

The purpose of the paper is to present the theoretical and empirical analysis of the causal relationship between company’s investment and profits. Following the previous research findings that are not unanimous, we examined the causal relation between profits and investment both at the...

In this study we were interested in the residual income of selected Slovene companies. This parameter of company’s efficiency not only looks at return on invested funds, but also implicitly compares it with risk adjusted opportunity cost of such investment. It is therefore argued that this...