One of the key assumptions of neoclassical economics is the existence of the rational individual, who always tries to maximize his or her utility. The paper shows possibilities of experimental evaluation of this hypothesis with respect to the various groups of people who undertake the...

The paper focuses on a comparison of three different approaches that seek to explain the existence of public goods. First the mainstream Samuelson-Musgrave approach, based on the search for an objective nature of so-called pure public goods, is critically evaluated, especially with respect to...

The Czech Council for R&D developed a new version of the Methodic for the Evaluation of R&D. In this paper, we discuss especially three criteria from this Methodic: - publications in impacted journals - publications in other scientific refereed journals - evaluation of publications with more...

Almost all of us sometimes voluntarily give up some scarce resources to make someone else better. Not only the amount of resources used for such purposes, but also other wider concerns (implications for private and government sector) have drawn the attention of economists in recent decades. In...

Contemporary economic development in following global markets advancement evokes needs to look for new methods supporting all processes enabling domestic and foreign business activities. Internet and e-commerce systems exploitation is considered to be a standard here. Various modeling techniques...

This paper presents regression analyses of import and export functions in the Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998. The first part of the article summarizes the standard Keynesian income approach to the balance of payments. This traditional theory is considered alongside the theory of the monetary...

Cílem práce je odhadnout a vyšetøit dlouhodobý vztah mezi penìžní zásobou M1, cenovou hladinou, výstupem a alternativními náklady držby penìz a to, zda lze tento vztah - v pøípadì, že existuje - interpretovat ve smyslu dlouhodobé poptávky po penìzích. Práce využívá pøi...

Èlánek struènì shrnuje dosavadní pøístupy k odhadu parametrù a poèáteèních podmínek pro modely ve stavovém tvaru. Ukazuje možnosti využití jednotlivých metod, stejnì jako jejich výhody a nevýhody. Podrobnìji je zde zmiòována metoda maximální vìrohodnosti pro modely ve...

Volatility of the financial time series belongs to the crucial estimated parameters in finance (e.g. in risk management, derivative pricing). It is well known, that volatility varies in time, so that new approaches of volatility modeling have appeared. In this paper two models of the conditional...