This article provides a summary of the refining industry development in the Czech Republic. It attempts to estimate tariffs charged by national transport company MERO and compare them with tariffs charged by other East European transit countries. National energy security in the matter of crude...

In most industrialized countries, renewable energy is supported by policy schemes burden of which is distributed among taxpayers and energy consumers. Renewable sources of energy face a major problem because of their intermittency and that has not been adequately reflected in the discussions of...

Príspevok sa zaoberá energetickou politikou EÚ, jej dokumentmi a energetickým mixom tohto spoločenstva. Globálny dopyt po energiách narastá veľmi rýchlo. Ceny ropy ostávajú neustále na vysokých úrovniach a s výnimkou Arktídy sa neočakávajú objavy nových nálezísk pre...

If taxes are the same across countries and no tariffs are imposed on international trade, the optimal strategy of a multinational firm is to set transfer prices at marginal costs of its affiliated firms. But in reality we observe trade tariffs and tax differences among countries which lead...

The aim of the article is to investigate if there exists a systematic link between size of the firm, market concentration and R&D activity of firms. Three tentative results emerged from the regression analysis based on the firm balanced panel data 1998-2006. First it follows from a regression...