Author is trying to find parallels between philosophers I. Kant and J. P. Sartre. The latter used Kant´s categorical imperative in significantly different way. According to Sartre, we are not only "sentenced to freedom", but every our act is human act and means a "message" to all human beings....

Author is trying to find parallels between philosophers I. Kant and J. P. Sartre. The latter used Kant´s categorical imperative in significantly different way. According to Sartre, we are not only "sentenced to freedom", but every our act is human act and means a "message" to all human beings....

The paper focuses on selective investment incentives. The main aim is to discuss question how to quantify net fiscal impact properly. As shown, the problem is not trivial - the proper quantification presupposes using of several parameters, accounting of costs in the economic sense of this word...

The primary aim of the paper is an analysis of the relationships between growth, innovation and subsidies based on a large firm-level data set in the period 2004-2007. The novelty of the approach lies in linking data from financial statements with data from innovation surveys of the Czech...

The aim of the article is to describe theoretical concepts related to the effects of state subsidies on enterprises and to discuss the magnitude and effect of state aid on enterprises during the transformation of the Czech economy. Subsidies to enterprises during transformation were high, often...

This paper attempts to contribute to the analysis of links between state aid and competitiveness of manufacturing industries during 1998-2002. Statistical source on subsidies include all subsidies to capital gathered on enterprise level by Czech Statistical Office. The enterprise data have been...

This study provides information on trends and role of the Czech outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and evaluates the effects of the OFDI on parent companies. The analysis of trends is based on Czech National Bank data; the effects are evaluated through a unique set of data gathered through...

The paper investigates both the impact of domestic and import competition on performance of manufacturing industries in the Czech Republic in 1998 - 2002. Using panel data we found a strong increasing non-linear (diminishing) relationship between performance of manufacturing industries and...

The study focuses on patterns and trends in concentration in the Czech manufacturing during the period 1989 - 1997. In the 90s Czech manufacturing experienced rapid and deep change in the market structures. Most of manufacturing markets de-concentrated between 1989 - 1995. Rapid change occurred...