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Expected Level of State, Entrepreneurship and Individual Responsibility for Improving Quality of Life

Author(s): Peter Madzík,Milan Droppa,Alena Daňková,Adriana Grigerová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: quality of life; state responsibility; entrepreneurship responsibility; individual responsibility; Kano model;

This article presents an approach to the analysis of selected attributes of quality of life [QoL), based on the Kano model. The aim of the article is to empirically examine the importance of these attributes for an individual. A group of 17 most mentioned and systematically measured attributes of quality of life were defined by literature review and data from international databases. The importance of these attributes and their impact on the satisfaction of individuals were subsequently examined using the Kano model methodology [which is based on questionnaires) and supporting statistical tools. The results were then interpreted and generalized by categorizing particular attributes into three main categories: Must-be, One-dimensional and Attractive.

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Can Demographic Characteristics Explain Intermunicipal Differences in Production of Municipal Waste?

Author(s): KRISTÝNA RYBOVÁ,Jan Slavík / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: municipal solid waste; demographic change; influencing factors; regression;

Ongoing demographic changes have been influencing many aspects of society and its functioning, infrastructure including waste management is not any exception. This paper aims at quantifying how demographic variables influence the municipal waste generation in the Czech Republic. For this purpose similar variables as in studies from abroad are constructed and reviewed methods are applied on the data for municipalities from the Czech Republic in year 2011. 8 indicators for 5 887 municipalities were investigated. For the analysis correlation and multidimensional linear regression were used.

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Atmospherics Measurement: The Ways to Make Public Goods Available

Author(s): Ekaterina Shishova,Ksenia Kuzmina / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: atmospherics; visitor experience; cultural heritage; museum; public sector;

The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of atmospherics to the public sector research. Since museums as cultural institutions preserve the cultural heritage and take care of socially and culturally significant public goods, they should also guarantee the accessibility to cultural objects for different social groups and provide them sufficient information about preserved cultural objects. Although museums nowadays find themselves in the situation of governmental funding reduction, their main objectives along with preservation of cultural objects, security issues, and accessibility should be focused on development of such museum services as structured itineraries, saturated with information maps, improvement of public service areas in park and museum complexes.

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Free Public Transport: The City of Žilina

Author(s): Matúš Sloboda / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: public transport; fare free; Slovakia; Tallinn;

Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, is shining example of innovative and progressive city. Especially in one particular policy - free public transport. Fare free public transport became very articulated policy just before local election 2014 in several Slovak cities. Many politicians, inspired by Tallinn, had free public transport policy as the major point of their political agenda. This article is devoted to free public transport policy in Slovak city Žilina. It analyses presentation of the policy in the city and perception of the policy by the politicians who advocate proposal and implantation plan.

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Intermunicipal Cooperation and Local Cost Efficiency: The Case of Waste Management Services in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Jana Soukopová,Daniel Klimovský / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: municipalities; waste management; intermunicipal cooperation; efficiency; the Czech Republic;

The analysis presented here follows the theme of intermunicipal cooperation and constitutes a systematic test of impact of intermunicipal cooperation in the Czech Republic. Our empirical analysis used linked open data and data from the survey of Czech municipalities to examine the dynamics of intermunicipal cooperation in the market of solid waste, which is one of the most relevant local services.

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Implementation of Quality Principles for Public Services Providing

Author(s): Stanislava ŠIMONOVÁ,Jakub Novák / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: public administration; public services; quality management; quality principles;

Increasing the quality of production belongs to management goals of every company, be it quality of products or services. Higher quality of production is reflected in e.g. obtaining competitive advantage on the market or as effective area administration, returning customer or a citizen satisfied with public administration services etc. Management therefore strives for higher quality and resulting financial as well as non-financial profitability. The request for quality improvement is a part of defined standards, complex methods and tools for quality management.

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The Association between Land Take by New Development and Land Fertility: Are Environmental Charges Effective?

Author(s): Eliška Vejchodská / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: land take; land fertility; environmental charges;

One of the negative effects of sprawl is land take by new development and interconnected decrease of available agricultural land, eventually forest land. An even more serious problem is the loss of precious agricultural land with high level of fertility. The aim of the paper is to assess, if the charge for the conversion of agricultural land has a statistically observable impact on the decision-making of investors in terms of the location of new development according to its agricultural potential.

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Development of Number of Physicians and Beds in Basic Medical Branches of Acute Bed Care in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Iveta Vrabková,Ivana Vaňková / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: acute bed care; basic medical branches; free disposal hull model; correlation coefficient;

The paper compares the state of the technical efficiency of acute bed care in basic medical branches - the internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology and paediatrics for 2003 and 2013 by individual regions of the Czech Republic. The development of the technical efficiency is tested by means of the input-oriented Free Disposal Hull model (FDH). Three models were tested (M(2003), M(2013), M(hypothetical)) and they are based on the same input and output variables. There were chosen two input variables, namely the number of beds and number of physicians. The output variable was the number of hospitalized patients in basic medical branches in the regions of the Czech Republic.

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Blank Spots in Social Business Activities. Case Study at the Local Level

Author(s): Mirka Wildmannova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: social economy; social entrepreneurship; grant policy; public administration; disadvantaged people;

Social entrepreneurship is characterised by a high degree of creativity and innovation, not only in technical terms but also in relation to management-social aspects. Social entrepreneurship is a relatively young sector which is not legally addressed in the Czech Republic. Its development dates back to the 19th century but its main development comes in the second half of the 20th century. The objective of this paper is to assess the current issues faced by social businesses - at the local level- in the city of Brno. The main research question is to identify blank spots in social entrepreneurship. To assess the specific problems of the social entrepreneurship, the method of qualitative survey in selected social businesses has been selected. At the same time, we have carried out an analysis of the cooperation between public administration and social businesses in selected cities.

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Patent Activity Analysis of Czech Universities at the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic

Author(s): Petr Zdřálek,RŮŽENA ŠTEMBERKOVÁ,Pavla MATULOVÁ,Petra MAREŠOVÁ,Kamil Kuča / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: university patents; patenting activity analysis; leading technology overview; impact of patents; significant patent information;

Universities contribute to economic growth not only through teaching and research, but through engagement and collaborations with industry and other off campus entities. One way of measuring the economic effects of these activities is to examine patent data. Recent years have seen an increased use of patent metrics to evaluate innovation and research performance. Patent documents and patent data generally have several advantages as technology indicator, whereas they are accessible in electronic formats. These data provide details of inventions resulting from university research and collaboration. Sophisticated analysis enables us to examine these documents and track technological knowledge.

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Evaluation of Investment Activity in the SR through the Development of Gross Fixed Capital Formation

Author(s): Katarína Belanová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: gross fixed capital formation; economic growth; gross domestic product;

Economic growth is a fundamental objective of economic policy of every developed market economy. Investments are the main source of it. That is why it is important to observe the development of investments, their structure and share on GDP. The aim of the article is to analyze the development of gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), to compare its level with EU - 28, as well as to present interdependence between GDP and GFCF. As statistical data reveal, the values of GFCF have increased from 2010, what indicates economic recovery.

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Profitability versus Debt in Hospital Industry

Author(s): Agnieszka Bem,Paweł Prędkiewicz,Paulina Ucieklak-Jeż,Rafal Siedlecki / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: hospital; profitability; debt; financial management;

The paper examines the relationship between profitability of hospitals and their debt ratios. The main objective is to investigate, whether hospitals use debt as a source of funding, in the absence of sufficient profits from operating activities. Using statistical methods, we have proved a negative relationship between the profitability measured on many levels (ROA, EBIT margin, EBITDA margin) and hospitals' total debt ratio. On the other hand, we have found a positive relationship between the debt and profitability, taking into account only short-term and long-term loans and credit.

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Natural Disasters and their Impact on Long-term Growth

Author(s): Karina Benetti / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: catastrophic risk; economic growth; natural disaster;

Article deals by using empirical analysis with evaluation of the long-run relationship among the realization of natural disasters and with economic growth in selected countries. According to the research results Skidmore & Toya (2002) there is a correlation between higher frequency of natural disasters and higher rate of accumulation of human capital, which ultimately leads to the increase in total factor productivity and therefore economic growth, but mostly only in the long term.

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Global Economy, Monetary Policies and their Impact on Financial Markets

Author(s): Miroslav KMEŤKO,Miloš Bikár / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: monetary policy; quantitative easing; market volatility; currency movements; asset reallocation; institutional investors;

The Global Economic and Financial Crisis led central banks in advanced economies to adopt a variety of standard and non-standard measures to ease monetary conditions. In the US, the UK, and Japan the centerpiece of these non-standard measures has been large-scale purchases of financial assets, also known as quantitative easing (QE). Purchases of financial assets financed by central bank money increase liquidity and push up asset prices, as those who have sold assets to the central bank rebalance their portfolios into riskier assets.

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The Effect of a New Lease Reporting in Transport Companies

Author(s): Hana Bohušová,Alžběta Srnova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: lessee; capitalization; Re-exposure draft;

Current differences between the accounting treatments for a financial and an operating lease force users of the financial statements to capitalize individually the operating lease. The Re - exposure draft of the new standard Lease should eliminate the problems of the current reporting principles. As a result of the application of the new standard, it is expected that more leases will be activated on the balance sheet on the lessees' side. It is probable that the most significant impact will be observable in the case of companies where operating leases are major sources of financing (e.g. transport companies, airlines).

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Fees or Taxes - The Hamlet Question for the Czech Municipality

Author(s): Pavlina Brabcová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: tax; fee; local coefficient; fee for the municipal waste; vote; industry;

This paper is focused on the analysis of the basic patterns of the municipal revenue in the Czech Republic, especially the trade-off between the tax and fee financing. Data reveals that the Czech municipalities often introduced local coefficient of 2 which doubled the basic property tax revenue. This is the mean value applied for more than one half of the surveyed units. Local fee is often introduced at the level of 500 CZK per capita. It seems that the municipality rather prefers such values, which are used by the vast majority of municipalities.

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Economic and Demographic Determinants of Life Insurance Industry Development

Author(s): Zuzana Brokešova,Tomáš Ondruška,Erika Pastoráková / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: life insurance industry; industry development; economic determinants; demographic determinants;

countries. In European area, the majority of life insurance business is concentrated in the West European countries, where life insurance has a long tradition in the population. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries are significantly behind in this area, what is documented by the level of their life insurance density and penetration. However, during the last few decades, we have observed extensive growth in these markets. In addition, CEE countries also overcome dynamic changes in economy and demography, during this period.

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Comparative Study: The Financial Literacy of Students of Economics and Finance versus Students of Law

Author(s): Barbora Chmelíková,Martin Svoboda / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: financial literacy; university students; financial education;

The objective of this article is to analyze results of the comparative study related to the financial literacy conducted among the students of the Faculty of Economic and Administration and the students of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University. The empirical survey was focused on the examination of the financial literacy in terms of personal budgeting, numerical literacy, price literacy, payment methods, how to search for relevant information, breach of a contract and its consequences, indebtedness, right and obligation of consumers in the financial markets.

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Management of Insurance Mediation for Small and Medium Enterprises

Author(s): Viktória Čejková,Michal Fabuš / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: insurance; premium; insuring; commercial insurance company; insurance mediation; insurance intermediary; risks; small and medium enterprises; insurance products;

The aim is to characterise the risks of SMEs and recommending insurance mediation through experts, i.e. insurance intermediaries of commercial insurance companies. Furthermore this paper deals with insurance, insurance brokerage and selected risks of insurance risk by SMEs. Specifically on premium insurance products for SMEs their characteristics and evolution. This paper also presents current issues and trends in risk insurance intermediation for SMEs in Slovakia.

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European Evidence on the Long-Run Superneutrality of Money

Author(s): Oleg Deev,Martin Hodula / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: money superneutrality; SVAR;

This paper investigates the validity of the money superneutrality concept for the sample of 30 European economies. Using a structural vector autoregressive framework, we examine the long-run response of real output to a permanent inflation shock for each country. We find that for the majority of countries in our sample the long- run superneutrality concept is confirmed as the original increase/decrease in output growth fades in time. We also fail to proof the additional hypothesis that the exception to superneutrality validity is a group of countries with smaller in-sample inflation mean.

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