Sylvie Kotíková

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem | UJEP

Spillover effects represent a difficult-to-measure externality resulting from the localization of foreign capital in the host economy. Despite their character of externality, spillover effects represent a public interest. The governments of many transitional economies spend financial resources in the form of investment incentives to support economi...

Although FDI flows into most post-socialist countries are based on their market transformation development, the largest volume is directed to the Visegrad countries that are generally perceived as above-average successful in attracting foreign investors. The paper analyses how does the inflow of FDI into Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia...

The size of technology gap is one determinant of indirect spillover effects from FDI. Whether and to what extent FDI inflows generate positive spillovers affecting productivity growth of host country firms depends on several factors, including the degree of FP and the position of local and foreign businesses. The FDI index we created, follows the d...

The paper describes the responses of national economics to the spread of pandemic COVID-19 in year 2020. As a result of economic and social interconnectedness and dependency of countries, the actions are mutually influential in a great extend. The economic impacts are analysed from macroeconomic perspective, demonstrating the effects on important e...

The paper analyses the economic impacts of the pandemic COVID-19 with an emphasis on FDI. The paper evaluates the attitudes of governments towards a crisis and the effects on the stages of economic cycle in the Investment Development Path theory. The important role of investment incentives and the role of investment promotion agencies to support bu...

Within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Visegrad countries are considered to be the most attractive destinations for foreign investors. This paper examines the impact of the structural distribution of FDI inflows on national productivity in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The basic research question is: how the int...

Internationalisation is an increasingly common strategy for all types of companies across sectors, especially for tourism and destination management. The paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the current setting of marketing promotion of selected economies in the global market. The cost benefit analysis method compares the costs of individual...

The paper deals with main research problem connecting with the assessment of the quality of the tourism business environment at different levels. The aim of this paper is to identify the key indicators of the business environment of tourism. Based on identified indicators evaluation of specific destination management in the medium term is set. The...

The purpose of establishing a strategic partnership between the Czech Republic and the People's Republic of China was to increase investment activity between countries. The aim of the paper is to map the main Chinese capital holders and their investment activities that were boosted by the Czech system of investment incentives. The investigation is...

This paper provides an analysis of the impacts of immigration from countries outside the European Union on domestic unemployment rates of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland based on gender and age of immigrants. Using Eurostat data from 1998 to 2014, data analysis and regression functions with constant coefficients for every analysed count...

The aim is to identify differences in spillovers between regions within the economy of the Czech Republic. Based on the choice of spillover effect determinants and a shift-share analysis, a regional spillovers indicator has been constructed. It was discovered the differences in the sizes of spillovers between the regions are increasing over time, w...

The aim of the paper is to find out how the degree of internationalization is reflected in the intensity of the foreign presence in the Czech regional business environment. The absorption capability is illustrated for six selected regions, in a series of thirteen years. The extent to which the regions can benefit from their degree of internationali...

The technology gap is one of key determinants of spillovers. This paper aims to quantify the size of the technology gap between foreign direct investments, which received investment incentives and business environment in six regions of the Czech Republic in time series of 2002-2014. The development of regional technology gap was determined by using...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate a degree of foreign presence in a region of the Czech Republic. Firstly, data from CzechInvest covering the period 2002-2014 is used for analysis of foreign investors´ source countries. Their cultural distance from the Czech Republic is measured based on Hofstede´s framework by using Kogut-Singh index and Euclide...

The paper was processed under the SGS grant-Crossborder migration of labour mobility as a consequence of the international companies´ localisation. Abstract: This article focuses on the quantification of the utility of the system of investment incentives in the case of six selected regions in the Czech Republic. Based on comparative analysis of inf...

The contribution presents the concept of the environment and natural resources protection in terms of different theoretical economic theories with a focus on the concept of neoclassical environmental economics, which are based on the fundamental principles of environmental valuation. The article describes the selected main methods of valuation the...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a relatively new theory of Entrepreneurial discovery of Israel Meir Kirzner as an alternative or supplement to mainstream economics as well as point at the importance of entrepreneurs in the market. Within individual parts of this paper is the theory of Entrepreneurial discovery compared with approaches of main...

This paper aims to quantify the value of foreign presence of foreign direct investment which gained investment incentive. This foreign direct investment is localized at the region NUTS 2 Northwest and NUTS 2 Northeast. The foreign presence is considered as one of the key determinants of creation of spillover effects. Despite the growth trend in the...

Příspěvek má za cíl zhodnotit vliv přímých zahraničních investic na okres Louny, který se potýká s vysokou nezaměstnaností a absencí tzv. strategického zaměstnavatele. Základní výzkumnou otázkou je, zda a především pak do jaké míry dokáží přímé zahraniční investice napomáhat k řešení problémů na trhu práce v tomto strukturálně postiženém regionu. N...