This paper focuses on the term structure of interest rates. We show that the term structure of interest rates is a static function that relates the term to maturity to the yield to maturity for a sam- ple of bonds at a given point of time. We a...

The article focuses on the tourist destination attractiveness. Foreign literature offers four main approaches to the tourist destination attractiveness research. Geographical and presentational approaches are oriented towards supply side. The first offers objective, the second subjective regard.&#x...

The starting point of this article is the comparison of selected aspects of Czech and Japanese spa industries, especially the historical roots, the legislative framework, the development of num- ber of spas in recent decades and the concept of traditional Czech a Japanese Spa...

Protection of consumer rights is an inseparable part of any government policy. Consumer's rights and their perception by individual subjects are the factor which can influence company business strategy in a substantial way. Sometimes it is possible to get an impression that&#...

The work is focused on approaches to waste paper processing. Waste management is an im- portant component of managerial decision-making in businesses and in the public administration sector. Environmental legislation creates continual pressure on finding new solutions that are both ec...

Czech expert literature in the field of business ethics is not so wide as in Western Europe but business or professional ethics has become a vital part of study programmes of faculties with non-humanistic studies. Business ethics pays close attention to the international...

Organizational justice is argued to be related to several work attitudes and behaviors such as job satisfaction, turnover intention, absenteeism, organizational commitment, workplace aggression, job stress, and managerial and organizational trust. A great deal of research also addressed work&#x...

The contribution deals with the economics of education and with the approaches to its optimisa- tion on the basis of the field research. From the view of the education we can say that the macro- -economic approach involves a moddeling of economic growth in an education.&#...

Article deals with consumer expenditures development. Concretely with a potential which mar- keting research disposes with within these questions. a brief literature overview shows consumer expenditures as a result of product and service seeking, from that consumers expect satisfying of&#x...

Innovations represent an underlying element of competitiveness in global economies. In the process of innovation building, spatial relations play an important part. Generally, the regional and local levels are emphasised because of the importance of actors’ interactions in the process....

Current economic crisis is often compared to Great Depression in thirties. Apart from its place of origin in United States, more similarities can be tracked down. Both started in financial markets turbulence with its repercussions in decline in industrial production as well ...

The Lisbon Strategy was initiated by the European Union in 2000 in order to turn the European Union into the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. The Lisbon Strategy recognized the open method of co-ordination (OMC) as the EU-level&...