Faculty of Economics and Administration
The Faculty of Economics and Administration was established in 1990. With approximately 4,000 students in Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees programmes it focuses on economics, economic information systems, financial management, economic policy and management, national economics and business management, regional development and management through public finance.
Contact information
www.econ.muni.cz
www.muni.cz/research
Lipová 507/41a
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 549 49 1710
Fax: +420 549 49 1720
research@econ
municz
Detailed information on R&D areas and projects:
- Analysis and identification of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model
- Examination of the competitiveness of enterprises
- Examination of the innovational potentiality of regions and the evaluation of innovational region’s profiles
- Non-profit sector and its economic behaviour
- Economy of network branches
- Financing and organization of territorial administration and the evaluation of development programs and projects
- Analysis of public and social policy
- Financial market research
- Modernization of the public administration at the regional and municipal level
- Collaborative foreign entities
Analysis and identification of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium modelback
The research is based on new theoretical trends in mainstream macroeconomics: theory of dynamic systems and methods of Bayesian estimation. The aim of the research is to explain the influence of external shocks in the Czech economy and to analyze the transmission mechanism. The research is also focused on the degree of sensitivity and adaptability of basic macroeconomic variables to the shocks.
Selected project solved in this area:
Examination of the competitiveness of enterprisesback
In this research there is analyzed the economic performance of enterprises. The analysis is based on the empirical inquiry using the method of statistical pattern recognition. For the research we use our own methodology of regional evaluation of the quality of entrepreneurial environment and its competitiveness.
Selected project solved in this area:
Examination of the innovational potentiality of regions and the evaluation ofinnovational region’s profilesback
The regional research is focused on the quality of entrepreneurial environment including the innovational potential. It is concerned with structural aspects of spatial division of labor and also with the innovational potential of regions. Further, there is analyzed the direct and indirect subvention of competitiveness with emphasize on the stimulation of innovational efficiency.
Selected project solved in this area:
Non-profit sector and its economic behaviourback
The research is focused on the analysis of economic behaviour of the non-profit sector and its relationship with other actors of the economic environment. The chief topic is the concept of efficiency in specific conditions of public and private non-profit sector.
Selected projects solved in this area:
- Center for non-profit sector research
- Revision of the non-profit sector theories as recourse of the non-profit sector public policy
Economy of network branchesback
The research is focused in the long run on the railway transport from the economist’s point of view. Currently, it concerns mainly with the competitive advantage and competition within railway transport.
Selected project solved in this area:
Financing and organization of territorial administration and the evaluation ofdevelopment programs and projectsback
Selected project solved in this area:
Analysis of public and social policyback
Selected project solved in this area:
Financial market researchback
Selected project solved in this area:
Modernization of the public administration at the regional and municipal levelback
Selected projects solved in this area:
- Implementation of new instruments of public expenditures management on regional level in the Czech Republic
- Measurement of Citizens Satisfaction with Public Sector Services as Integra Part of Quality management in Public Sector Organizations
- The analysis of municipal budgets efficiency in relation to the environmental protection
Collaborative foreign entitiesback
- Center for Civil Society Studies [US]
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen [DE]
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen [DE]
- Governmental Council for Non-State Non-Profit Organizations CIVITALIS [HU]
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Non-profit Organisations (NPO-Institute) [AT]
- Radboud University Nijmegen [NL]
- Universita degli Studi di Verona [IT]
- Universität Regensburg [DE]
- Université Catholique de Lille [FR]
- Université de Rennes I [FR]
- Université Pierre Mendes France – Grenoble 2 [FR]
- University of Basel [CH]
- University of Huddersfield [UK]
- University of Jyväskylä [FIN]
- University of Oulu [FIN]
- University of Victoria [CA]
- Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien [AT]
