EC Library Guide on country knowledge: Czech Republic: Selected articles
Selected articles
- Determinants of profit repatriation: Evidence from the Czech Republic and OECD countries as a group
Vu, Hoang Duong and Pavelková, Drahomíra. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023, Vol.67.
The paper examines the determinants of FDI profit repatriation in the Czech Republic and OECD countries as a group from 2013 to 2019.
By applying the Lintner model about repatriation decisions at the national level, the paper finds the following findings. Firstly, the repatriation rate in the Czech Republic is higher than in most OECD countries. Secondly, financial development and investment opportunities negatively affect the payout ratio of OECD countries as a group, while the appreciation of host countries' currency and higher effective rates positively affect the payout ratio of OECD countries as a group. However, in the case of the Czech Republic, two factors that cause a higher payout ratio are financial development and anti-corruption enforcement. It implies that the Czech Republic should improve its financial market development and reduce the level of corruption to keep the profit from FDI in the country.
- Drivers of domestic politicisation of European issues: Explaining low politicisation of differentiated integration in Czechia
Smekal, Hubert and Havlík, Vratislav. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2023, Vol.31 (3).
This article contributes to the debate on domestic politicisation of EU issues by suggesting hitherto overlooked explanation of (non)politicisation.
This paper uses Czechia as an intriguing case in which the mainstream explanations of a low level of domestic politicisation of EU issues do not apply. The Czech case illustrates that, first, even in the context of high public Euroscepticism, EU issues do not necessarily become politicised, particularly so when the public does not consider them to be important. Second, high politicisation does not occur when there is a path dependency of a mismatch between positions of political parties and significant parts of their electorates on EU issues. Finally, the rise of catch-all populist parties prevents a high level of politicisation of EU issues.
- Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe
Bosák, Vojtěch, et al. Regional Studies, 2023, Vol.57 (8).
Europeanization affects policies in much of Europe, but has uneven impacts in different regions. The aim of this paper is to causally explain how and why actors reacted to the European Union policy.
We tested the presence of social learning and coercion mechanisms and how their operation was conditioned by policy capacities (contextual factors). Europeanization is traced through integrated territorial investment (ITI) implementation, a new EU Cohesion Policy tool. The Ostrava Metropolitan Region case study in Czechia revealed that national-level actors had responded dominantly to ITI by social learning and local actors with coercion.
- Modelling trade specialisation of Slovakia and Czechia in automobile industry
The journal of international trade & economic development, 2022, Vol.31 (2), p.181-203
This paper proposes an innovative approach to modelling trade specialisation of Slovakia and Czechia. These countries have a limited export structure concentrated mainly on machinery and transport equipment that require recent technologies and are subject to continuous automation. We aimed to identify factors that impact Slovakia's and Czechia's performance in the automobile industry on the EU market.
The paper shows compelling evidence of long-and-short-run asymmetry between trade specialisation and the real effective exchange rate in Slovakia. The results suggest that the Czech competitiveness in the automobile industry does not fall with a higher effective exchange rate. Other factors such as human capital and country size bolster the theoretical assumptions and show the over specialisation of both countries and chances to be less specialised with higher population growth. This paper's findings have a broader context and application for countries focusing primarily on manufacturing road vehicles.
- On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check
Hosnedlová, Pavla and Pitrová, Markéta. Journal of Public Policy, 2023, Vol.43 (3).
The government plays first fiddle in European Union decision-making processes, but a role in EU governance is also performed by the national parliament, which has gained additional competence to submit reasoned opinions based on the subsidiarity principle and participate in the political dialogue with the European Commission.
The authors trace the policy-shaping and policy-taking processes and explore the impact of parliamentary and government involvement in EU policy-making on belated and timely transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic. This comparative analysis of six directives, of which three were transposed on time and the other three from the same policy areas not, shows that the connection between ex-ante and ex-post stages still seems weak, and thus, greater involvement by parliament in EU affairs does not alone affect the time of transposition. Instead, the capacity of the government, determined partly by the salience of the legislation and its characteristics, is the main explanation for the transposition delays.
- Peripheralization processes as a contextual source of populist vote choices: evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany
Dvořák, Tomáš and Zouhar, Jan. East European Politics and Societies, 2023, Vol.37 (3).
The existing research on contextual sources of support for populist parties has revolved around two factors: the unemployment rate and the size of immigrant groups. Conceived as residential characteristics, observation of these factors has been seen to increase support for radical parties in Western European countries.
We identify different contextual (non-individual) drivers of support for populist parties in the post-communist Czech Republic (Czechia). Based on a large sample of voters (n = 23,734), we identify the (contextual) effect of economic hardship and demographic decline on support for populist parties. We interpret these results as supporting the theory of regional peripheralization. This peripheralization has been identified to be particularly strong in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and has widened regional socio-economic disparities in this region. We show how these processes have affected voting behaviour and support for political parties. In a second step, we use a sample from eastern Germany (n = 524) to test whether peripheralization affects support for populist parties in other postcommunist regions. The results confirm the hypothesis also in the case of east Germany. Our study contributes to the debate by pointing out a novel mechanism that leads to increased support for radical and moderate populist parties.
- Promoting cross-border cooperation through cross-border central places: Strategic town-twinning on the Bavarian-Czech border reconsidered
Bloßfeldt, Stefan. European Planning Studies, 2023, Vol.31 (8).
Since the early 1990s, several adjacent pairs of communes on the Bavarian borders with the Czech Republic and Austria have been identified as Cross-Border Central Places (CBCP). So far, the significance of CBCP as an innovative amendment of central place theory and long-established example of cross-border spatial planning remains virtually unstudied.
This article analyses different versions of the Bavarian federal development plan and introduces CBCP as a planning instrument originally aimed at the realization of functional complementarities. By studying the concept's various redefinitions over the last two decades, I review CBCP as a strategic facilitator of cross-border cooperation at a local level. Empirical results from a focus group with mayors from all Bavarian and Czech municipalities representing a CBCP are provided. They indicate that the instrument's practical significance is limited by a rather domestic implementation, lacking local resources and an insufficient coordination across different scales of interaction.
- Rights of beneficiaries: Building foundations and trusts, a Czech perspective
Ronovská, Kateřina, Pihera, Vlastimil and Dobrovolná, Eva. Trusts & Trustees, 2023, Vol.29 (6).
The aim of this article is first to briefly outline the current Czech legal regulation of the position of beneficiaries of trust funds and private foundations and the breadth of knowledge in this area.
The authors point out crucial questions and also suggest possible directions for further consideration, many of which are well known in other jurisdictions where the possibility to create trusts/trust-like and foundation structures for private purposes has been introduced. Hopefully, the Czech perspective (and experience so far) can also be of use to other legal systems which are dealing with similar issues.
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