Original title: Determination of firm boundaries: Influence of regulations and rule of law on firm size
Translated title: Determination of firm boundaries: Influence of regulations and rule of law on firm size
Authors: Dočkal, Ondřej ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Schwarz, Jiří (referee)
Document type: Bachelor's theses
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: Study of determinants of firm size is important for policy making and economic theory, because much of economic growth takes place within firms and firms are prevailing form of organisation of production units in modern economies. Theory o↵ers contradictory views on e↵ect of quality of regulations and rule of law on firm size. Better regulatory quality in the environment of post-soviet countries enables firms to become larger. In the case of rule of law, the relationship seems to be rather fragile and of a more complex nature with ambiguous e↵ects, hence the matter re- mains subject of future research. Regulatory quality and rule of law explain only very little part of variations in growth rates of firms. Keywords: firm size determination, quality of regulations, rule of law, industrial organisation Character count: 73 717 Abstrakt Studium determinantů velikosti firem je důležité pro vytváření politik i ekonomickou teorii, protože velká část ekonomického růstu je způsobena růstem existujících firem a firmy jsou převažující formou organizace produkčních jednotek v moderních eko- nomikách. Teorie přináší protichůdné pohledy na vliv kvality regulace a právního státu na velikost firem. V prostředí postsovětských zemí je růst kvality regulace spojený s růstem velikosti...
Keywords: firm size determination; industrial organisation; quality of regulations; rule of law; determinace velikosti firem; kvalita pra ́vn ́ıho sta ́tu; kvalita regulace; pr ̊umyslov ́a organizace

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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