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- ItemKey determinants of the quality of business environment of SMEs in the Czech Republic(Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic, 2017-06-15) Virglerová, Zuzana; Homolka, Lubor; Smrčka, Luboš; Lazányi, Kornélia; Klieštik, Tomáš; Ekonomická fakultaThe business environment is determined by various obstacles the business owners have to deal with in the course of their work. This article aims to create a model of the quality of business environment, define the key determinants of this model, and quantify the correlations among the individual determinants in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic. Partial results of a survey carried out at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín in 2015 were used for the analysis. On the basis of previous surveys, four determinants were set that influence the quality of business environment (State, Public perception, Financial markets and banks, Business risks). From these four areas, questions were selected and asked to business owners in the Czech Republic in the abovementioned survey. Links were identified among selected questions asked to the owners. These links led to adjusting the business environment to four determinants: State and public perception, Banks and their approach to business, Knowledge of rules and principles, and financial risks and their increase in post-crisis time. Subsequently, correlations were identified among these determinants. It was ascertained that the knowledge of the conditions of the financial system leads to a positive perception of the banks’ approach in terms of external finance. Moreover, a positive influence of the banking sector on how the business owners perceive financial risks was identified. Another important result of the survey is the fact that business owners who have the necessary knowledge of the financial market perceive financial risks as less intense compared to those lacking such knowledge of the financial market.
- ItemSovereign Credit Ratings and Asian Financial Markets(Technická Univerzita v Liberci, ) Pervaiz, Khansa; Virglerová, Zuzana; Khan, Muhammad Asif; Akbar, Usman; Popp, József; Ekonomická fakultaEach region/country seeks to become more efficient to gain the confidence of potential investors. Most of the Asian economies are categorized as emerging markets, where the role of financial markets has even become more intensified to provide financial services to increasing economic and financial activities. Asian financial market has momentously suffered during the Asian, and global financial crisis. The mass destruction was mainly caused due to the mounting uncertainty, which spillover throughout the region, where investors lost their confidence. Considering the pivotal economic role of financial markets, and implications evolve due to sovereign credit rating announcements, this study aims to model the role of sovereign credit rating announcements by Standard and Poor’s, and Moody’s on financial market development of the Asian region. For 24 Asian countries/regions, we perform a regression analysis on sovereign credit rating changes based on financial market development index and its factors. The findings of Driscoll Kraay’s robust estimator reveals that improvement in sovereign credit rating score enhances the financial market development in the region. Moreover, we applied several robustness checks, such as alternative estimators, alternative measures, and three sub-dimensions of financial market development. According to the findings from these robustness checks, the positive impact of sovereign credit ratings on financial market development in the region is robust. Unlike prior literature (which is confined to the event study approach), this study utilizes the historical grades to establish the relationship under the standard error clustering approach. Due to the diversity of investors’ speculations, we propose a micro-level extension of the present model to overcome a difference in country policy.