H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic AgentsReturn

Paper focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises in context of their perception of the business environment. Small and medium-sized enterprises need for their development and operation a favourable business environment and a level of support in business activities, both from the state and from their environment. The aim of the research is to identify and verify how small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic perceive the public's attitude toward their business activities, the level of administrative burden and business conditions created by the state. Based on the survey, it was found that despite the measures taken by state to improve conditions for business, respondents don't feel the improvement of business conditions or reduction of administrative burden.

The scrappage scheme became one of the most discussed instruments within the aggregate demand stimulation during the world economic crisis 2008-2009. The aim of this paper is to suggest an equation using the available data to estimate the efficiency of the scrappage premium. The initial part of the paper introduces the history of the scrappage premium (since 1970s) and also important papers dealing with the previous schemes. The survey of significant texts focusing on the demand modelling is a base for our suggestion of the automobile demand equation. The suggested equation contents four independent variables: disposable income, car price index, price index of the basic complement (which means fuel) and a dummy variable recording a (non)implementation of the scrappage scheme.