Topics

We are inviting submissions of both theoretical and empirical research papers on issues of interest in the field of Economic Issues and Public Finance, Finance and Investment, Business, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups, as well as a special topic for CEFE 2015 Health care management:

• Finance and Investment

Topic Finance and Investment covers the allocation of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty:

• Personal finance (protection against unforeseen personal events, transference of families across generation, effects of tax policies, effects of credit on individuals, development of a savings plan, planning a secure financial future, etc.)
• Corporate finance (capital structure, capital budgeting, business valuation, financial modelling, cash-, inventory- and debtors management, investment management, financial risk management, etc.)
• Financial services (financial intermediary, equity financing, institutional investors, pension funds, private investors etc.)
• Financial economics (prices, interest rates, asset pricing, investment theory, financial markets, financial models and principles, etc.)


• Economic Issues and Public Finance

Topic Economic Issues and Public Finance covers recent trends in the theoretical and empirical research over a wide area of macroeconomic and microeconomic topics.

• Fiscal and monetary policy issues and challenges during the crisis
• Globalization and global imbalances
• Taxation and public spending
• International financial architecture
• Consumer choice and behavioural economics
• Public goods, externalities and the size of government
• Poverty and income inequality
• Lessons learned from economic history
• Economic theory on the crossroad


• Business, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups

Business, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups cover studies of general issues related to business, economic issues and problems related to business organization, management, and strategy, current trends and challenges in entrepreneurship:

• Actual problems of SMEs
• Actual Business requirements and strategies
• Inclination to entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship education, Social entrepreneurship
• Start-ups needs and potential
• Incubators and incubation problems and activities
• Financing of Start-ups


• Specific topic for 2015: Health Care Management

This special section is supported by
• VEGA Project No. 1/0929/14 “Multidimensional economic and financial evaluation of the implementation process and the use of one day health care and quantification of the financial impact on the health care system in the Slovak Republic“.
• VEGA Project No. 1/0986/15 "Proposal of the dimensional models of the management effectiveness of ICT and information systems in health facilities in Slovakia and the economic-financial quantification of their effects on the health system in Slovakia"
• Research Project EkF TUKE – GESITI/HOSPITALS – MZSR – NCZI (Slovakia – CTI Brasil) 2013-2015.

Health Care Management covers actual problems in Health care systems of different countries:

• Evaluation of health policies within specific countries, efficiency measurement and management of health care systems, efficiency of health care institutions, e-health
• Optimization of processes within health care institutions, quality measurement and management in health care
• Issues of ICT and information system in health care institutions, socio-economic issues linked to long-term health care in specific countries in connection to the proposed impact of "global aging" of the population
• Unitary and plural system issues of health care insurance in selected countries