23^rd international conference ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY 

The conference was held on March 25 – 26, 2021. It crosses traditional discipline boundaries and involves a wide variety of interactions ranging from traditional academic disciplines or schools of thought to the reality of business. Many of the issues discussed provide innovative ideas and combine the best academic thinking with the industry expertise development in financial services, public sector/government, information and communications technologies.

The Book of Abstracts is available for download here. 

Keynote Speakers

Makram El-Shagi		Helena Horská		Bela Gipp
Professor at Henan University in China, Director of the "Center for Financial Development and Stability"		Chief Economist of Raiffeisenbank		Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Conference Fields

• Economic Policy
• Finance
• Macro and Microeconomics
• Accounting and Taxation
• Socioeconomics
• Marketing and Management
• Statistics and Econometrics
• Information Sciences

Conference Organization

The conference is held in English. 

Authors are welcome to submit original and unpublished research papers. Best papers will be invited for a submission to selected journals.

Conference participants are expected to serve as discussants of a paper of other conference participant.

Conference participants will receive a printed version of the Book of Abstracts. An on-line version of the Book of Abstracts will be available on the conference website.

The conference will be held in online and onsite format. 

Conference Outputs:

Selected papers will be considered for special issues in journals indexed in Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index) and Scopus databases. 

Journals: Eastern European Economics, EJOBSAT

Only the high-quality papers successfully passing a review process will be considered for publishing.

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.

Conference Fees

1. ACTIVE participation

• EARLY online:  2.900 CZK / 115 EUR*

EARLY registration fee is applied if the participant register by 1st December 2020, 23:59 at the latest. 

• STANDARD online: 3.800 CZK / 150 EUR*

• Additional paper fee: 2.000 CZK / 80 EUR*

2. PASSIVE participation

• Online: 1.500 CZK / 60 EUR*

Registration Fees include:

The registration fee for active online participation includes online presentation of the submitted paper, online access to all sessions and plenary session, review process, online version of Book of Abstracts and programme, organizational and technical costs.

The registration fee for passive online participation includes online access to all sessions and plenary session, online version of Book of Abstracts and programme, organizational and technical costs.

The additional paper fee is for authors with more than one paper, thus, the regular fee for active participants is applied for the first submitted paper and additional paper fee is applied for the second submitted paper. Each submitted paper must have different content in accordance with publication ethics. One paricipant can present maximum of 2 papers.

Registration is required for all participants attending the conference.

Important Dates

Scientific Conference Board

• Josef C. Brada (Arizona State University, USA)
• František Dařena (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Radim Farana (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin University of Friedrichshafen, Germany)
• David Hampel (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Peter Huber (Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria)
• Josef Jablonský (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jitka Janová (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Svatopluk Kapounek (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Danuše Nerudová (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• David Procházka (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Martina Rašticová (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Daniel Stavárek (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)
• Jana Stávková (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• David Tuček (Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic)
• Pavel Žufan (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)

Organisation Board

Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic

• Svatopluk Kapounek
• Hana Vránová
• Dominika Doubková
• Andrea Prudilová
• Barbora Šiklová

Contact: ecos@mendelu.cz

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