ETAP 2017 – Economic Theory and Practice / Ekonomická teória a prax

"ETAP 2017" organized on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, under the aegis os Assoc. Prof. Ing. Vladimír Hiadlovský, PhD., the rector of the University / organizovaná pri príležitosti 40. výročia založenia Ekonomickej fakulty Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici pod záštitou rektora Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici prof. Ing. Vladimíra Hiadlovského, PhD.

The conference ECONOMIC THEORY AND PRACTICE 2017 [ETAP 2017] is devoted to contemporary theoretical and practical issues of economics. The ambition of the conference is to gather representatives of academic community and economic practice in order to achieve a synergy. On one hand, the conference is intended to provide a mechanism of mutual dissemination of scientific knowledge among those for whom it may be beneficial in their decisions and everyday business; and on the other hand, it gives a special opportunity for those whose professional life is tied with economics to discuss the problems they face. The conference is designated to cover major fields of economics and might be attractive to scholars, researchers, corporate and government executives, managers, graduates or any professionals who have graduated from a study program in economics.

Topics:

• Business management and marketing
• Competitiveness and economic growth
• Creative and smart development of places
• Current challenges to Macroeconomics
• Current challenges to Microeconomics
• Effectiveness and innovations in public services
• Finance, banking and investment
• Financial issues of territorial units
• Innovations as a factor of sustainable business development
• Interdisciplinarity in economics
• New challenges of regional development and public administration in the 21th century
• Pension and public finance
• Public economics and public policy
• Small and medium entrepreneurship
• Standardization and regulatory policies
• Sustainable and competitive tourism development
• Tourism destination management and governance
• Volunteer tourism

The chairman of ORGANIZING COMMITEE

Assoc. Prof. Ing. Vladimír Úradníček, Ph.D.