Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of luxury buyers' awareness of a luxury brand's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities together with its individual brand-related sustainable dimensions (in terms of economic, societal and environmental) and luxury values...

The Czech economy entered the global crisis with no major imbalances. Importantly, it did not suffer from the FX mortgage problem, unlike its regional peers. This was mainly a reflection of its early disinflation process accomplished under the inflation targeting regime from 1998. As a result,...

This study examines the use of the exchange rate by the Czech National Bank as a monetary policy instrument at the zero lower bound on interest rates. It provides a review of the economic literature on unconventional monetary policy instruments and particularly on the possibility of using the...

This paper will analyze theoretical concept of country of origin as a brand and its influence on brand image of products originating from the country. It will deeper review the role of media in establishing the perception of country of origin in general and its potential use as a tool...

This paper concentrates on describing the available empirical findings on monetary policy transmission in the Czech Republic. Besides the overall impact of monetary policy on inflation and output, it is useful to study its individual channels, in particular the interest rate channel, the...

Central Europe, due to its history, is not perceived as a region from which a luxury brand could originate while luxury is traditionally connected to Western European countries (such as France, Italy or Switzerland). Country of origin (COO) plays an important role in perception of any brand but...

This paper will analyze theoretical concept of country of origin as a brand and its influence on brand image of products originating from the country. It will deeper review the role of media in establishing the perception of country of origin in general and its potential use as a tool...

We survey discretionary measures of Czech fiscal policy in the period 2001-2011 and analyze their episodes and macroeconomic impacts. We use bottom-up and top-down methods to identify fiscal discretion and we compare the results with Kalman filtering. Fiscal discretion is found to be used...