This article provides a summary of the refining industry development in the Czech Republic. It attempts to estimate tariffs charged by national transport company MERO and compare them with tariffs charged by other East European transit countries. National energy security in the matter of crude...

This article deals with methodological aspects of utilities´ regulation. First, basic principles of regulation and specialities of firms operating in utilities´ industries are explained. Next, the article discusses three basic regulation methods, including cost-of-service (COS) regulation,...

The paper deals with selected issues prevalent in the environment of regulated gas distribution. Regulation which ensures for investors an up-front known rate of return lead in valuation of an individual investment projects to obstacles we do not meet in other fully liberal markets. Solution of...

The purpose of this paper is to create a financial fragility model for the Czech financial sector. We adapt the Goodhart-Tsomocos model which is based on general equilibrium with incomplete markets, money and default. The calibration of the model is based on publicly available data from the...

The paper focuses on how risk management may influence the value of a company. Situation is discussed with models of Modigliani - Miller - Fama and their assumptions in the background. After the basic explications of the afore mentioned models and of the decision- making rule for investments,...

The TFP approach (TFP method) is one of the methods of performance-based regulation whose aim is to increase the efficiency of regulated companies. This article presents an overview of current international experience with the application of TFP benchmarking in the price regulation of energy...