Accession into euro area is conditioned (among others) by stable low inflation rate and stable currency exchange rate (participation in ERM IIII). Treaty on EU defines obligation to maintain free international capital flow. It concerns three objectives and theory of “impossible trinity”...

The article summarizes recognized empirical knowledge about the causes of currency crises, making use of several extensive empirical studies carried out in the late 1990s, and examines select theoretical models of such causation. The results are divided into three levels of causes: general risk...

In the course of exchange rate development history of the countries taking part and evaluated in ERM or ERM II before they entered the euro-area there was no depreciating evolution with a trend to currency crisis at all. Fundamental indicators of these economies, partly owing to the compliance...

The objective of this essay is to access the expected impact of the euro substitution for the Czech crown on exports of small and medium sized enterprises. The assessment has led to a theoretical definition of the transmission mechanism concerning the impact of the currency change on exports. It...