The paper analyzes how central banks pay attention to foreign exchange exposure and the profit function in pursuing monetary policy. The results of the paper document that in practice, central banks do not take the microeconomic approach based on profit maximization in making decisions on the...

This paper analyzes the development of the external balance in five Central and East European countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The paper applies, expands, and empirically verifies the ideas of life-cycle theory in the area of the effects of foreign direct...

Monetary and fiscal policy should be paired with the economic objectives on which they have the most influence. The authors have applied Mundell's principle of effective market classification (EMC) to the conditions of the Czech economy - a small open economy with a managed floating exchange...

The paper seeks to identify strategies of commercial banks in response to higher capital requirements of Basel III reform and its phase-inches It focuses on a sample of nine EU emerging market countries and picks up 5 largest banks in each country assessing their response. The paper finds that...

This paper discusses the strategy of the Czech economic policy as regards the current enlargement process of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The authors discuss the validity of the Maastricht criteria for the new European Union (EU) member countries, as well as the risks and...

This paper presents empirical evidence on money and output in the Czech Republic. The analysis of the effects of monetary phenomena on the real economy focuses heavily on evidence from vector autoregressions (VARs). The paper also examines the Granger causality between the real money supply and...