The question of public finance stability and the economic stability are widely discussed topics, not only in transitive and emerging economies, but also in developed countries. The aim of this paper is to find out and measure connections between the fiscal policy development and external...

We analyze effect of intraday information flow in three emerging EU stock markets-the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. We use five-minute intraday data on stock market index returns and 15 types of EU and U.S. macroeconomic announcements during 2004-2007. We measure each announcement as its...

This paper analyzes the effects of macroeconomic shocks on the government debt dynamics in an open economy using the analytical framework of Favero and Giavazzi (2007) extended to an open economy. Applying this modelling approach to the data for the Czech Republic, the authors derive some...

The article deals with a problem of changes in inventories, its variability and its synchronization with changing savings and import in the Czech Republic in 1999-2012. In theoretical part both macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of changes in inventories are discussed in the context of...

In various fields of macroeconomic modelling, researchers often face the problem of decomposing time series into trend component and cycle fluctuations. While there are several potentially useful methods to perform the task in question, Hodrick-Prescott (HP) fi lter seems to have remained...

The economic development points out the importance of the development study of sectors and branches of economics, because they can deepen or moderate volatility of the economic cycle. The article aims at mapping the rate of unemployment in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector in the Czech...

The article formulates the general political-economic possibilities for smoothing of business cycles under the realistic assumptions of the current credit-economy. Firstly it endeavours to explain the mechanism of the financial and real economy functioning with an emphasis on banking sector. The...

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the explanatory power of Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT). My dataset consists of US quarterly time series within the period 1978–2013. Following Wainhouse (1984), Keeler (2001) and others I employ Granger causality as one of the primary...

The article deals with a problem of changes in inventories, its variability and its synchronization with changing savings and import in the Czech Republic in 1999-2012. In theoretical part both macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of changes in inventories are discussed in the context of...

This article´s objective is to suggest and create the composite leading indicators and their importance for monitoring in a short term prediction of economic cycles in the V4. We describe in detail the methodologies of OECD and Eurostat, which deal with the prediction of the economic cycles in...