The relatively long term period of stability before the present crises called even "Great Moderation" or "Golden Age of Central Banking" indicated that the infl ation targeting was a success story. As of 2008 a lot has changed and the debate over "Leaning against the wind or Clean afterwards?"...

We survey theories of impacts of budgetary rules in the budget process, review empirical evidence and on the basis of comparative studies attempt to design the optimal shape of the Czech budgetary rules. The theoretical part focuses on conventional and non-intuitive effects of spending caps and...

This article presents the approach to the tax reform in the Czech Republic and uses the normative and the teleology theory view. The impulse of this text we can find in lame solution of the public finance reform, in which the elements of the basic methodology thinking are often missing there....